Earl Jantjies dropped to the bench in CurryCup for the Lions

Coach Johan Ackermann has made eight other changes to the run-on XV that featured in Johannesburg last weekend, which includes two new props in Jacques van Rooyen and Ruan Dreyer, and a new locking pairing in Stephan Greeff and Hugo Kloppers.

Flank Derick Minnie leads the team.

Golden Lions – 15 Chrysander Botha, 14 Deon Helberg, 13 Stokkies Hanekom, 12 Dylan des Fountain, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Marnitz Boshoff, 9 Guy Cronjé, 8 Willie Britz, 7 Warwick Tecklenburg, 6 Derick Minnie (c), 5 Hugo Kloppers, 4 Stephan Greeff, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Martin Bezuidenhout, 1 Jacques van Rooyen.
Subs: 16 Francois du Toit, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Lambert Groenewald, 19 Jaco Kriel, 20 Tian Meyer, 21 Elton Jantjies, 22 Lionel Cronjé/Robert de Bruyn.

Earl???

Trying to be funny, huh???

Well he does kinda make me think of useless Rose!!!

Marnitz was good all season long. He deserves to be retained at 10.

A little surprised to see vd Linde featuring ... shows you how desperate we are.

I remember there being nothing special about either. Great boys to get on the piss with in Umhlanga when I lived there and saw them around but they have just have never struck me as top level players. Should have ended for them at u19/21 level. Maybe even mess around in a team like the Griffons or SWD but they are simply not what I expect from a first class player. They are never going to challenge for higher honours. In fact, they barely tread water to make the match 22. Maybe its time to pull through the next crop of talent. Some real live wires that offer much more. I cant help but think these are 2 positions wasted!