Final time!

Go LIONS. 
Good luck both teams...and Peyper!

 Saders score!

 0-7

 Soft try after Janjies spills the pill...and he puts the restart straight in touch.

 Another Sader score!...Was Basque right?....GO LI ON'S!

 Conversion missed ...0-12

 Now Mapoooo fck up!....oh boy!

 Looks like the same scenario as last week.
The quota loaded SA team is out of their depth in this game with the NZ side dominating everything.
Fatigue is going to be the key element once again.

 Heavy pressure from the NZ side. They look more conservative in their effort though.

 3- 12

 Saders look unstoppable....go Lions!

 Long range penalty kick. This SA team is only kicks up to now.
The NZ side is efficient on the collision line.

 The collision line?

 A parody of a scrum to help the SA side away from their goal line. The ref inputs.

 ???

 The NZ side shows signs of fatigue. Going to be 9 long minutes to hold on.

 And a brick pass sent by the SA 9. NZ side trying to eat the clock.

 red card.

 SA ref under pressure. That is a red card.

 SA ref did not find a way out of an obvious red card. That is a red card. Crowd is silenced.
4 week suspension for this reckless action.

 3-15 half time. The quota loaded SA side, boosted in the finals through undeserved advantage, is down to 14 men.

Not a very good game so far.  Lions are jittery. Losing Kwaqqa to a red could be the death knell.
Maybe bring Mapoe off, and Johan Van Rensburg on. 

 The SA crowd  booed out the NZ side kicker on the last penalty kick. Maybe already turning to sour losing SA style.

Hate these red cards....no question thie Smith card was the right decision, but for that to quite possibly decide the whole tournament is very disappointing.

Things are getting embarrassing. The Crusaders are owning the ruck.  Sn otty Crotty is getting better with age.

 The SA unsurprisingly looks helpless, deprived of any idea, unable to build momentum.
The NZ side is managing the rest of the game. They want to hit on the counter, sparing their strength, they are fully aware that the altitude, the journey fatigue and the jet lag are what killed a very superior NZ side during the semi final.

 15 minutes to go. After a SA try, the NZ side gathered to determine the approach, legs are heavy.

 Fatigue is this SA side only way to exist. They are indubiously inferior rugby players but the fatigue is crushing the NZ. New try for SA side.

8 minutes to go.

 Good fight back by Lions subs

 What a blunder from the SA side 9. He shows he is a quota player by all the meaning of the term.
Two minutes to go.

Well done Crusaders. The best team during the season, and deserved winners.
The forward pack of the Crusaders dominated the Lions for much of the game.
This was like the Springbok backline vs the All Black forwards.The best lineout forward outwitted the Lions lineout. 

Snotty Crotty gets man of the match. 

 Congrats Saders....if there was ever a team worthy of winning the title in the republic, it's the Saders...Lions did very well with 14 men for half the match.

The Saders were seriously out of gas during the last 20 minutes, but had built a winning lead. A fine Lions fight back.....this team never gives up. .. Congrats to both teams, especially the Saders.

 It is done, the NZ side is victorious. These men will go down in history as heroes who managed to overcome a quota loaded side, boosted in the final because SA would throw a tantrum otherwise and given undeserved advantages to support their delusionary claim as proficient rugby players.

Justice is served.

 The best team during the season, and deserved winners.

If they were the best team during the season , how comes they were not given the home advantage.

Oh, wait, SA must be kept into the game and painted at a rugby level they do not have. That's how.

By the way, the culprits in this SA side of this historical failure, being unable to win against an opponent that got all odds stacked against them, are obviously SA non white players.

 It would seem that  adversity breeds grit eh ? We saw that from both sides today well done .Yee Har Crusties !

I have not watched the game and have just seen the result. I can therefore not comment on the red card. I do have a view on the red card, though. Of course there are many who are totally against players being sent off and every time after a red card, in a major game, we have the same old argument all over the show, i.e. the idea is that the game was meant to be about 15 men against 15. Of course all kinds of solutions will be on offer again. I do not agree at all. The argument is always that the team should not be penalised due to the "stupidity" of one player. Thing is that there are no issues when the team is compromised when a player is "stupid enough" to concede a penalty or a scrum or a free kick, or if the team have to be one man down for 10 minutes due to the "stupidity" of one player. But, heaven forbid, if the team is one man down until the end of the game. Fact is that rugby is a team sport and all actions by individual players have an influence on the team collectively.

A red card is a stupid way to decide a final. We would have liked to beat the Lions with their full squad on the field -->that way, they have no excuses. That is how real men play rugby. 

 Cloudy

 Just finished watching the game congrats to the Crusaders, well done boys. Lions really gave it their all and it was a fast paced game that was good to watch & fit into the Lions strategy. 
If the game was played with both teams having 15 men the Crusaders would have been hard pressed to win this. They were really exhausted for the last 20 minutes. Fortunately they had built a good lead. They played very well and deserve to be champions! What an achievement for Robertson!!