Lions vs Con-act. Want to see Dave's Charles Bronson in action.

And there's a girl ref. Sweet.

10 minutes of uneventful back and forth so far.

Lions over through Renzo du Plessis. Good handling, good try.

Wolhuter slices the conversion like it's a chocolate cake. 5-0 Lions.

Mills botches a clear try-scoring opportunity with an unforced forward pass.

Wolhuter penalty. 8-0.

Dave's man Bronson with a terrible forward pass with the Lions on attack.

Kriel with a good take but another wayward pass ruins the Lions momentum. They still have it though. Now penalized for going off their feet in the ruck.

Lions doing some good attacking, just can't keep it going.

This girl is in charge…seen her before, quite competent.

Bronson had a bit of a Death Wish there with a late no arms tackle on Jennings but ref ignores it.

Connies forward pass saves the Lions some possible trouble.

Penalty right in front, should be 3 more for the Lions. Indeed, 11-0.

Okay game but lots of errors and everything feels kinda flat. Bronson has been a nothing burger. Not sure if I'll watch the second half.

All Bronson has done so far is throw a Breakheart Pass.

Wolhuter penalty. 14-0.

Yellow for Du Plessis.

Con-act with an easy maul try.

Connacht over but it's ruled out for obstruction.

Might have been obstruction. Holly cancels the try.

This girl is going to make a stern mother

Kriel with a superb offload from the ground keeps the Lions going, but then they knock it.

Poor defending from Connacht and Edwil vd Merwe in for an easy try.

21-0.

Edwill makes it look easy. One on one you don't stop our little wings.

Hang on . . . TMO checking a dangerous tackle from Henco . . . "glancing chin contact" makes it no try, penalty Connacht instead. Bit soft if you ask me.

Oh wait, Holly and her two stooges are looking at something. Yeah I though Henko was flirting with fate with that tackle, but there doesn't seem to be head contact.

Yeah that's bullshit but hey, the players know how things are by now.

There’s more physicality in soccer these days….

It's a big downer when good tries get cancelled for something that happened so far back.

It has an insidious effect….when your team scores a try these days you don’t give your emotions free rein …you have to check the ref. It changes the game for fans.

For such a frantic game there's very little productive happening. We run a bit and lose it, then you run a bit and lose it and then we run a bit again.

And again the Lions lose it while rumbling towards the tryline.

Bronson is making his tackles at least. Another wild Lions pass into nowhere.

Not much energy in this game

Good play by the Lions down the left side of the field and Pretorius scores. 19-0 with the kick to come.

Renzo du Plessis has been my fresh face of the game so far. He's been busy and carries strongly.

Good carry by Cairns to engage three defenders and open the tryline. Or whoever it was, looked like an 8 on the back but I couldn't see properly.

Well worked try by the Lions. All our teams are offloading instinctively, I wonder if the Boks will finally be encouraged to do so.

Wolhuter pushes the conversion like it's his mother-in-law's car with an abyss in front of it.

Connacht over. 19-7 with 6 minutes to go.