Lions

Leo Cullen speaking about it this week.

He's obviously an incredible talent, a really good player, captain of all sorts, Ireland and the Lions.

But what, can you see him, if he goes really well tomorrow, can you see someone saying, well, why not? Have him in there in the back row or is it a case where this is where he's playing in blue of Leinster and if they need him in Ireland colours after 60 minutes, don't know how that works, but he would play it.

Can you actually see him one day starting in that eight jersey or

We saw that last year when they went to South Africa.

They got a really good victory over the Sharks, wasn't it?

Tested the Lions too, they didn't win.

Yeah,

The only disappointment came in Scotland.

The Lions lost to Edinburgh.

Edinburgh topped the table on 19 points.

Glasgow on 18.

Stormers are fourth, both on 16 points.

The Sharks are fifth on 15.

The Lions have slipped to 11th on nine points outside the playoff positions.

But really tough for those boys.

So, yeah, I guess to see him...

I guess, keep going through such a tough season with the Lions and, you know, showing a lot of resilience.

It's cool to see him, yeah, back in the All Blacks for the last game of the Bledisloe.

Yeah,

South Africa's four United Rugby Championship teams will all be aiming to strengthen their positions in the top half of the standings this weekend.

The Sharks face a tough trip to Wales to take on Cardiff, while the 10-bet Lions visit unbeaten league leaders Edinburgh in Scotland.

On Saturday, the Bulls host Ulster in Pretoria, while the Stormers welcome the Scarlets to Cape Town.

The Bulls and the Stormers start as favourites on home soil, while the Sharks and Lions face difficult away assignments as all four South African franchises look to... maintain their top eight momentum early in the season.

On to soccer news, Durban City coach Eric Tinkler wants to see a ruthless mentality from his players as they prepare for the second leg of their CAF Confed Cup tie against AS Port Louis 200 in Mauritius.

The citizens head into the return fixture with a 3-1 advantage after winning the first leg at Moses Mabida last weekend.

They play the first of two games against the Springbok women at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday.

An autopsy has concluded that Lions second row Hyron Andrews died of natural causes in France last weekend.

The 31-year-old was found dead in a shower cubicle last Friday on the eve of their Investec Champions Cup game against La Rochelle.

That game went ahead on Saturday with La Rochelle winning 31 points to 14, but there was a minute's silence at all of the European games last weekend.

South Africa's governing body released a statement this week saying that Andrews had died in an accident after falling at the team's hotel.

And in a further statement yesterday, the Lions revealed that the post-mortem examination shows it's likely he suffered an aortic aneurysm.

His body will remain in France until further notice.

Finally today, England captain Mauro Eto'oje has turned down reported offers from France and committed his future to Saracens.

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So some really sad news started this weekend off, didn't it, Millie, with Hiron Andrews, the Johannesburg Lions player, sadly passing away in La Rochelle in a hotel.

on Friday, obviously just 24 hours before they were due to play La Rochelle.

I watched the game on the TV that evening and I was absolutely stunned by how brave the players from the Lions were to play that game.

They obviously wanted to do it to honour Hiram and his family after such a tragedy, but to get themselves psyched up to play a game with that horrible loss of their teammate, we'd like to send our thoughts obviously to to Hirons family and to the Lions, to everybody at La Rochelle who was so respectful and obviously to Sales Sharks as well because Hirons played there and was a good teammate and friend to some of their players.

So yeah, really sad tragedy.

Yeah, there was a minute silence at every game this weekend for him.

And we can only do the same.