Side Entry: Lions upheaval no cunning plan

The day was July 12, and former Springbok inside centre De Wet Barry, who had been ignored by then Bok coach Straeuli to the point of fretting about his green and gold days being over, defensively laid waste to his opposite number Steve Kefu to the extent it ended his career with the Wallabies.

A Lions insider’s take on De Bruin mysteriously leaving the team, which was eventually put down to stress, was that the final straw for where the coach finds himself had been Lions vice-chairman Altmann Allers vetoing a team in which he actually had dropped Springboks Malcolm Marx and Elton Jantjies for the Chiefs game.

On the field the Lions, who hadn’t lost to a SA franchise since 2015 before this year, have not beaten one of their compatriots and have suffered from the inconsistency of the rest of their countrymen.

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