Lions have big playoffs say

Cape Town – They are much admired this season by South African neutrals, but are the Lions’ finals series aspirations in Super Rugby 2015 really taken seriously by those celebrating their unanticipated endurance?

Let me suggest this much: if they upset the Bulls in Saturday’s main domestic feature at Loftus (19:10), it should be enough to finally do the trick if that hasn’t occurred already.

Certainly it will go a long way to banishing any lingering doubts (unscientific, and pure gut feel) in my own mind about their ability to last the pace and have a real sniff at qualifying for the playoffs for the first time.