The Lions are almost perpetually stuck with a “poorest cousins” description when weighed against their three other South African compatriot teams in the United Rugby Championship.
We all know that the bigger attendances and more glamorous player signings, for example, almost unfailingly tend to go the way of the Stormers, Bulls and Sharks.
While the KZN-based team quite firmly bring up the rear in the SA charge in this season’s tournament, the Ellis Park franchise remain stubbornly odd ones out in another glaring sense.