Emirates Lions captain Marius Louw runs out for his 50th international match when his team faces the DHL Stormers at DHL Stadium on Saturday (3.45pm kick-off).
The visitors have Sam Francis starting at flyhalf once again with the only change to the team that beat Pau last weekend in EPCR Challenge Cup being Ruan Delport in for the injured Reinhard Nothnagel at lock.
“It was important to get back to the Lions way with a win against Pau, we don’t have any excuses for our losses in the previous couple of weeks.
“We are not going to stray from the way we want to play. We will run with the ball and play in the right areas of the field; nothing is going to change for us. Last year when we played against the Stormers there were glimpses of what we want to show in Cape Town on Saturday,” said Jaque Fourie, the Lions' assistant coach.
DHL Stormers starting XV: 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 11 Leolin Zas; 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies; 8 Marcel Theunissen, 7 Ben-Jason Dixon, 6 Deon Fourie (capt); 5 JD Schickerling, 4 Salmaan Moerat; 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Ali Vermaak. Replacements: 16 JJ Kotze, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Neethling Fouché, 19 Adré Smith, 20 Willie Engelbrecht, 21 Paul de Villiers, 22 Paul de Wet, 23 Jean-Luc du Plessis.
Emirates Lions starting XV: 15 Tapiwa Mafura, 14 Rabz Maxwane, 13 Erich Cronje, 12 Marius Louw (capt), 11 Edwill van der Merwe; 10 Sam Francis, 9 Morne van den Berg; 8 Francke Horn, 7 WJ Steenkamp, 6 Jarrod Cairns; 5 Ruan Delport, 4 Ruben Schoeman; 3 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 2 PJ Botha, 1 Juan Schoeman. Replacements: 16 Franco Marais, 17 Morgan Naude, 18 Conraad van Vuuren, 19 Darrien Lansberg, 20 Izan Esterhuizen, 21 JC Pretorius, 22 Sanele Nohamba, 23 Manny Rass.
DHL Stormers v Emirates Lions
DHL Stadium, Cape Town – KO 1.45pm IRE & UK/2.45pm ITA/3.45pm SA
Referee: Christopher Allison (SARU, 2nd league game)
AR 1: AJ Jacobs (SARU) AR 2: Stephan Geldenhuys (SARU)
TMO: Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU)
Live on: SuperSport, Premier Sports, Flo Rugby & URC.tv
Comments