Coach Ivan van Rooyen has made two changes to the Lions starting XV for Saturday’s Vodacom URC match against the Stormers in Cape Town.
PJ Botha starts at hooker, having made his return from injury off the bench against Newcastle in the EPCR Challenge Cup last weekend, while Erich Cronje replaces the injured Henco van Wyk at outside centre.
The Lions are looking to bounce back from back-to-back Challenge Cup defeats, but will take heart from their win against the Vodacom Bulls at Loftus last time out in the URC that left them seventh on the log.
Kick-off at Cape Town Stadium is at 3:30pm.
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LIONS – 15 Quan Horn, 14 Kelly Mpeku, 13 Erich Cronje, 12 Bronson Mills, 11 Eduan Keyter, 10 Chris Smith, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Francke Horn (c), 7 Ruan Venter, 6 Jarod Cairns, 5 Reinhard Nothnagel, 4 Etienne Oosthuizen, 3 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 2 PJ Botha, 1 SJ Kotze.
Bench: 16 Franco Marais, 17 Edward Davids, 18 RF Schoeman, 19 Dylan Sjoblom, 20 Darrien Landsberg, 21 Siba Qoma, 22 Nico Steyn, 23 Richard Kriel.
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