Fidelity ADT Lions head coach Mzwakhe Nkosi has made several changes to his starting lineup to face the Airlink Pumas on Friday at 17:00 (SA Time) at the Airlike Emirates Park.
Only Prince Nkabinde, Travis Gordon, Darrien-Lane Landsberg and Captain Jaco Visagie survived the expected cut.
JC Pretorius will get his first start of the Currie Cup campaign with 11 URC players who were included in the starting XV who recently did duty last week against Zebre Parma
Lock Darrien Landsberg will once again come face-to-face with his former team. The versatile forward still rates the Currie Cup highly and believes his side has it all to do as the tournament enters the next phase towards play-offs.
Fidelity ADT Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Prince Nkabine, 13 Manuel Rass, 12 Rynhardt Jonker, 11 Rabz Maxwane, 10 Gianni Lombard, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Travis Gordon, 6 JC Pretorius, 5 Darrien-Lane Landsberg, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Jaco Visagie (c), 1 Rhynardt Rijnsburger. Replacements: 16 Morne Brandon, 17 Kayden Kiewit, 18 Ruan Smith, 19 Raynard Roets, 20 Ruhan Straeuli, 21 Nico Stey, 22Vaughen Isaacs, 23 Stean Pienaar.
