Lions aim high on tour

CONTENDERS: JOBURG PRIDE HAVE GENERALLY TRAVELLED WELL IN THE URC

- Ross Roche

The Lions are aiming to pick up at least two wins out of three from their tour to the UK and Italy as they target a place in the United Rugby Championship (URC) top four come the end of the season.

Key to that will be getting a full house of points in their opening tour game against Dragons in Newport tomorrow afternoon.

The Lions have enjoyed a strong start to the competition with bonus point wins over Ulster and Edinburgh, who they will likely be challenging for a spot in the URC play-offs, but that will all count for nought if they can't pick up away wins against arguably the two weakest teams in the competition.

Dragons have finished second-bottom of the log in all three seasons of the URC so far, while the Lions next opponents, Zebre, have finished bottom in every season.