Home comforts to fix Lions problems – Ntlabakanye

Hulking Lions prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye (right) believes that home comforts could be just what the doctor ordered to cure the Lions ills and get their United Rugby Championship (URC) campaign up and running against Scarlets at Ellis Park on Saturday.

- Ross Roche

The Lions lost all of their tour matches, comfortably against Cardiff, edged by Zebre and then hammered by Benetton over the past weekend, and sit just one place above their Welsh rivals this weekend, at the bottom of the log.

It is thus a must win game for them if they are to have any chance of chasing their goal of finishing in the URC top eight and making the playoffs for the first time, while a loss will likely already leave them with too much to do over the rest of the competition.

Ntlabakanye says the team is confident, and that they are eager to utilise home ground advantage to get them up and running and back to winning ways.