Lions must reignite attack spark when facing Zebre

ANGELO Davids will recall, with fondness, how he danced his way to four tries against Boland Kavaliers in the Lions’ Currie Cup semifinal romp in mid-September.

- MORGAN BOLTON

The Joburgers were full of running that day as they routed the Cape-based side 67-10, and Davids was the happy beneficiary of the gameplan, crossing the whitewash for a 20-point haul while also contributing with a try assist.

In all, Davids played nine matches for the Joburgers in the Cup, scoring 40 points, beating 22 defenders, making nine clean breaks, gaining 526m, and providing four try assists. His Cup performances allayed fears, to a certain degree, that the wing position would be in capable hands following the departure of Springbok Edwill van der Merwe to the Sharks.

“Ithas been a good one for me,’ Davids noted, earlier this week, in a Lions’ media briefing from Parma, northern Italy.

“Mentally, I needed the change ... I've settled in quite nicely here at the Lions. The team has made it easy for me to do what I need to do”