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Ntlabakanye urges SA teams to use URC to conquer EPCR openers
Cape Argus
|December 04, 2025
SPRINGBOK prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye says it is crucial that the Lions back up their recent United Rugby Championship victories over Ulster and the Bulls, with a defeat of Benetton this weekend in the opening round of the EPCR Challenge Cup. Kickoff is at 3pm on Saturday.
The big prop, who has a hearing in a week or so for a complicated positive test for a performance-enhancing medication he took for weight-loss, says last week's big win at Loftus Versfeld confirmed that the Joburg team have turned a corner.
"It was good to see the hard work pay off. To win at Loftus for the first time since 2023 was massive," he said. "But we can't be a one-performance team. We have to prove we can go back-to-back."
Ntlabakanye was called up to the recent Springbok tour as cover for injured Ox Nche, and he says he has brought back important knowledge to the Lions.
"Every time I come back from the Boks, I bring back things I have learned. We have to aspire to those (Springbok) standards."
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