Pat Lambie will wear the No 10 jersey this week given the injuries to Steve Meyer and Ruan Pienaar. It’s been confirmed that Pienaar’s AC joint injury will sideline him for six weeks, a layoff that ends his stint with the Sharks and the Springboks. Pienaar will be moving to Ulster in Ireland in September.

The extent of Meyer’s injury is yet to be learned, but the knee ligament could rule him out for some time. Meanwhile, Bok hooker Bismarck du Plessis could be back as early as the weekend after missing the last three months of rugby with a neck injury.

Various other playersstill out due to injuries, ” Jannie DuPlessis, Adi Jacobs, Odwa Ndugane, Gerhard Mostert, Alistair Hargreaves, Micheal Rhodes, Riaan Swannepoel, Lionel Mapoe” although is does seem Jannie DuPlessis and Alistair Hargreaves should also be ready to play this comming weekend.

The situation regarding Lionel Mapoe is still unclear, and one is also unsure as to is he injured or is he unable to play because of the contractual dispute.

A possible team to face the Lions this comming weekend could be as follows:

15  louis Ludick, 14 Lwazi Mvovo, 13 Stefan Terblanche, 12 Andries Strauss, 10 Patrick Lambie, 09 Charl Mcleod, 08 Ryan Kankowski, 07 Willem Alberts, 06 Jean Deysel, 05 Alistair Hargreaves, 04 Steven Sykes, 03 Wiehahn Herbst, 02 Craig Burden,Tendai  Beast Mtawarira

Reserves: 16 Bismark DuPlessis/Kyle Cooper, 17 Patric Cilliers/ Jannie DuPlessis, 18 Ross Skeate/Jacques Botes, 19 Keegan Daniel, 20 Rory Cockott, 21 Monty Dumond, 22 Odwa Ndugane/Riaan Swannepoel