Horn wants Lions to keep focused in URC tour opener

Mike Greenaway

Lions captain Francke Horn says his team can’t afford any more mid-game “slumps” if they are to have a successful United Rugby Championship (URC) tour, starting on Friday night against Cardiff. In the Lions’ last game, they lost a cliffhanger to the Sharks 25-22, and Horn says they have identified where they went wrong. “In our review of the Sharks game, we saw that there was a five to ten-minute slump before half-time where we weren’t in the moment,” the 25-year-old said. “That obviously wasn’t good enough, and there were a few individual, basic errors at the end that cost us the game. But as teammates, we should back each other up and rectify each other’s mistakes. That is a crucial thing we must remember on tour.” Horn added that…

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