Willem Alberts has made a timely return from injury to be including in a 28-player squad for the Lions' Vodacom URC tour and Challenge Cup playoff.
Willem Alberts has made a timely return from injury to be including in a 28-player squad for the Lions’ Vodacom URC tour and Challenge Cup playoff.
Alberts has not played for the Lions since starting in the Challenge Cup pool match against Newcastle Falcons on 16 December. The 39-year-old has recovered from a pectoral muscle injury suffered in training to be named in the squad that will play two Vodacom URC games in Ireland and Wales, before the Challenge Cup playoff against Benetton in Treviso.The Lions will start their tour with a Vodacom URC match against Connacht in Galway on Saturday and then take on Ospreys in Swansea on 30 March.This content is not behind a paywall and it is Habari Media's commitment that it remains so and access to the content is free.
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