It is a line-up fit for purpose rather than what he thinks to be his best starting XV that Lions coach Ivan van Rooyen will deploy against the Sharks in Durban on Friday.

He would have scratched his head over a number of selections but eventually settled on a combination that is perhaps a little more combative in nature...

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