Everitt and his players will have looked back at last week's loss against Bulls with regret. It was poor game management and a lack of cutting edge that prevented a first win of the season. Still, they will have come to Johannesburg with optimism.
Lions finished ninth in the URC last season and are not as daunting an opponent as Stormers or indeed Bulls. However, Edinburgh's soft underbelly was exposed in humiliating fashion in a 40-minute performance unbecoming of a team packed with internationals. Home fly-half Kade Wolhuter opened the scoring off the tee, and that sparked a remarkable spree of point-scoring against a porous visiting defence.
Quan Horn crossed in the corner with the Edinburgh defence stretched, in what would become a theme...
George O'Neill.