VIDEO: 'Remind South Africa that we are a top team'

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: This weekend is the ideal opportunity for the Stormers to remind South Africa why they are one of the top teams.

To say that the Stormers are in dire need of a turnaround might be an understatement.

The Cape Town franchise has had a dismal start to their United Rugby Championship and Champions Cup season.

They are on a four-match losing streak -  including a humbling 16-53 loss to Harlequins in the Champions Cup last weekend.

It was an understrength Stormers team that took the field at the Twickenham Stoop in London and this week they will field a very different-looking Stormers team at home.

The likes of Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Deon Fourie, Frans Malherbe and Ben-Jason Dixon could feature in the URC encounter against the Lions on Saturday.

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"I'm excited," Feinberg-Mngomezulu said, adding: "We all know how important it is, it is not something we are oblivious to.

"However it is kind of nice pressure of having to go and win a game in front of the faithful and remind South Africa that we are a top team."

The Johannesburg side is currently fifth on the URC log and will be a confident outfit after their first Challenge Cup win over Pau last weekend.

In contrast, the inaugural URC champs, the Stormers, find themselves in very unfamiliar territory in the 13th spot - with the same points as Ospreys and Zebre and just four points clear of the bottom of the table Dragons.

However, while the log pressure is mounting, Feinberg-Mngomezulu is confident that his team can turn things around.

The 22-year-old playmaker revealed that it is still too early to evaluate the season's success.

"It is early days in the URC season. We still have a lot of home fixtures to come.

"We would be shooting ourselves in the foot if we didn't think there could be a confident outcome for the rest of the season.

"So like I said it's early days and we can still turn things around quite nicely."

Feinberg-Mngomezulu added: "We drive certain standards in the group and we are not happy with what we are putting out there.

"But since season one we have never been the favourites, we have always been the underdogs, so to listen to the outside noise would do us an injustice.

"Therefore we have stuck to what we know and that is keeping this in-house and making solutions to our problems."