Simply put Affies were sublime and Westville hit the self-destruct button a few too many times to gain any sort of meaningful foothold for most of the match.
Affies scored full marks in most departments. They were focused, their execution was outstanding and their error rate was very low. The standout feature was however their unselfish play. Each player set out to advance the team cause over any personal glory. As a result of this attitude, the player in a better position almost always received the pass and most tries looked like it was part of a rugby exhibition on a similar level to what one would expect from the Basketball’s Harlem Globe Trotters. Westville’s self-confidence appeared to be at an all-time low. They made fundamental handling errors and also decision errors which gave them very little time on the ball. On defence they struggled to adjust to the power and pace of the Affies attacking game and so could not plug the holes.
Affies points:
5-0: After dominating the early phases the break though finally came in the 13th minute when AHS scrumhalf Jack Hart chipped over the top, WBHS fullback Hanru Naude couldn’t control the ball after the bounce, AHS flyhalf Ruan de Swardt collected it and made a good overhead inside pass to his rushing lock Dylan du Preez who rounded off.
12-0: Just about all the match was being played in the WBHS half with the home team really struggling to gain composure. Following a lineout a couple of the AHS big ball carriers took turns to get over the advantage line and from the platform established, the ball was spin neatly through the hands by straight running backs and eventually into those of fullback Tristan Jv Vuuren, who initially looked like he would be shepherded into touch near the right corner before he cut in and evaded a few tacklers far too easily and planted the ball over the line. Kicker de Swardt nailed the difficult angle kick with ease.
19-0: AHS were soon back on attack and used a rolling maul to advance into the redzone. Then a bit of play action kept the WBHS defence concentrated on the fringe and 10 channel, before a swift flat pass to outside centre Marnus Potgieter on a wonderful line, saw him over for the third try.
26-0: WBHS’s determined no.8 Dillion Taljaard won the ball back from the kickoff. No protection at the base of the ensuing ruck for scrumhalf Luc McIntosh resulted in an AHS turnover, which the visitors then kicked ahead. Naude the WBHS fullback looked for opportunity to run the ball back and this good work was undone by a wild looking pass which teammate at centre Jordan Schwartz couldn’t gather. A second AHS turnover followed and more swift transfers provided pacy right wing Carel Koch with a chance which he finished.
33-0: Koch’s second try showed off his technique and balance as he hugged the touchline and managed to stay in bounds. The opportunity came about through yet another turnover – this one being a misdirected pass as WHBS flyhalf Jaryd Lombard, who had time seemed to rush to get the ball wide in a set move after a scrum. AHS centre Potgieter picked up the loose ball and set Koch on his way.
40-0: A series of penalties provided WBHS with a rare but great field position to launch an assault on the AHS tryline. A well-taken lineout was backed up by some good hard ball running but crucially a key pass to Taljaard near the line was too high and he couldn’t bring it under control, resulting in a turnover. Not long after that, AHS was awarded a penalty while still inside their own 22. Quick thinking produced a magnificent cross-field kick mostly likely by De Swardt. The hang time was perfect for chasing left wing Christian Strydom to pluck it out the sky over the shoulder of his opposite number Tonny Mahlangu. Strydom then motored upfield, drew the last line defender and set inside support runner centre Louritz vd Schyff away for a dot down under the sticks.
Halftime: 40-0
45-0: After camping in the WBHS redzone, AHS was held up on the line. Using a solid 5m scrum as the base, for the umpteenth time the ball traveled slickly through several sets of hands enabling fullback Jv Vuuren to finish easily.
50-0: After a skew lineout throw by WBHS, AHS used the scrum as the starting point for their next attack. Following the setpiece restart inside centre vd Schyff came up with a textbook play on halfway. Up until then he had distributed just about every ball that came his way. This time he dummied, took the gap, drew and passed to wing Strydom, who scored in the left corner.
57-0: This try was probably the best of all the team tries scored. From a deep kickoff, the tireless Phillip Krause who is an outstanding ballcarrier, once again did his bit to crash and breach the gainline. The recycled ball then went wide and AHS found space. AHS wing Koch ran with it but was well tackled. Another phase was started and vd Schyff made another telling contribution with ball in hand. A third phase presented more frontfoot ball and centre Potgieter finally forced his way over.
62-0: WBHS produced an attacking platform of their own but crucially Krause made a brilliant steal at a vital ruck. AHS then drove the ball up before De Swardt tried to dink the ball over the defence. His kick went wrong but landed in open space and the luck of the bounce saw AHS regather it, move it around and finally give it to wing Strydom who did not need a second invitation to score.
WBHS then had a series of chances from close near the end of the match. Prop Donovan Grant looked almost certain to score as he dived over using a good body position. He was however miraculously held up by the very tuned in AHS defence. AHS won a heel against the head from the next 5m scrum but failed to control and were forced to concede another 5m scrum. WBHS were then awarded a penalty. They turned down the chance to get points on the board via a shot at goal and went on to pull off a very good 5m lineout, allowing well-built runners flank Zane Heyneke and then lock JP Pelser to both run onto passes and have bashes but AHS stood their ground and forced a knock-on to end that opportunity.
Anyone interested in Glenwood vs Framesby pics, great pics; https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1549960328633991.1073741932.1470837539879604&type=3
@Woltrui: the player is fine out for 3weeks with concussion. The Westville performance was disappointing to say the least. Ek dink 30-40 punte sou meer realisties gewees het. Die Westville span sukkel om te gel en speel op die oomblik vir wat op die rug staan en nie die wapen op die bors nie. Ons sal kyk hoe dinge lyk na die naweek teen DHS. Glo dit kan dalk die verskil wees tussen n gemiddelde of swak seisoen….
@Woltrui: I’ve heard it’s Piet Krause (ex Bulls player’s son)? He was a tough bugger. Played against him for most of my high school career and he never ever stood back. If it’s his son, and he’s half as tough as his dad, then I agree with you.
a Team whom will give this Affies team a go is definitely the Grey Bloem first team. The age group game between Affies and Grey Bloem, when the boys were u/16, was HARD and TOUGH. Affies scored a try in the final minutes of the game to edge Grey. On the day any team could have won the game. According to some bloggers the Grey Bloem team also had an “off day” that particular Saturday
My impressions of Affies/Wesville inter school Saturday:
-Wesville is truly a “leafy suburb”.
-When I asked the boy at the entrance gate how much the program cost and he answered “dit is verniet oom” I just about fell in love with Wesville. The Wesville boys don’t greet with a “Sir” as we are used to with the inter school derbies in Gauteng. ALL the kids greet you with a “hallo oom”. Lekker man!
-All the A-team games except for the First team were hard and competitive.
-The Affies u/14a team is in my opinion a team with a lot of potential. Strong front row. Iron of a 8. Very talented 12 and 13. Deadly place kicker. Still lot of hard work, especially in the lineouts.
-Injuries. Ai. So many kids were badly injured (badly injured=had to go to the hospital). Definitely a worrying factor. Can any body give us an update regarding the Westville player whom was stretchered of in the first team game?
-First teams: If there is currently a better schoolboy 7 in SA than Phillip Krause, I would like to see him play.
@Gungets Tuft:
Jeez bru. What is this blog coming to?
@Rugbymal: I haven’t watched Affies yet, all I was saying is Glenwood have a good pack that should match them. We matched EG Jansen.
@grasshopper: Affies vs Westville. Affies won all 25 games. Points for:1033, points against: 92.
@Grasshopper: Agree have not been overly impressed with the Affie’s pack.
@Speartackle: One thing that has not changed from schools days – the wishful thinking …
@Vyfster: Westville are having a bad start, they are usually far better than this. Look at the A team results, pretty close. Glenwood will have a chance if they can stay injury free, but playing Affies in Pretoria after a long bus trip is daunting. Glenwood certainly have the pack to take them on. We still need to get through SANIX in Japan unscathed and all our local fixtures before Affies and Grey Bloem in the 4th term. 5 from 5 is a good start for the Green Machine.
And this thing of giving all your teams a game, is not fully true.
Since time immemorial, Affies have send their lower teams to play against country or smaller city schools..
Eg, Helpmekaar has only about 9 teams……all Affies’s other teams were playing that day…for example against schools like Hans Strijdom, Sutherland, Ben Viljoen or F H Odendaal, thus their u14 c and d team will play HS u14a and b respectively..their 4rth and 5th maybe Ben Viljoen 2nds and 3rds….and so on …so they mostly can give all their teams a game locally if they want to….without driving 600km each way.
we really want them to play Eg, Monnas and Garsies…far better test than Westville or sad to say, PBHS.
Lol….ok then, the hat trick tryscoring wing from Affies . his dad was also in Ben Vorster, albeit a few years after me….his 2 older brothers were same time as me, so they’ll all remember…
Back to the rugby…who can win this Affies team…suppose Wildeklawer will be tough against Outeniqua and Boishaai…..also Grey Bloem and Glenwood…..maybe Jeppe.
But this team is truly something to behold, and it’s gonna take a special effort to stop this juggernaut….how i would love to see them against Garsies, EG and Monnas…3 teams that can upset them……….better to play this than against westville imo
Calm down ……jeepers this is a schoolboy blog……
@grasshopper; too true, strange things started rising that needed some female attention, under the blankie…but that song made the girls horny as well….shout out to HOT RS….proudly South African studio version of a famous old song!
@Kosie: haha..good memories…of course 9 hours of fun on a bus can sometimes lead to 9 months of deep anxiety….but we only managed to get to 2nd or 3rd base if your lucky, hence the blanket covering…..to conceal some evidence and keep prying eyes away
@Vyfster: hahahah, great beat……it’s hot, it’s hot. I thought something else might have been rising on that bus under the blanket….not the sun….
@Grasshopper: After one such journey back after a mid term break, the scene was set for part II on the return journey. The following day I had to explain to Crome Dome exactly what happened on the bus as he had heard some stories. He was quick to say that he did not believe a word he heard as we were all fine boys and probably just lived out our motto- Carpe Diem or seize the day as he use to say
@Grasshopper: Yeah, it is good that there were plenty of ‘kafoefling” around in your day from local girl schools…..but those are city girls, and you have clubs etc, and lots of options.
The girls in my school were mostly farm girls with dads as big as houses, and deadly shots to boot!
They stayed in the ‘koshuis’ which were better guarded than Fort Knox….
So you’re only chance was either in the school bus, or to cop a quick feel in those biology classes with the long tables….
We use to have a dance or a movie every friday night in the school hall, where you can have a bit of a vrytjie inside……but our HM patrolled the bushes outside with a flashlight…to ensure no shenanigans occurs on his watch….I kid you not.
And 10 minutes after the movie or dance finished all the girls must be back in their dorm.
So no options like going to a nightclub in Tzaneen to pick up some girls like you can do in the city.
That’s why we used to love those long bus trips at night…..and my favourite song will always be ‘House of the rising sun’….the Hot RS version.
i don’t know if anyone are familiar with that version, if not search for it on YouTube….no song on earth can get the hormones flowing like that one..lol
@kosie: I wonder how many newly acquainted couples were left behind in Montrose behind the buildings.? Refreshing themselves for sure…
@Vyfster: Your rendition of a sports day brings back memories. The Valies at Kearsney in my day were not enough to fill a bus from Botha’s Hill so together with the St Mary’s and Epworth girls, filling the same bus we set off on our 9 hour journey to Zoo Lake in Jhb. We use to stop at the old Montrose for refreshments. By that time all were well acquainted and the second half of the journey always seemed too short.
@Grasshopper: Lol……I ordered a mug
@Grasshopper: How is the married life so far?
Still in love?
I think I should take you to Massage City there in Orange Grove
@Speartackle: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tackle
@Speartackle: And tackle isn’t a rugby tackle but the tackle downstairs…
@Speartackle: So that is where you got your name from, you used to spear chicks on drums….
@Vyfster: I hope your 40 year old wife is not reading this……..and why under a blanket? We used oil drums as seats…..and the then gravel road between Memel and Vrede gave some automatic rhythm with her on your lap
@Vyfster: We had the local girls school nearby and they would all come down and watch the game, plenty of cafuffling afterwards….I can assure you…
It is never too cold to fondle a girl on the way back….
Me also coming from the platteland, meaning even our normal league fixtures were mostly a 100-300 km’s away, with a mountain pass to navigate that even the short 100 k’s to Polokwane took at least 2.5 hours.
So our yearly friendly’s against Nelspruit, Lydenburg, and fixtures from Warmbaths to Messina at least 5 hours on the bus.
But that is where the real memories lay, the rugby played on the day…..but more importantly….the smooching on the bus back home…..it is dark and cold outside, but you and a girl cuddling under a blanket on a bus seat…..whilst music played on a tapedeck that was specially compiled for the trip……always featuring the HOT R.S version of “House Of The Rising Sun”….absolute magic!
People think I am being funny, but I truly pity the guys in Boys only schools…..I have no idea what they do on the long trips back home, but they are missing out big time…
Why can co-eds compete with boys schools twice their size?
Coz’ the better you play, the bigger your chance to have a nice ‘vrytjie’ on bus back home, from an admiring girl…..no bigger incentive on earth for a teenage boy….if we won against say ‘HTS Tom Naude’ in my day, you are virtually guaranteed a nice smooch down Magoeba’s Kloof….priceless!
Grey Bloem vs College
Played: 28
Grey won: 28
College won: 0
Points for Grey: 1060
Points for College: 160
Avg Score: 38-6
Largest losses for College: Under15A 0-71 & Under16A 12-82
It was very tough out there…..
@Cappie: Average score being a 44-4 victory to Affies and that was in KZN after a long bus trip. Eina! I’ll do the College vs Grey maths now and post here
@Cappie: Moenie die #PrideandPassion wedstryd op Wildeklawer Maandag te gering skat
@Cappie: Yep – pretty much a clean sweep on the rugby by Grey – most games being by 20 points or more.
Hockey was pretty one sided to College
Lyk vir my redelik eenrigtingverkeer, behalwe vir die A-spanne.
http://www.affiesrugby.co.za/2016-ander-spanne-uitslae.html
Ek wonder hoe lyk die Grey-Maritzburg tellings? Seker dieselfde. Affies en Grey is besig om op te bou na ‘n epiese interskole wat plaasvind op 7 Mei.
@Rugger fan: Yep, I understand it. Maybe it’s because I come from the platteland and our biggest tour was when we had to play Harrismith and our bus was a big open truck in the middle of June. It was even to cold to fondle the girls on the way back.
But we never got klapped 63-0……..and I remember absolutely nobody from Harrismith
@Speartackle: College were on the receiving end this weekend – we gave it to PBHS last year – but I would still want both weekends to continue as a parent / Old Boy as there is nothing like a big tour to another school to build gees and camaraderie
Sjoe dis lekker om so ‘n positiewe reaksien te sien! Die afrigters werk regtig baie hard om seker te maak die seuns speel vir mekaar en bly te alle tye nederig.
As die manne besef dat ALMAL uitblink wanneer hulle vir mekaar speel, sal baie meer driee in rugby gedruk word. Wat hierdie Affiespan betref kan hulle ‘n besonderse seisoen he as 15 man rugby en onselfsugtigheid seevier.
@Seerbeer: Ja dit was nogal opvallend. Sheee, ek het Sondag soos n tamatie gelyk, daai Natal herfs son en n gebrek aan koelte het sy ding gedoen.
@Speartackle: Looking at the age group ‘A’ team scores looked more competitive between the schools. Bodes well. Must say I agree the Affies 1st team played brilliantly and was a pleasure to watch.
@Affiedorp: Stem saam jou Affiedorp. Ek was toevallig Saterdag in omgewing en het gaan inloer, het baie talent tussen die Westville spelers gesien…daar wag ‘n blink toekoms op hulle. Ek was net baie verbaas dat omtrent al die wedstryde wat ek gekyk het die lynstaan kodes in Afrikaans uitgeskree word?
@Speartackle: Friends and memories probably. Also, learning to win & lose graciously. It seems daft to travel that distance to play a game, but there are not many schools in SA that can put out 25 to 30 rugga teams on one day. Westville, College, Glenwood, Paul Roos, Grey PE, KES, PBHS, Boishaai & Grey Bloem probably the only ones. The KZN sides are the only ones feasible to drive to…
@Grasshopper: So actually it is all about making memories
@Speartackle: It’s that or a little trip to Auckland or Christchurch in NZ, it’s good to give ALL the boys a game or two…
Dit is duidelik dat hierdie seuns nie net vir hul spanmaats speel nie, maar vir die hele skool. Hulle is ware Affies. As hulle dit kan reg kry of so te bly speel gaan hulle een van die bestes wees wat Affies nog opgelewer het. Westville of Wesville soos baie mense jul deesdae noem, julle is n klomp aangename mens met n positiewe gesindheid. Ek voorspel dat julle rugby oor paar jaar op dieselfde vlak as jul hokkie gaan wees.
Is hierdie 30 bustrips regtig die moeite werd vir 80-0 oorwinnings?
Eish, Glenwood have caught a few hidings like that from Affies in the past. Huge learning curve. But that is why you have to play the best to be the best. Westville will learn alot about themselves from this and come back better. It could provide the spark to get them going this season.
Dit wat ek aanvanklik gevrees het is besweer…Affies is besig om weer as ‘n totale eenheid saam te speel bestaande uit totale 15 man rugby…Well Done seuns dat julle besef dat die aansien gegee word aan die spelers wat driee maak en nie noodwendig aan die speler wat net afrond en die drie druk nie.