Match to be steamed via SSS on Saturday 08 May 2021. Kick-off is at 11:45.
A 7-point plan for Roos to beat Gim:
- Lineout setpiece. While schoolboy set scrums are often friendly towards weaker teams, there is no getting away from poor lineout work. In a stop-start game, losing a few key lineouts can be a coach killer. It has even known to be fatal in some instances. So while Roos might want to borrow from the Garsfontein playbook versus Nelspruit to counter lineout maul drives, their main emphasis must be to make sure their own lineout is 100% on the money as near as possible to perfect. In SBR continuity is not that big. A lot of the good stuff comes from first phase possession. Good ball means a lot!
- Low tackles and holding turnovers. Gim are busy rewriting the book on how to be a successful SBR team for a couple of unique reasons. Amongst them is that they are not overly dependent on high tempo play. Their ability to muscle up in the gain-line winning collisions and recycle ball has been causing a lot of opponent attrition. You seldom see a Gimmie being dominated in contact, separated from his support players or pinged for holding. It all seems to stem from the strength their players possess on their feet. In-form flank Corne Beets is the one who best defines this ability at present. Like many of his teammates, he’s not about the explosive x-factor stuff but rather the efficiency and precision at the impacts. So he engages the defence, often drawing the attention of more than one defender, yet stays upright for an extra second or two longer, while making the go-forward hard yards and allowing Gim to have another go from the next phase. Common to SBR is that the percentage chance of winning holding penalties and steals off the ground increases as the PD’s and tight loose driving grow in number. However when it comes to Gim, opponents struggle to get into breakdown effective positions or isolate their ball-carriers. What the Paul Roos defence cannot afford to do, is try to take on Gim with upper body strength. Rather drop the shoulder a lot lower and make it the mission to get the attacker on the deck ASAP. Yes it might result in more opportunities to offload in contact but it’s worth it to go there in terms of game planning. Couple this with slower rolling away and a very aggressive pilfering strategy immediately after the tackle, to get the ball or at the very least slow the Gim retention game right down.
- Linespeed. It’s no secret the Gim flyhalf is making all the right decisions and bossing the game in the process. His centre pairing are Gib and Raltar. Rock solid. Time seems to slow down when they are in possession. Their pass completion rate is extremely high and their reading of play is sharp. Let’s not mention how effective they are on D. Anyways PRG need to get after the young 10. Put him under pressure like he has not felt this season so far. Do everything to shake the confidence of a known dictator. Outside him aim to do the same. Rush the centres. Smother them. Don’t give them any space.
- Attack speed. The Boland Landbou game suggested that PRG forwards will not pull off too many big plays. The Maroon Machine line is however a very different prospect. Able to operate at incredible speed, they are quite possibly faster than anything Gim has had to defend against so far in 2021. To have pacey backs with hands capable of making accurate passes while moving at full tilt still ranks as the best asset a team can have at SBR level.
- Creative lines and understanding. Like mentioned above Gim are unique and defence is setting them apart. Predicable moves might backfire badly. PRG has to realise that defence could quite easily become a Gim attacking weapon as they have heavy set schoolboys stretched across the park. So the Maroons need elements of surprise. The support running lines they picked, the unexpected and unlikely passes they make and the short kicks they employ might be too high a hurdle to coach this up in less talented backline but Roos can go there and be successful.
- Freshness. Paul Roos has played one match in the same period that Gim played three. There’s a good argument to be made that more early season time on the field together will be a positive for Gim’s cohesion and match fitness. Focusing on the positive for the Stellenbosch faithful, their team are bound to be carrying a lot fewer niggles and other sports science staff attended to body parts.
- Familiarity. Paul Roos has now had amble opportunity to study Gim and put together a comprehensive data pack on their strengths and whatever weaknesses only experienced coaching eyes are able to detect. Plus it was footage generated by proper video production teams at festivals. By comparison for current analysis to go on, Gim possibly only has the Boland Landbou school production match from a few weeks ago.
@Carpe diem: sorry my fout. Het die uitslae vir Beet gestuur
@PaarlBok: 19 wedstryde in totaal gespeel, waarvan Gim 15 wen (insluitend al agt O/19 wedstryde) en 4 verloor.
Gim wen 9 verloor 4 wedstryde.
That was a test match. Absorbing match. Very intense. Paul Roos showed a lot of courage. Gim could not get the ball wide very often esp in the second half. Testimony to the body-on-the-line defence of PRG particularly against the bashing up carries. A number of go-to ball-carriers in the Gim pack paved the way for victory with their work. Gim 5 Lock showed up well in the first half and the hooker plus loose-head came to the fore in the second half. Right wing also shone. Lovely individualistic try by the PRG fullback. Backs really battled for opportunity against the Gim organised D. Gim scrum is machine. Some strong boys in their tight five.
Geluk Gim met rugby en hokkie. Kampioenspan.
Wow!! Well done Gim. Julle gaan nog spanne seermaak vanjaar. Ek is bly PRG is vroeg klaar met julle.
PRG se grootste fout was om te probeer om Gim voor aan te vat. Vinnige goeie bal agtertoe sou beter werk soos teen Boland Landbou!!
@Cappie: jy moet onthou ne rona is baie baie baie lief vir open spaces veral dan parke ,strande ,sportgronde aag en sommer enige plek waar mense in die son hulle imunstelsel kan op bou,rona is geheel en al nie lief vir toe spasies soos malls,taverns ,shebeens en veral nie voertuie wat oorlaai is nie ,rona leef in die ooptes,rona haat ook toe vensters en so aan ….
@PRondersteuner: Mooi man. Daar is so baie dinge wat nie vir my sin maak rondom die Covid reëls nie maar ons moet dit seker maar aanvaar. Niemand word toegelaat op die paviljoene nie, maar drom dan saam in ‘n sosiale bymekaarkom plek om die wedstryde op tv te volg. Niemand word toegelaat op die strande, maar drom dan saam op die sypaaidjie en kroeë langs die strande. Reëls word op ons afgedwing. Ons weet mos die Covid is ‘n gevaar en as jy as persoon weet dit hou vir jou ‘n gevaar in tree versigtig op. Almal weet teen die tyd dat versigtige optrede gehandhaaf moet word. Wat sal dit nou vat om te sê daar mag 250 toeskouers van elke skool wedstryde bywoon? Eerder wydverspreid op die paviljoen as gekoek in die kroeg. Ag wat, never mind, wat weet ek nou…
@apple: Thats very funny 😄
I hope, if the schools play pre recorded tapes of the schools’ singing to create the same atmosphere as they did in the premier league, Paarl boys will borrow Paarl gym’s for the Grey match. There is something about the shrill sound of a co-ed school that encourages any boy in hearing distance to start running. You don’t lose it in later life either.
@Strepie: Nounet gesien PaarlTv het die uitsending gekanselleer!!!
@PRondersteuner: Hehe. At least the schools cannot be held accountable for the what happens on public property.
Seker die span ouers gaan iewers saam die sport kyk, vuur opsteek en lekker saam kuier.
@Strepie: ai tog ,die seuns tackle mekaar hulle scrum en ruck en maul dis n gejaag van asem n gespat van spoeg orals in hulle monde oe ore en neusgate ,en dan wil jy nou kom fearmonger oor n paar outjies wat langs die veld staan na al daai gespat van spoeg en asem …..
@Cappie: Yes, but only two busses went there. The 1st bus left an hour before the 1st team game. The rest had wait for the 1st team to finish. This Saturday a bus will leave every hour!!
@PRondersteuner: I saw there were good schoolboy support to the first teams re PRG vs Boland Landbou from both schools during the inter schools on 23 April 2021.
@beet: I agree with you 100%. It’s a very difficult situation. Especially now that a lot of games will be shown on either SS, 246, 247 and DigiTV.
I just used the example of the Paul Roos and Paarl Gim boys not allowed to watch the other games, to what will happen with the Grey boys at Brugstraat.
I can see Brugstraat being “closed” with all the bakkies parked for makeshift pavilions!!
The same at Markotter next to the river!!
@PRondersteuner: I think it would be a serious mistake to show anything but total conformation with regulations at these high profile events that are being broadcast. The last thing needed now is to draw the wrong kind of attention with visual proof to back it up. School officials must just have a mindset that they want the boys to be playing rugby next week and the weeks after that and go from there.
@Smallies: Ek stem saam met jou, maar elke skool lyk my het sy eie reëls en redes daarvoor. Wat gaan bv by Brugstraat gebeur? Moet die Grey seuns buite in die straat staan en wag tot die ander spanne klaar gespeel het? Of gaan hulle op pawiljoen toegelaat word en die HJS seuns nie? Dis maar moeilik en daar sal altyd ontevrede ouers/leerders/onderwysers wees!!
@Strepie: Die a-veld wedstryde word op Paarl-Tv gestream. Dis nou o19a tot o19d. Vir ons is gesê die ander wedstryde word opgeneem en sal later beskikbaar wees. Ek hoop maar so, want ek sal graag wil sien hoe lyk dit by die ander ouderdomsgroepe.
@Smallies: Duidelik nog nie iemand aan die dood afgestaan agv covid nie.
@PRondersteuner: dis bietjie belaglik ,hulle kan heel dag daar wees vir klasse maar kan nie in n groep van 23 hulle chomme gaan shout nie……..dis simpel
@PRondersteuner: Die virus is nie jou speelmaat nie.
Dankie tog SSL en SS saai uit, sal maar sien wat DigiTv opdis..
@Strepie: Ai man. Ek sou wat wou gee om daar te wees, maar die Covid reëls verhoed mos alles. Gim laat selfs nie eens die spelers toe om hul maats in ander spanne te ondersteun nie. 20 minute na die westryde moet die seuns af wees van die skoolgronde!!
@PRondersteuner: Paarl is die plek om te wees die naweek. Groot honde baklei die dinge uit, heel moontlik vir no1,2 en 3 vanjaar.
@Trots HJS (Tandem): Paul Roos is a bit of an unknown. They really looked like a very well coached and fit team in the one game they played, BUT so does Paarl Gim. Paul Roos did not look “underdone” and rusty in that game. The thing that really gave me hope for this season, is the 2nds and 3rds also looked very good and won two tough games.
Good luck to HJS Paarl and Grey College. Paarl might be a party town Saturday or very quiet like in 2018!!
I also think Paarl Gim will win but Paul Roos have Jacques Hanekom as a coach back and might just surprise . I go Gim by 6 but it can easily also be the other way around . Good luck to both great teams.
Ek sal nooit Paarl Gym onderskat nie, maar PRG kan hulle dalk net verras.
@PRondersteuner: Kiss of death.
@PaarlBok: Gaan kyk tog net hokkie asb!!
@Strepie: Ek hoop PRG is bietjie meer kompeterend as dit!!
Gim met 50.
@Zion:@Strepie: Ek dink nie dis wys om PRG te onderskat nie
Daardie Gim span is in goeie shape en goed afgerit, dit sal baie vat vir enige span om hulle te klop
Gim met 20
Beet, I think you might just have given PRG that extra little motivation they needed !