{"id":36914,"date":"2024-03-07T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=36914"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:48:39","slug":"autumn-beckoning-means-its-rugby-time-as-marlow-welcomes-duineveld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=36914","title":{"rendered":"Autumn beckoning means it&#8217;s rugby time as Marlow welcomes Duineveld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36927\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rugby-marlow-2023-400x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/>It&#8217;s almost Autumn, but it is, most definitely, that time of the year when players dust off their togs ahead of the kick-off of the rugby season, with <strong>Ho\u00ebr Landbouskool Marlow<\/strong> playing host to a formidable <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Duineveld<\/strong> on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first XV match kicks off at 13:15, with all the matches on the <strong>Willie Meyer Field<\/strong> being covered live on the <strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong> platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catch all the action live on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SuperSport Schools<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(www.supersportschools.com)<\/span><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s an away game for Duineveld, the Velties, who make the &#8220;groot trek&#8217; of almost 700 kilometres from Upington to Cradock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visitors&#8217; lineup includes some talented players to watch out for. In the pack, they have <strong>Wian Liebenberg<\/strong>, who will be wearing the all-important number 8 jersey. Supporting him in the loose trio is flanker <\/span><b>Alec Andrianatos,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will also be out to impress this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the backline, <\/span><b>Ethan van Zyl<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be aiming to keep the game moving and will be taking on the kicking responsibilities for his side &#8211; with goalkicking maybe all that will separate two well-matched sides at the end of the game. Speedy fullback <\/span><b>Gregan Jansen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> patrols in the last line of defence and he&#8217;ll be eager to show his ability on attack, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stands are expected to be filled, and Marlow will be eager to impress their home supporters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023 the team had a mixed run of form but scored some fine victories over top Eastern Cape sides, including <strong>St Andrew&#8217;s College<\/strong>, <strong>Selborne College<\/strong> and <strong>Nico Malan<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about the players to watch out for this season, Marlow&#8217;s coach <\/span><b>Derik Olivier <\/b>said:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;This is one team united, no individual&#8221;, which echoes the &#8220;all for one, one for all&#8221; mantra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last weekend, Marlow ran out 22-point winners in their first match of 2024, defeating <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Upington<\/strong> 34-12.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given that boost of confidence, and the backing of the home supporters, Marlow will be confident they could add win number two. Duineveld, however, has already played three games and they boast a 3 and 0 record, with victories over <strong>Kalahari<\/strong>, <strong>Kathu<\/strong> and <strong>Jim Fouch\u00e9<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Saturday signalling the true start of the 2024 season, there&#8217;s going to be a serious buzz around the country when the first whistles sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Teams\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ho\u00ebr Landbouskool Marlow<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 Kunga Venkile, 14 JJ Erasmus, 13 Theunis Botha, 12 Christiaan v\/d Merwe, 11 Teagan Wiessener, 10 Gideon Jordaan, 9 Gian Steyl, 8 Jan-Hendrik Els, 7 IB van Heerden, 6 Robert van Zyl, 5 Dant\u00e9 Roux, 4 Wilco Nel, 3 Hermanus Steyn, Francois du Toit, 1 Zeiss Jordaan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaches: Derik Olivier and Dale De Wet<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team Manager: Korsie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0Ho\u00ebrskool Duineveld<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 Gregan Jansen, 14 Jaquin Jasson, 13 Henry Page, 12 PJ Smit, 11 AJ Burger, 10 Ethan van Zyl, 9 Franco Erasmus, 8 Wihan Liebenberg, 7 Jandries Potgieter, 6 Alek Andrianatos, 5 Jan-Carel Claasens, 4 Arno Luttig, 3 Ethan Prins, 2 Phillip van As, 1 Adriaan Botha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaches: Stefan van Wyk and Ruan Venter<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team Manager: Etienne Havenga<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fixtures<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u19A: 13:15 pm (Willie Meyer Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u16A: 12:00 pm (Willie Meyer Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u19B: 10:50 am (Willie Meyer Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u19C: 9:40 am (Willie Meyer Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u15A: 10:50 am (Willie Meyer Field)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u14A: 8:30 am (Kala Field)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Autumn, but it is, most definitely, that time of the year when players dust off their togs ahead of the kick-off of the rugby season, with Ho\u00ebr Landbouskool Marlow playing host to a formidable Ho\u00ebrskool Duineveld on Saturday.\u00a0 The first XV match kicks off at 13:15, with all the matches on the Willie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":36927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}