Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Second ever rugby game

Days later, on Tuesday 16 July, the Barbarians played their 2nd match.

Again at the Harlequins club. This time a visitor side all the way from London! 

And this time the visitors understood right quick the our boys haven't been sleeping since their 1st game the previous Saturday. They have been learning, and working hard! 

It showed.

Final score was 14 to 19 in their favour. Much better performance by our boys, and two converted tries this time. Epic. 

Master Liam flew so high in the lineouts that the airport called and demanded to know why he never submitted a flight plan! Plus he tackled one opponent so hard that the Pommie dude spoke fluent Afrikaans for like, 45 seconds straight. His whole team was like dude, what??!!


The video that made the airport phone Liam. You can clearly see why!

Everybody else attended bar Spikey. Tuesdays are religious holidays for him and then no sport is allowed.

Not really! He was caring for his dad and ran out of time. Luckily The Dude was quick to update him, and Mom spent about 2 hours on the phone with him just bragging about her boy. 🤷‍♂️








First ever rugby game

 Master Liam played his first ever rugbygame on Saturday 13 July 2024 on the A field of the Harlequins club in Pretoria. Half past 9 in the morning. He represented a Barbarians side made up of guys who attended the rugby clinic at Tuks some weeks earlier and they played against a visiting school team all the way from the UK. The visitors were at the end of their second season playing together as their school's 1st Team. Our boys only started playing together during the intense practise sessions in the weeks leading up to this game. 

As such it came as no real surprise that the final score was 42 to 7 against the Barbarians. But valuable lessons were learned and our boys held their heads high. 


Our Dude was on the reserve bench. Here they are walking out onto the field moments before the teams ran out. He plays in the nr 4 jersey as lock. The coach sent him on together with 3 fresh forwards early in the 2nd half. They immediately made their presence felt. Suddenly the visitors stopped demolishing our scrums, and the line-outs were being contested properly. Our Dude's lineout work was on point!


The reserves walking to their bench to await the call-up from coach. 

He was supported from the stands by Dad, Mom, Dylan, Granny, Grampa, Spikey. 

It was a great day!