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!
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