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EMIRATES LIONS vs BLUES

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CONTENTSPRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 5

FREEZE FRAME 7

VODACOM MESSAGE 9

FUN AND THE CURRIE CUP AT DIGGERS 11

SUPER RUGBY TEAMS 14

SCHOOL TEAMS 17

PICTURES PAGE 18

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FIXTURES AND RESULTS 25

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TODAY WE WELCOME the Blues from Auckland to our home turf and we look forward to a clash which has always offered a fast-paced game with much action in the past, and we wait in anticipation to see what these two teams will produce tonight. A big thank you is extended to Vodacom for making this exciting competition possible. A heartfelt thank you to each and every sponsor and partner for your support and especially thank you to Emirates, our team sponsor. It is an honour and privilege to have you backing us. Your support, on all levels, is invaluable and we are proud to have you as not only our team sponsor but our partner and friend.

Today we will have two of our local schools in action: St Benedict’s College and Parktown Boys High. I want to laud our CEO Rudolf Straeuli for this initiative which will see school boy rugby in all our Vodacom Super Rugby curtain raisers. Good luck to coach Johan Ackermann and captain Warren Whiteley for this tough encounter.

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Enjoy the day with us.

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NO TASK IS too deep or too high for Diggers Rugby Club chairman Riaan Matthys to achieve and he even took hosting a Currie Cup game in his stride.

This businessman, who has been in the highest mine in the world and also down the deepest, could look back a job well done this past week.Diggers hosted the Currie Cup Qualifying game against the Free State Cheetahs last Saturday following the Golden Lions Rugby Union decision to take these games to the community.

Matthys and wife Jo worked hard to provide a day filled with rugby. As always, these two worked as a team.

Jo is expecting the couple’s fifth child in June but that didn’t deter her from helping out at the club. Both were married before and the fifth baby will be the couple’s third together.

Riaan was probably in two minds on Saturday. He is a born and bred Free Stater. He grew up in Bloemfontein where he started playing rugby at Under-6 level. After matriculating at HTS Louis Botha he represented the Shimlas at various levels as a utility forward, but preferred number eight.

Then, after completing his studies in Accountancy and furthering his studies in the field, he started his own company that does costing for mines.

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FUN AND THE CURRIE CUP AT DIGGERS By Annemie Bester

He travels a lot and in the process has been in the highest gold mine in the world, which is 5 200 meters up in the Andes Mountains of Chile. Riaan has also been down the deepest mine, right here in Gauteng, at Western Deep mine.

Despite his hectic work and travel schedule Matthys continued playing rugby. He captained the Diggers side since he joined them in 2007.

He also represented the Golden Lions Sub Union side for the last six years.

With his and wife Jo’s involvement with, and love for, Diggers they moved to Randburg to be closer to the club. Matthys says he can now hit the rugby club from his backyard with a decent golf wedge shot.

Diggers has consistently been one of the top clubs in the Senior Grand Challenge, beating Harlequins 44-5 in the 2015 final with their second side also winning their league and the third side and Under-20s losing their finals after hard-fought battles.

Their excitement and expectations of hosting the Xerox Golden Lions XV versus the Free State Cheetahs

match was vindicated by the good attendance at the match where a fun day full of rugby made it a very special club occasion.

The Currie Cup, won by the Golden Lions in 2015, was at the field and supporters were able to have their pictures taken with the Cup at no cost.

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Riaan Matthys

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EMIRATES LIONS

14 MAY 2016

15 Jaco van der Walt14 Ruan Combrinck

13 Lionel Mapoe12 Rohan Janse van Rensburg

11 Courtnall Skosan10 Elton Jantjies9 Ross Cronje

8 Warren Whiteley (captain)7 Warwick Tecklenburg

6 Jaco Kriel5 Franco Mostert4 Andries Ferreira

3 Julian Redelinghuys2 Malcolm Marx1 Dylan Smith

Replacements:16 Armand van der Merwe

17 Corné Fourie18 Jacques van Rooyen

19 Ruan Ackermann20 Cyle Brink

21 Faf de Klerk22 Howard Mnisi23 Sylvian Mahuza

Coaches:Johan Ackermann (Head Coach)Swys de Bruin (Assistant Coach)

JP Ferreira (Assistant Coach)

Referee: Jaco van Heerden AR1 Jaco Peyper AR2 Pro Legoete TMO Shaun Veldsman

KICK-OFF: 19:15

BLUES

15 Lolagi Visinia 14 Melani Nanai13 George Moala12 Piers Francis

11 Tevita Li 10 Ihaia West9 Bryn Hall

8 Steven Luatua 7 Tanerau Latimer6 Jerome Kaino

5 Hoani Matenga 4 Patrick Tuipulotu 3 Charlie Faumuina

2 James Parsons (captain) 1 Sam Prattley

Replacements:16 Quentin MacDonald

17 Nic Mayhew 18 Ofa Tu’ungafasi 19 Joe Edwards20 Kara Pryor 21 Billy Guyton

22 Matt McGahan 23 Male Sa’u

Head Coach:Tana Umaga

Referee: Jaco van Heerden AR1 Jaco Peyper AR2 Pro Legoete TMO Shaun Veldsman

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PARKTOWN BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL

15 Tambwe Madosha14 Thando Mabasa13 Darron Solomon12 Tyler Murray11 Lelethu Mahlangeni10 Ethan Anderson9 Matthew van Huysteen8 Ethan Frasca7 Warrick Lang6 Lesiba Molopa5 Fortune Ndebele4 Che Carpede3 Nkosikhona Masuku2 Darnell Osuagwu1 Makasizwe Hlatswayo

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Liam Clay17 RrefilwePooe18 RonaldTselane19 Lucky Duma20 PatrickNdebele21 ChristopherSeymour22 JuniorNthlane

Coach: Andrew van Zyl

ST BENEDICT’S COLLEGE

15 Mark Kruger14 Jordan Peffer13 Tatendaishe Mujawo12 Aron Visser11 Adam Watt10 Keegan Marengo9 Sean Kruger8 Shawn Ingle7 Bradley Field6 Kingsley Martell5 Jordan Mbuyamba4 James Page3 Jordan Hutchison2 Takura Nyamasoka1 Kgosi Mpete

REPLACEMENTS: 16 CriscuoloAntonio17 KudakwasheMundove18 TorbinVerreyne19 TiagoDeBarros20 TrevorLynch21 DouglasKabuzi22 EnricoSetar

Coaches: Chris Tomsek, Morné Nel

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My eerste besoek aan Ellispark was saam met my Pa in 1945. My ouers was albei gebore Vrystaters, en soos die meeste seuns, ondersteun jy maar Pa se span.

Wat vir my interessant was, was dat die Vrystaatse span toe nog op ’n Vrydagaand van oral in die Vrystaat in Bloemfontein

bymekaar gekom het om per trein, ses-ses in ’n kompartement, na Johannesburg te reis. Die volgende oggend was spanoefening op Ellispark voor die wedstryd die middag.Transvaal was maar altyd my ‘tweede’ span. Die

Vrystaat het, glo ek, deur die jare ’n stewige bydrae vir beide die Transvaal en Noord Transvaal gelewer.

Die eerste keer dat ek ’n toets op Ellispark bygewoon het, was in 1949, die tweede toets teen Fred Allen se All Blacks. Dis ’n toets wat ek nooit sal of kan vergeet nie.

Ek is twee dae vroeër na ’n blindederm-operasie uit die hospitaal ontslaan. Die oggend van die toets was ek en my pa reeds vieruur voor die Noord-oostelike hek. Ons was gelukkig om plek te kry op die ou ‘peanut stand’.

Baie sal dit nog onthou as Hansie Brewis se toets. Hansie het die bal van Fonnie du Toit, sy skrumskakel, gemaak of hy wou skepskop

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PHILLIP MARKGRAAFF het sedert 1949 reeds 47 toetse op wat toe Ellispark was maar nou Emirates Airline Park heet, gesien en nie `n enkele een misgeloop nie. Dié week gesels hy in die eerste van twee aflewerings wat in die Lions se wedstrydprogram gepubliseer word, oor sy herinneringe wat oor 67 jaar strek.

en terwyl die All Black geaarsel het, het hy deurgeglip vir ’n drie.

Dié toets was die eerste van 47 opeenvolgende toetse wat ek bygewoon het. Dit sluit die toets teen die NZ Kavaliers in 1986 in en ook dié waarin ander lande teen mekaar gespeel het tydens die 1995- Wêreldbekertoernooi.

Elke toets, wen of verloor, was vir my ’n voorreg om by te woon. Nou nog kry ek’n knop in my keel wanneer die Springbokke op die veld draf.

Toetse toentertyd was maar dun gesaai. Ná die 1949 toets week was die volgende toer na Suid-Afrika eers vier jaar later toe John Solomon se 1953-Wallabies hier kom speel het. Hoewel die Springbokke hulle goed geroskam het op Ellispark was dit ’n gewilde span wat bekend was vir die aantreklike rugby wat hulle deurentyd gespeel het.

’n Groot skok het egter op die Springbokke gewag toe hulle teen die Wallabies op Nuwe- land verloor het. Die Springbokke het daarna gelukkig darem die laaste twee toetse gewen.

Dié reeks was ook die laaste van die legendariese agsteman, die ‘Windhond’ Hennie Muller. Min besef hoe lig gebou hy was. Hou sou beswaarlik plek gekry het in die hedendaagse Springbokspan. Hy het net ’n bietjie meer as 80kg geweeg het – vergeleke by vandag se agterspelers wat meer as 100kg weeg.

• Een van my rugby-hoogtepunte was die besoek van Robin Thompson se Britse Leeus

van 1955, die eerste Leeus-span wat sedert 1938 hier besoek kom aflê het. Die 1955-span was uiters gedug met baie goeie voorspelers en uitmuntende agterspelers – ’n baie goeie senterpaar en die legendariese losskakel, Cliff Morgan en ’n jong vleuel Tony O’Reilly.

In Augustus vind die eerste toets op Ellispark plaas voor ’n geskatte skare van meer as 90 000, ’n rekord wat baie jare gestaan het.Rustyd was die telling 23 – 11 in die guns van die Leeus en baie van die toeskouers het begin aanvaar ons sou die toets verloor.

Gelukkig het die Springbokke baie beter begin speel, en heel op die einde, met ’n briljante drie deur Theuns Briers, was die telling 23-22. Alles het van Jack van der Schyff se doelskop afgehang … maar dit was mis. Dit was ook die einde van Van der Schyff se toetsloopbaan.

’n En nou iets wat ook verband hou met hierdie toets. Enkele jare gelede sit ek in ’n kroegsitkamer van ’n hotel êrens aan die Weskus en rugby kyk. Die Sharks speel teen die Reds van Australië.

Die wedstryd het pas begin toe ’n man by my aansluit. Die Sharks sukkel aanvanklik, maar teen die einde druk hulle ’n drie.

Die Springbokskrumskakel Ruan Pienaar lê aan pale toe. Die drie was in die hoek en die skop baie skuins. Skop hy oor, wen die Sharks, skop hy mis, wen die Reds.

Die man langs my verwys toe na die skop van Van der Schyff. Die groot druk is nou op die skopper, sê hy. Gelukkig is die skop oor en die Sharks wen.

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Die twee van ons begin gesels oor die 1955 toets. Hy vertel dat hy ook by die toets was. My vraag was: “Waar het jy gesit?”

“Nee,” sê hy, “ek was die Springbok wat die drie gedruk het. My naam is Theuns Briers.” (Sien hooffoto op bl 20)

Wat ’n aangename toevallige ontmoeting met een van my helde!

Tydens hierdie reeks is nog ’n held gebore, Karel Van Vollenhoven. Dit was vir almal ’n groot skok toe hy besluit het om as ’n beroepspeler by St Helens in Engeland aan te sluit. Sy drie drieë teen die Leeus in die tweede toets op Nuweland sal altyd onthou word. Suid-Afrika het uiteindelik die reeks met die Leeus gedeel, twee toetse elk.

’n Kort toer deur die Franse volg toe in 1958, hul eerste aan Suid-Afrika. Die Springbokke verloor toe 9-5 op Ellispark nadat ons op Nuweland 3-elk gelykop gespeel het.

Vanaf 1960 tot 1963 het ons elke jaar ’n toetsreeks in SA aangebied: Nieu-Seeland (1960), Australië (1961), die Britse Leeus (1962) en Australië (1963). Ons het drie toetsreekse gewen, met die een teen Australië in 1963 wat gedeel is.

Die reeks teen Frankryk in 1967 het Suid-Afrika gewen maar toe die wedstryd op Ellispark met 19-14 verloor.

Terwyl ek so deur die lys van wedstryde teen Frankryk op Ellispark blaai het ek tot die ontstellende besef gekom dat die Springbokke nog elke wedstryd teen Frankryk hier

verloor het. Ek sal nooit vergeet hoe Guy Camberabero in 1967 ons voos geskepskop het nie. Hy was dodelik!

Die vraag sal seker by die lesers opduik waar ek altyd kaartjies vir die toetse gekry het?

Dit was werklik nie ’n probleem tot 1984 toe die nuwe Ellispark in Junie 1984 ingewy is nie. Voor dit was die groot truuk om ’n sitplekkie op die bekende en beroemde ‘peanut verhoog’ aan die Oostekant te kry. Voor hierdie verhoog was daar duisende staanplekke waar toeskouers dikwels bloot gaan sit het.

Wanneer die stadion begin opvul het, was dit egter ’n probleem om die sittendes sover te kry om op te staan om sodoende meer toeskouers te kan huisves. Menigte gevegte het uitgebreek wanneer die voormalige SAP en beamptes van die Transvaalse Rugby-unie die voorste toeskouers gedwing het om op te staan.

Dit het natuurlik veroorsaak dat die agterste toeskouers ook moes opstaan. Om die voorstes dus weer te dwing om te sit is nartjies baie dikwels ingespan om die balhoriges te dwing om weer te sit.

Vroeër is koeldranke ook in bottels verkoop – en so ’n bottel kan verander in ’n baie dodelike projektiel wanneer iemand raakgegooi word.

(Lees aanstaande week wanneer Phillip Markgraaf praat oor die verkryging van kaartjies, die 1995-Wêreldbekertoernooi en die jare daarna)

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