Dit het een minuut en 30 sekondes en drie fases gevat. Dit is al. Daarna was Witteberg se lot verseel. Helpmekaar het Saterdag in Bethlehem ‘n rugbyles gegee wat in 5-77 ge\u00ebindig het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van die afskop tot die laaste sekonde was dit ‘n eensydige demonstrasie van fisiese krag, taktiese intelligensie en meedo\u00ebnlose werk by die afbreekpunte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Witteberg was dit ‘n lang, pynlike middag wat hulle sal wil vergeet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helpmekaar het nie tyd gemors nie, hulle het gekom om sake te doen, en die tempo wat hulle van die begin af gehandhaaf het, was iets wat Witteberg eenvoudig nie kon hanteer nie. Hulle het na ‘n minuut en ‘n half gaan druk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘n Minuut na die eerste drie was Helpies weer onder die pale. Hierdie keer was dit hul nommer 12 wat die bal uit ‘n Witteberg-speler se hande gegryp het en onder die verdediging uitgetrek het. Skielik was dit 12-0, en die wedstryd was eintlik reeds verby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die intensiteit waarmee Helpmekaar die openingskwartier benader het, was verstommend. Witteberg het gesukkel om asem te kry, laat staan momentum te bou. Teen die 11de minuut het Helpies se skrumskakel ‘n slim skoppie oor die verdediging geplaas, Helpies het die bal teruggekry, dit baie wyd gestuur na ‘n losgemaal, en weer oor die doellyn geduik. 17-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vier minute later het die dryfmaal-dominansie begin, ‘n wapen wat Witteberg deur die middag sou teister. In die 15de minuut het Helpmekaar geduld gewys om die dryfmaal aan die gang te kry, en toe hulle eers momentum gehad het, was daar geen manier om hulle te stop nie. 24-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drie minute later het hulle dit weer gedoen. Witteberg se voorspelers het eenvoudig nie ‘n antwoord gehad vir Helpmekaar se fisieke pak nie. 29-0, en die eerste helfte was nog nie eens halfpad verby nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teen die 28ste minuut het Helpies ‘n vinnige strafskop getik en oorgeduik. Die tempo het nooit verslap nie, die druk het nooit verlig nie. Witteberg was besig om verdrink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar dit was die 32ste minuut se drie wat Helpmekaar se aanvallende variasie ten toon gestel het. Hulle het die dryfmaal opgesit, Witteberg se verdedigers het gereed gemaak vir nog ‘n brute voorspelergedryf, maar toe het die nege hom uitgehaal en vinnig wyd gespeel vir die vleuel om in die hoek oor te duik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
41-0 teen rustyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Witteberg gehoop het die rustyd sou momentum verander, het Helpies hulle vinnig verkeerd bewys. Die manne van Braamfontein het ‘n dominante skrum gewen, goeie voetwerk getoon, en weer oor die doellyn gegaan. 48-0, en die tweede helfte het skaars begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die 41ste minuut het Helpies ‘n verwoestende teenaaval geloods wat vir weke vorentoe bekyk sal word in video-analise. Die heelagter het met die res van die agterlyn aangesluit, onglooflike hande is getoon, en Helpmekaar het in die hoek gaan druk. 53-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was rugby van die hoogste gehalte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die 43ste minuut het Witteberg se blitsige heelagter goed in die lyn ingekom. Hy was op spoed, en niemand kon hom keer nie. Skielik was daar lewe in die tuisspan, en hulle het oor die doellyn geduik vir hul eerste punte van die dag: 53-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was ‘n oomblik van verligting vir Witteberg, maar Helpmekaar was nog lank nie klaar nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vier minute later was Helpies weer op die voorvoet. ‘n Besonderse mooi kort aangee het hul speler in spasie gesit om te gaan druk. 60-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die damwal wat reeds gebars het, het nou aan flarde begin val. In die 50ste minuut het Helpmekaar van ‘n gebroke lynstaan die bal in hand gehou, goeie ondersteuningspel getoon, en besonderse balhantering ten toon gestel om weer oor te gaan. 67-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met sewe minute oor het hulle weer gedruk. 72-5. Dit was nou net ‘n geval van hoeveel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die laaste minuut het dit gelyk asof Witteberg nog ‘n troosdrie sou druk, maar Helpmekaar se verdediging het sterk gehou. Selfs met die wedstryd lankal beslis, het hulle geweier om toe te gee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met tyd verstreke het Helpmekaar ‘n strafskop gekry en dit vinnig getik. Uit hul eie kwartgebied het hulle die aanval geloots \u2013 balhantering, tempo, intensiteit \u2013 en die laaste drie van die dag gaan druk. 77-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Tjaart van der walt, direktur van rugby by Helpmekaar, het dit goed gegaan, maar daar is nog baie werk wat voorl\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ons het baie foute gemaak,dit was maar ‘n eerste wedstryd van die seisoen, dit is maar wat dit was,” het hy ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witteberg het teen ‘n masjien gespeel wat van die eerste minuut af in ‘n ander rat gewerk het. Volgens Robert Bosch, hoofafrigter van Witteberg se 1ste XV, het hulle baie geleer uit die wedstryd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die telling van 77-5 vertel die verhaal. Maar die syfers vertel nie van Helpmekaar se meedo\u00ebnlose intensiteit nie, die variasie in hul aanval, of die manier waarop hulle vir 70 minute teen ‘n oorwonne teenstander gespeel het asof die telling 0-0 was nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is die teken van ‘n span met standaarde, dissipline en ambisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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