Die voormalige Protea-rugbyspeler, oom Nicodemus (Nicky) Arends, van Mamre mis steeds nie een wedstryd van sy geliefde Hamlets nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arends het op \u2019n jong ouderdom van 19 jaar in Hamlets se tweede span reeds sy merk gemaak en is n\u00e1 \u2019n paar goeie vertonings tot die hakerposisie in die A-span bevorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die buksie van \u2019n haker wat die skaal net so oor die 70 kg getrek het, was \u2019n doring in die vlees van menige teenstander wat bont moes staan as hy op die aanval was. Arends se goeie spel vir Hamlets het hom \u2019n plek in die destydse Malmesbury-uniespan en Boland se tweede spanne besorg waarna hy vir hom \u2019n plek in die Boland-A-span losgespeel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arends, wat ook soms as flank en agsteman in Hamlets se span waarge\u00adneem het, s\u00ea dat fiksheid een van sy grootste pluspunte was toe hy rugby gespeel het. Hy is in 1971 na die Protea-proewe genooi waar hy teen van die beste spelers in sy posisie en strawwe teenstand in aanraking gekom het, maar het deurgedruk en in 1971 saam met die Protea-span na Engeland getoer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het 13 Desember in Engeland geland en ons eerste wedstryd was op 16 Desember en ons het met 3-14 teen Hertfordshire verloor,\u201d s\u00ea die rugby\u00adheld wat op 13 November sy 76ste verjaar\u00addag vier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Arends het hulle goed teen die Engelse-spanne gevaar met twee oorwinnings teen Oxfordshire (33-55) en \u2019n Londense span (19-12) asook twee gelykopuitslae en drie verlore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAlhoewel ons gesukkel het om aan die swaar moddervelde gewoond te raak, het ons later op die toer verbe\u00adter. Die wedstryd wat vir my op die toer uitgestaan het, was beslis die een teen Oxfordshire, toe ons met 33-5 gewen het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Nekbesering teen Hopefield in 1972 het hom vir \u2019n paar maande buite aksie gehou totdat hy weer laat in die seisoen in \u2019n derby-wedstryd tussen Hamlets en Oaks betrokke was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit het altyd die beste rugby uit die twee spanne gebring omdat albei span\u00adne opwindende hardlooprugby gespeel het. My unie-spanmaat, Lodewyk Passens van Oaks, het my altyd opdraande gegee omdat hy my spel geken het, maar ons was steeds groot vriende n\u00e1 harde wedstryde.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arends het nie baie beserings opge\u00addoen nie, maar \u2019n tweede nekbesering in 1973, waar sy nekwerwels geskuif het, het hom laat besluit om sy rugby\u00adstewels op te hang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het toe op rugby-afrigting gekon\u00adsentreer en vandag praat baie spelers van hom as \u201chulle afrigter\u201d. Spelers herstel deesdae baie vinniger van beserings omdat daar beter rehabilita\u00adsie\u00adprogramme as destyds is, meen Arends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arends, \u2019n bouer van beroep, s\u00ea Covid-19 se tydelik ontwrigting in rugby benadeel die spel en sit ontwik\u00adkeling verder terug. Hamlets sal nou nog ses maande langer moet wag voor die span teen die beste klubspanne van die Westelike Provinsie-rugbyunie in die Superliga A te staan gaan kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy sukses is te dankie aan sy ma, Charlotte, sy vrou, Myrtle, asook sy familie en vriende wat hom altyd in sy rugbyloopbaan ondersteun het. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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