A-SQUARE-Forklift Alberton rugby club opened up their rugby season playing the first friendly match against Harlequins rugby club on Saturday, February 25, in Pretoria. The local team from Alberton struggled to get going but managed in the end to a comfortable 20-6 victory.
Harlequins started out strong and quickly jumped to a 6-0 lead. But after some stern words from captain BB Hefer, the Alberton side started to play their style of rugby.
The forwards laid a great platform from loose play and the scrums. Harlequins tall timber made it exceptionally difficult at line-out time.
Late in the first half, live-wire scrumhalf Donovan Putter ran a lateral line with debutant Brian Thysse straitening up to go over for the first of three tries.
The Alberton lads went into the shed with an 8-6 lead compliments of the boot of Henry Payne.
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In the second half the Alberton forwards dominated up front, but the backs failed to show their real class due to poor weather conditions.
A well-worked forward effort saw Benna Lotter go over for his first try of the season.
Coach Wayne Williams made a couple of changes halfway through the second half and his decision bore fruit when Theuns van der Merwe burst through a half-gap and offloading to yet another debutant in Caltino Jones. Jones had plenty of work to do and chipped the ball past the defence and turned on the pace to go over the whitewash.
The next friendly match will be played on March 11 at Alberton rugby club.
The result ended up in a 20-6 victory for the Alberton side.
The other results were:
Alberton second XV beat Quins 48-13.
Both the u.19 and u.21 sides lost their matches.
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