The SACS U15A team suffered their first defeat of the season on Saturday. After the jubilation of beating Paarl Gim the week before it was a bitter pill to swallow especially since against Landbou we actually had more possession and used it better than the week before. The final score was 17-3 to Boland.
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Boland are a quality side who have a good pack, a flyhalf with an educated boot and definitely the best defence we have come up against. That said we scrummed well, our lineouts were good and our breakdown work was excellent. In short we had enough ball and enough opportunities but were unable to convert them.
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SACS were first of the scoreboard as Justin Thomas coverted a penalty. SACS then applied more pressure and had a succession of five metre scrums from which we should have scored. Boland punished us as the first time they got into our 22m-area they broke blind and went over in the corner. The score was 5-3 at the interval.
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In the second half we were again close to scoring on a number of occasions. Caleb Rightford was tantalisingly close with pick-and-go’s on two occasions and Suwi Chibale was kept out by strong defence on more than one occasion. We missed touch with a penalty kick to the corner and Boland after one phase ran the length to score. Their final try was a very good one as a piece of individual brilliance by the right-wing saw them seal the game with a score in the corner.
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The SACS boys were despondent after the game but we played well enough and can take heart out of the performance but on field discipline can be improved though as can the collective reaction to times of adversity.
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This week we face another huge but inspiring challenge as we prepare and wait for the arrival of Paul Roos Gimanasium, a team with traditional forward strength and serious gas out wide. Another home defeat is not an option, bring ‘em on!
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