UCT Reach another Semi Final of the Varsity Cup
After a long day at work, I gave James a call to see if he was keen for a beer somewhere. After a little thought we decided to catch one of the “last” home games of the season for Ikey Tigers at UCT. We arrived and the wind was pretty cold but the crowds continued to flow in. Before the game started there must have been around 5000 people watching, not bad at all for a Varsity game. We ended up having some drinks and talking “business” while enjoying the game which UCT won 38-24 sending them to their third semi final in a row.
Needing this game to win to make the semi finals, the UCT team came out firing. Taking a 10 – 0 lead early into the game. It must be said that the UCT team looked a lot fitter, stronger and more ready then the Tuks side (who couldn’t control the wind in Cape Town) they were playing against. The boys gave the crowd a good show down on the “Green Mile” with some good handling and some awesome running rugby. Definitely some future prospects for the WP/Stormers in the up coming season. There were a couple of player who looked really good, one was the massve prop Grant Kemp aswell as Marcello Sampson on wing, Kemp was subbed by Chris Heiburg who got the crowd going with a 40 metre sprint, knocking down anything in his path (I wouldn’t like to get in his way). Doug Mallett came in at Flyhalf for usual regular Matt Rosslee and played an excellent all round game at Flyhalf. I ended up seeing a few mates who I hadn’t seen in a while on the field and really enjoyed watching the game, even the Ikey Tiger himself was enjoying it:
Should have seen the Ikey Tiger’s mascot ”makking” the chicks, he didn’t hold back at all. What a legend! We should learn to take a page out of his book. Good luck to UCT in their semi final match, I am pretty sure I will end up going for some drinks again down at UCT to watch it, maybe we might even get lucky enough to see James on TV after I get him drunk enough to streak!
