Poorte to hold senior trials

Roodepoort Rugby Club will be holding their senior trials on Saturday, 17 April at Scorpion Park (Hoërskool Die Burger).

The scheduled internal trials will be in the chukkas format where the various teams will play against each other for 20 minutes at a time.

The club is expecting between 120 and 150 players to participate, and invites all sponsors wanting to do displays or marketing, or even just join them for a bite and a beer to please come to the trials on the day.

“It’s great to have the players back on the field after a long hiatus, and I’m really happy to see the number of youngsters coming through challenging for the 1st XV positions.

“The management, coaches and support staff have worked hard to ensure that all of our players are well conditioned and safe during pre-season training, and look forward to this being translated on the field when we take on the rest of the Pirates Grand Challenge sides,” said the club’s Vice-chairperson Commercial and Legal, Dennis Armstrong.

Due to Covid-19 protocols the club needs to know in advance who will be attending so that they can add them to the pre-approved list.

“We are going to have controlled contact and let the various age groups play against each other just to get some game time under their belt, and then roll it up onto the seniors.

“Our Police side will not be participating yet because they are only getting into phase two now, so we will have further trials with the seniors once they come on board in a week or two weeks’ time.

“It’s going to be a long, hard season, and we don’t want to risk getting any injuries with a pointless contact session. It’s a good feeling that we are getting into almost playing,” said Club Chairman, Mathys Booyens.

The trials will start as follow:

– 3pm: U/19 vs U/20

– 3.20pm: U/20 vs U/21

– 3.40pm: U/21 vs U/19

– 4pm: Team Grey vs Team Blue (seniors)

– 4.20pm: Team Blue vs U/21

– 4.40pm: Team Grey vs U/21

– 5pm: Team Blue vs Team Grey (senior’s game 30 minutes)