Boland adds dessert to club rugby’s bread and butter

CLUB rugby is more than just a casual pastime in the Boland. In these parts its more like a religion, and Saturdays are when supporters fill their spiritual cups.

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Club rugby is the heart and soul of many communities, with people playing organised rugby from Wellington in the Winelands to Saldanha on the West Coast; from Grabouw in the Overberg to Vanrhynsdorp close to the Northern Cape border. Boland boast around 220 clubs and about 24,000 registered players, by far the most of any other union in the country.

All of this culminates at the end of the season into the Boland Top 12, which is a fiercely contested competition, with the best of the best competing to be the union's top team.

Those games, especially the semifinals and finals at Boland Stadium, are normally packed to the rafters with supporters coming to support their teams from far and wide.

However, the massive support hasn‘t always spilled over to the Boland Cavaliers provincial team, who before last Sunday’s Currie Cup opener against the Cheetahs had played in an empty stadium for the longest time.