{"id":101703,"date":"2019-09-14T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=101703"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:22:53","slug":"maer-attie-rank-hoog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/09\/14\/maer-attie-rank-hoog\/","title":{"rendered":"Maer Attie rank hoog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met sy geraamde onthou-foto stap Attie Britz by die redaksiekantoor in en vertel van die \u201clekker ou dae\u201d op die rugbyvelde.<br \/>\nDi\u00e9 foto laat sy hart warm klop, want daardie skraal jong man wat so hoog spring \u201cis ek!\u201d vertel hy trots.<\/p>\n<p>Attie was in 1972 deel van die eerste rugbyspan van Ho\u00ebrskool Ermelo. Later het hy vir die Suidoos o\/20 span en vir Koolvelde uitgedraf.<br \/>\nHy was maar nog \u2019n steeds maer outjie toe hy as deel van die Koolveldespan uitgedraf het teen Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie Belfast ouens het my sommer met die skouers omgestamp. Daar was \u2019n paar gr\u00f3\u00f3t manne in hul span.\u201d Geen wonder die Belfast rugbyveld het bekend gestaan as die \u201cVeld van die lang bome\u201d nie.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101705\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101705\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/19jj7-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/19jj7-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/19jj7-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stix Steyn en Attie Britz het mekaar na meer as 40 jaar vir die eerste keer weer gesien. Stix het saam met hom in die eerstespan gespeel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Met die w\u00eareldrugby wat almal nou aan die kook het, verlang hy terug na die jare toe hy so hoog in die rugbylyn kon rank. Na vriendskap en kameraderie gedurende en na die wedstryde.<br \/>\nDit is waarom hy die afgelope paar maande op Facebook na sy ou rugbymaats van Ho\u00ebrskool Ermelo begin soek het en ook \u2019n re\u00fcnie beplan.<\/p>\n<p>Hy het juis verlede week vir Stix Steyn opgespoor en saam met hom by die Ermelo Rolbalklub gekuier.<\/p>\n<p>Attie vra sy oud-spanmaats op hom te bel by 082 492 4495 (e-pos: attiebritz@telkomsa.net) sodat hy kan begin met re\u00eblings vir \u2019n re\u00fcnie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Sy spanmaats was: Pethri de Villiers (heelagter), Hekkie Swart (vleuel), Johnny le Roux (vleuel), Koot Werner (senter), Bombie Saaiman (senter), Dawid Diener (losskakel), Stix Steyn (skrumskakel), Louis Wolfaardt (haker), Cas van der Berg (voorry), Nick Brummer (voorry), Derick Altena (slot saam met Attie), Johan Landman (flank), Lourens Human (flank) en Majag van Rensburg (kaptein en agsteman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In die vroe\u00eb 1970\u2019s mag jy nie opgetel geword het in die lynstaan nie, jy het sommer vanself so hoog gespring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":101704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20687,20688,10367,18835,10450,13736,12964,20689,10366,20690,19667],"class_list":["post-101703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-attie-britz","tag-belfast-rugby","tag-betroubare-nuus","tag-klubrugby","tag-middelburg-nuus","tag-middelburg-rugby","tag-middelburg-sport","tag-oud-rugby-spelers","tag-plaaslike-nuus","tag-suidoos-oudspelers","tag-suidoos-rugby"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Attie Britz","Belfast rugby","betroubare nuus","klubrugby","middelburg nuus","middelburg rugby","Middelburg sport","oud rugby spelers","plaaslike nuus","suidoos oudspelers","suidoos rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}