{"id":119097,"date":"2020-04-17T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=119097"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:17:27","slug":"wereldbeker-wenkombinasie-dalk-weer-op-loftus-verenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/04\/17\/wereldbeker-wenkombinasie-dalk-weer-op-loftus-verenig\/","title":{"rendered":"W\u00eareldbeker wenkombinasie dalk weer op Loftus verenig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wenkombinasie? Jy kan nie stry teen \u2019n w\u00eareldbeker nie!<\/p>\n<p>Die twee het in 2007 saamgespan om John Smit se span na w\u00eareldbekerglorie te lei.<br \/>\nDie Blou Bulle president, Willem Strauss, het bevestig daar is gesprekke tussen White en Gericke en dat die oud Bokafrigter \u2019n mandaat het om sy bestuurspan saam te stel. Met die huidige inperking het alle onderhandelinge egter tot stilstand gekom<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119099\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119099\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/willemss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/willemss.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/willemss-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blou Bulle unie president Willem Strauss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Gericke is \u2019n Blou Bul in murg en been en het vir die destydse Noord-Transvaal laerskole as kaptein op flank uitgedraf, in \u2019n span waar Uli Schmidt die skrumskakel was. Hy het sy skoolloopbaan aan Laerskool en Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark voltooi en bekend geword as een van die beste middelafstand atlete wat die land opgelewer het.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 het die Strauss, toe Mpumalanga Rugby-unie se uitvoerende hoof, dr Gericke by die Puma rugbyspan betrek, waar hy groot sukses behaal het. Hy het \u2019n groot rol gespeel as motiveerder toe die Pumas die Blou Bulle in die Sailbeker eindstryd in Port Elizabeth geklop het.<br \/>\nDie span is gebrei deur twee skole afrigters, Poerie van Rooyen en Chris Grobler toe dr Gericke betrokke geraak het. Grobler het in 1991 as afrigter van HTS Middelburg die Direkteurstrofee eindstryd teen Menlopark gewen en het later voortgegaan om die Pumas alleen af te rig.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119101\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119101\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/use-now-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/use-now-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/04\/use-now-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henning Gericke en Uli Schmidt saam met die legendariese dr Danie Craven op \u2019n Noord-Transvaal laerskole spanfoto van 1973.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dit is bekend dat Strauss dr Gericke hoog aanslaan, terwyl die 2007 span, waar hy die kopdokter was, groot lof vir hom het. Hy het nogsteeds kontak met daardie span se spelers.<\/p>\n<p>By navraag het dr Gericke ges\u00ea hy en White was al in gesprek en dat hy nog \u2019n besluit moet neem, nadat hy die laaste paar jaar \u2019n verskil in die korporatiewe w\u00eareld gemaak het.<\/p>\n<p>Wanneer rugby na Loftus terugkeer, kan die w\u00eareldbeker wenners van White en Gericke dalk net weer vir glorie sorg en die Blou Bul ondersteuners se gejuig tot in die Hotel 224 gehoor word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Henning Gericke bly nou wel nie in die Hotel 224 nie, maar hy bly naby genoeg aan Loftus Versfeld om sommer oor te stap na die Blou Bulle hoofkwartier toe.<br \/>\nEn met Jake White in beheer op Loftus is die logiese uitvloeisel \u2019n White\/Gericke wenkombinasie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":119098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-119097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119097","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=119097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}