The club rugby season draws to a close at the home of Cape rugby on Saturday – Newlands.
It’s there where the only two teams left in the competition, defending champions Maties and Durbell, will contest the inaugural Super League A final.
Oudergewoonte, Maties will enter the match as firm favourites to hold on to the title they won last season.
Such is the talent and the depth at Maties that Stormers scrumhalf Paul de Wet was on the bench in their 50-32 win over UniMil in the semifinals at City Park last week.
With the likes of winger Edwill van der Merwe in their squad, South Africa’s Varsity Cup champions will be tough to stop in the final.
Opposing them is a Durbell side that had their ups and downs of late.
But they pulled out all the stops against False Bay in the semifinal to win that match 19-12.
Durbell, though, will enter the match knowing they suffered a hammering against the champions the last time the two sides met. But they have a habit of getting revenge when the odds are stacked against them.
During regular season, Durbell finished in third place on the log and suffered only two defeats throughout the year.
The first of those defeats were against False Bay, who beat them 37-34 in their fifth match of the season.
But Durbell dealt with False Bay last weekend and beat them to claim their spot in the final.
The only other team that managed to get the better of coach Johann Kotze’s men was Maties.
And they did so with a huge bang, annihilating the finalists 82-5.
You can expect the men from Durbanville to use that result as a motivating factor heading into the game.
Led by veteran prop Ashton Contant, Durbell will have to be at the top of their game mentally and physically if they want to upstage the Stellenbosch powerhouses.
Maties, meanwhile, suffered only one defeat all season – to varsity rivals UCT. Apart from that 27-25 setback, they bulldozed the rest of the league.
When the final points were tallied, Maties had a positive points difference of 755 in 14 matches.
That means they beat their opposition by an average points difference of almost 54.
The students klapped one century – against Belhar, beating the relegated team 148-3.
They ended one short of another honderdtal when they beat Tygerberg 99-7.
The result against Durbell was the fourth most points they scored, after also beating Brackenfell 85-19.