Puk opponents will have double vision

One would excuse this year’s Varsity Cup contenders if they have double vision when they are confronted with the team of the NWU Puk during the next two months.
  Not only will the Pukke attempt to baffle their opponents with running rugby, but on top of it all, this team will do it with identical twins in its ranks.

  The 21 year-old Jacobs brothers, Niëll and Ruan, will be wearing the numbers 10 and 13 jerseys respectively when the Potchefstroomers face Tukkies on Monday in Pretoria for their first match.
  “We are immensely looking forward to the Varsity Cup and especially our first match,” Ruan said.
  “We are from Pretoria and to go and play there against Tuks will be very special. However, al my family members and friends now support Puk.”
  Niëll, the elder brother, with a full 30 seconds, has already been in Potchefstroom since June last year, but Ruan only joined the NUW Puk Rugby Institute earlier this month.

 
Double-yoke danger ... Ruan (left) and Niëll Jacobs, two of the NWU Puk’s greatest rugby assets, will be tormenting opponents with their spritely moves in the Varsity Cup as from next week.

  “To be coached by someone of Rudy’s (Joubert, Puk coach) quality is an opportunity not one of the two of us could let it pass by.
  “He has new ideas every day and knows what it takes to play at top level.”
As far as can be established, these two are the first identical twins to represent this team together.
  “This is not actually new to us, since we also were the first identical twins to play together for our high school’s first team (Affies) and then for Kovsies,” Ruan said.
  “We have considered trying to trick our girlfriends, and to go on each other’s appointments, but as yet we have been unable to pluck up enough courage to do so.”
  “We like the same music and films, but there are a large number of differences. Niëll is slightly larger than I am and is also the more serious one, whilst few things bother me.”
  One thing they both indeed have in common is their aspiration to some day wear the Green-and-Gold.
  “Potchefstroom is the ideal place to prepare us for the next level and, to crown it all, there is no one I rather wish to have next to me on the field, than Niëll.”
   “We know each other excellently and know what the other one is going to do even before he himself knows. Hopefully this will help us in winning Tukkies and the Varsity Cup.”