{"id":784,"date":"2025-09-29T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:16:58","slug":"weekend-recap-stop-start-ereklasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap: Stop\/Start Ereklasse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ereklasse Round 4 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>29 September, Amsterdam<\/strong><\/em>, The headline clash of Round Four saw <strong>RC Eemland 1<\/strong> host <strong>Rotterdam RC 1<\/strong> in Amersfoort. Both sides came into the fixture licking their wounds after defeats the previous week, desperate for a response. For Eemland, the motivation was doubled \u2013 pride on home soil \u2013 while Rotterdam were out to prove they could travel well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the visitors who struck first. A clever line break from <strong>Sam Forgarty<\/strong> opened the space for the ever-dangerous <strong>Will Maddocks<\/strong>, who finished to put RRC on the board. Eemland, though, answered immediately and showed plenty of fight in a back-and-forth opening half. With scrummaging power \u2013 their trademark weapon in recent seasons \u2013 they kept themselves in the contest, but Rotterdam\u2019s sharp finishing kept them ahead, taking a <strong>28\u201321 lead into the break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half belonged largely to Rotterdam. Dominant at the lineout and quick to capitalise on turnovers, they dictated the scoreboard and pulled clear, eventually securing a <strong>43\u201326 victory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Eemland, there were bright sparks \u2013 not least the young talent emerging through their programme \u2013 but they\u2019ll rue the lack of continuity in their play. The stop-start nature of the match, with whistles breaking momentum every few phases, made it difficult for either side to sustain rhythm. A staggering <strong>49 points in the first half<\/strong> underlines the chaotic nature of proceedings \u2013 high-scoring yet fragmented, with too many stoppages giving the game an American football feel. It\u2019s an area the Dutch game will need to address if Ereklasse is to push on in quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rotterdam, meanwhile, are still in a rebuilding phase after losing several key players last season, but this win will feel like a step forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Round 4 Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>RC \u2019t Gooi 1<\/strong> 47 \u2013 30 <strong>RC DIOK 1<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CAS RC 1<\/strong> 52 \u2013 21 <strong>BRC 1<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>RFC Haarlem 1<\/strong> 31 \u2013 3 <strong>RFC Oisterwijk Oysters 1<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Haagsche RC 1<\/strong> 94 \u2013 3 <strong>AAC 1<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>RC The Dukes 1<\/strong> 28 \u2013 17 <strong>RC Hoek van Holland 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ereklasse Round 4 29 September, Amsterdam, The headline clash of Round Four saw RC Eemland 1 host Rotterdam RC 1 in Amersfoort. Both sides came into the fixture licking their wounds after defeats the previous week, desperate for a response. For Eemland, the motivation was doubled \u2013 pride on home soil \u2013 while Rotterdam were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ereklasse-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1219.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutchrugbymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}