Nelson Mandela, the father of the nation, died on December 5 2013 at the age of 95.
A great leader who respected all and earned the respect of all.
He will be remembered forever throughout the world.
Wynberg Rugby Festival 2014
The Wynberg Rugby festival takes place on 01 and 03 May 2014 Read More →
SA rugby player makes it onto American Football team
Struggling former rugby union player Daniel Adongo has found his true calling in life – American football. The big surprise of it all is that the Kenyan born player was not even considering a future in NFL. Read More →
School rugby quotas
Okay this one is not as bad as the title might lead you to believe. It’s has nothing to do with politics or transformation. Instead it’s about an idea I thought of to deal with an imminent threat that has the undesirable ability to undermine the integrity and enjoyment of schoolboy rugby.
The danger I’m talking about the so-called “arms race” Read More →
Smaller rugby schools’ players dominate Golden Lions awards 2013
This year’s annual Golden Lions awards ceremony turned out to be a fitting tribute to the big role smaller schools still play in developing talent for senior rugby. Some of those rewarded for achievement in the different team categories (u19, u21 and senior) schooled at the likes of Alberton, Bredasdorp, Hartswater, Marais Viljoen, Pretoria North, Standerton and Transvalia. Read More →
Big Fish in a Little Pond
I watched a CNN interview with author Malcolm Gladwell a short while back. In it he discusses his latest book “David and Golliath”. This is the same Gladwell that wrote the book Outliers in which he highlights the school age sportsman advantages of being born earlier in the calendar year. Read More →
SARU may have to answer for quotas
An interesting article coming from the PlanetRugby.com website
Civil rights organisation AfriForum has warned the South African Rugby Union in a letter that its decision to implement racial quotas in the Vodacom Cup series next year Read More →
Dale, Queen’s & Selborne rugby fixtures 2014
Provisional 2014 rugby fixtures for the Border region powerhouse schools Read More →
Brendan Venter sluit aan by Paul Roos afrigtingspan
Brendan Venter sluit aan en Hein Kriek sal steeds die eerstespan hoofafrigter wees.
Brief vanaf Frans van Niekerk, die Paul Roos hoof van rugby: Read More →
EP Kings u19 contracted players for 2014
The EP Kings under-19 team did incredibly well to earn themselves promotion this year after hitting form towards the end of the Currie Cup B-division season. They came from third on the log to win the title and then beat Border in the promotion-relegation play-off. This means that their under-19 team will be playing against all the big unions in the under-19 A-division championship in 2014. Read More →
Slow start for Pieter Rossouw’s ‘Noord vs Suid’ Fest
Well the idea might not be original but it’s always been a great one. Get the top schools from the Noordvaal to play the best that the Western Cape has to offer on an annual basis. These schools so seldom get the chance to meet on the rugby field, simple because of the logistics.
Putting the theory into practice has not been quite so easy. Read More →
BHP SA Schoolboy Rugby Top 75 2009 – 2013
BoishaaiPa has been compiling a ranking system since 2009. Here is the combined effect of those 5 schoolboy rugby seasons. Read More →
Paul Roos coach to face the music
Hein Kriek finds himself in a difficult position at the moment and there is a possibility that he could be relieved of his position as 1st XV head coach at Paul Roos.
Up until now Kriek has steadily being building a reputation as a top class schoolboy rugby coach.
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KZN looking for a new Craven Week forwards coach
The departure of coach Sean Erasmus from Glenwood to Paarl Boys High will leave the KwaZulu-Natal under-18 Craven Week team with a vacancy at forwards coach.
The clear cut criteria for selection of a new assistant coach has been provided by the KZNRU High Schools’ Association: Read More →
Why only 24 schools are part of the “anti-poaching” charter
Email sent in:
The bloggers on schoolboyrugby.co.za are making far too much about who is on and who is not on the list of 24 schools.
What no one has noticed is that these 24 for schools are all part of the informal organisation of state-aided monastic boys’ high schools that has been in existence for about 17 years now. Read More →
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