Written by Tony Stoops of Stoopstats.co.za
Just as the first sighting of a robin signifies the start of spring in England, so the massive Interschools clash in Paarl, the SWD showdown and the start of the second round of the southern suburbs derbies on Saturday 3 August 2013 herald the closing stages of the local schools rugby season.…
Rudolph Gerhardus Snyman or just plain RG Snyman was we know the 2.05 metre tall giant from Affies has been called up to replace JD Schickerling in the SA Schools team to face England, France and Wales in an international under-18 series to be held during August. …
The Gauteng English-medium schools have won the inaugural Grogper Cup. They bounced back to beat their KwaZulu-Natal opponents 7-6 in a closely contested competition.…
Long after people forget the match details or the final score of 51-21 from the televised Grey College versus Grey High game, they will still remember the horrific leg injury that standout Grey High forward Martin Groenewald sustained. For many including Martin’s teammates, the extent of the injury was almost too much to bear and they had to look away. It’s not something you wish to see happen to anyone, yet alone a player who has genuine potential to go far in rugby.…
Saturday, 03 August 2013 marks the date for the biggest schoolboy rugby match on the South African calendar. Paarl Gymnasium and HJS Paarl Boys High, two of the perennial powerhouse rugby schools in the country go head to head in the derby of derbies.…
For a second year running the SA Schools team will take part in a quadrangular international under-18 series against England, France and Wales. Last year the series proved to be a huge success and was a fitting reward for boys who had made the national team. …
Affies, the current number one ranked rugby school in South Africa scored eight tries as part of a 53-23 victory against Glenwood on Dixon’s field in Durban.…
Update: u19 WP 10 – 34 Bulls. u21: WP 14 – 6 Bulls. The Western Province under-19 and under-21 teams face uphill battles today when they take on the Bulls team City Park in Cape Town today (first kick-off:13h30). This season along their way to securing age-group the three major age-group titles, Province have beaten the Bulls every time.…
The two schools named after the former Governor of the Cape, Sir George Grey mean in Bloemfontein today. The match will be broadcast live on Super Sport 1 at 13h00. (Repeat on SS8 at 21h30)…
Glenwood will be out to cause an upset when they take on Affies, the current number one ranked school in South Africa. Affies has won twelve games this season so far and Glenwood has ten wins to their name but significantly the Pretoria team will arrive in Durban undefeated while Glenwood has lost seven games this season. …
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outeniqua | 61 | 5 | St Josephs (UK) | Played 23/07/2013 | |
| Drostdy | 25 | 10 | Swartland | Played 23/07/2013 | |
| Tygerberg | 37 | 17 | Northcote | Played 24/07/2013 | |
| Marlow | 9 | 17 | Oakdale | On SuperSport 8 at 15h00. Bound to be a cracker | |
| Queens | 14 | 13 | Selborne | First leg ended Selborne 27-23 Queens on 04/05/2013 | |
| St Andrews | 48 | 13 | Dale | ||
| Kingswood | 7 | 12 | Graeme | Derby game. Unfortunately a lot of fights in this game. | |
| Oudtshoorn | 3 | 51 | Die Brandwag | ||
| Nico Malan | 21 | 14 | Langenhoven Gim | ||
| Despatch | 12 | 27 | Muir | ||
| Hudson Park | 25 | 8 | Stirling | ||
| Union | 17 | 28 | Grens | ||
| Grey College | 51 | 21 | Grey HS |  On SuperSport 1 at 12h45. Grey PE have never beaten Grey Bloem | |
| Framesby | 16 | 52 | Outeniqua | ||
| Glenwood | 23 | 53 | Affies | ||
| M. College | 16 | 30 | Pretoria BH | Gauteng wins the Grogper Cup 2013 7-6 | |
| Boland Landbou | 7 | 49 | Paarl Gim | Boland managed to stem the tide after Gim raced to a 49-0 lead | |
| Drostdy | 32 | 3 | Bishops | Â After a few lacklustre performances Drostdy seem to have come good | |
| Rondebosch | 20 | 39 | Paarl BH | Rondebosch looking like they were going to cause an upset at one stage | |
| Tygerberg | 5 | 38 | SACS | ||
| Wynberg | 8 | 16 | Paul Roos | Â http://www.stoopstats.co.za/articles/form-team-wynberg-face-paul-roos/ | |
| Marais Viljoen | 10 | 47 | Jeppe | ||
| Parktown | Helpmekaar | ||||
| Kempton Park | 46 | 12 | Centurion | Beeld Trofee – for a place in the quarterfinals. Cen 14-23 KP (11/05/13) | |
| Garsfontein | 79 | 21 | Florida | Beeld Trofee – for a place in the quarterfinals | |
| HTS Middelburg | 57 | 18 | Menlopark | Beeld Trofee – for a place in the quarterfinals |
The DRSU Colts rugby league kicks off at Toti rugby club this   Sunday. The first match kicks off at 9.30 am and the final match of the day get’s underway at 16:10. Teams will compete in the U13A and B, U15A and B, U16 and U18 leagues.
Colts rugby provides a platform for the serious and passionate player alike to extend their school rugby season by a further few months.  These players will also compete for coveted places in the DRSU teams who will take part in the IPT in Pretoria over the Michaelmas holiday break.  Trials will be held on a few short weeks at Varsity College.…
There’s a new No.1. Affies’ dominate performance against Maritzburg College has given them a slight edge on Paarl Gim by just seven hundredth’s of a point. The log looks very settled near the top. In the teens, Wynberg and Grey PE have made big leaps following good campaigns at Cape Schools week. Rondebosch have gone through a bleak period and might be a bit fortunate to only fall seven spots. Their early season form has definitely come to their rescue. Maritzburg College and Kempton Park are other schools that have suffered major drops.…
You just gotta love schoolboy rugby! There are so many things to enjoy about the game being played on the field and when you can add unpredictability of the outcome to the mix, it just makes it that much more entertaining. At the start of this season and any season for that matter, in my mind at least, this Grogper Cup, a made-up tournament between several KZN and Gauteng English-medium schools should have been a foregone conclusion.…
In order to set the record straight, the Blue Bulls replied to the comment below made on this website:…
Marlow recorded a convincing 22-3 win at home against St Andrews to confirm that they are the province’s number 2 rugby school behind Grey High this year.…
It’s still early days still but the indications are that the Bulls are a notch above all their opponents in this years under-19 national championship. A convincing 9-try, 61 points drubbing of the Leopards in game 1 of the season didn’t say too much on it’s own at the time but when the Leopards went down to the Cape and beat the unsettled defending champions Province albeit with entirely new personal off course, sudden the Bulls victory took on new meaning. …
The Golden Lions Rugby Union underlined their importance to the continued well-being of the South African rugby with two good road wins against the Sharks on Friday. In the under-19 game, a 67th minute try by EG Jansen Old Boy Kyle van Dalen sealed the deal as the Lions triumphed 21-13, denying the Sharks a bonus point in the process. In the under-21 game the visitors from Jozi had matters under control from the first half, building up a 17-0 lead at one stage and then holding out to win it 24-17 against a fairly competent Sharks team.…
Home team Paarl Boys High scrapped home 21-20 on Brug Street against Paul Roos thanks to a late try, scored with less than 3 minutes left on the clock. In so doing the Blue Army extended their winning streak against the Maroon Machine. The weather conditions were poor but the boys still managed to put on a great entertainment package with five tries thrown in. Also outstanding on the day was the singing by both sets of schoolboy supporters and the settling at Brug Street seemed to amplify their great school spirit.…
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJS Paarl BH | 21 | 20 | Paul Roos | Â u16A: PRG 10 HJS 9 | |
| SACS | 3 | 55 | Paarl Gim | In spite of being without the likes of Bothma, Vermeulen, Schickerling & Oosthuizen, Gim showed their depth with this result | |
| Bishops | 31 | 10 | Tygerberg | The Tiere were without their 2 best players Goddard & Esterhuyzen. Read the match report here: http://www.stoopstats.co.za/ | |
| Drostdy | 15 | 25 | Wynberg | ||
| Rondebosch | 20 | 30 | Boland Landbou | Â After a good start to 2013, the Rondebosch are now struggling to get results. | |
| Affies | 51 | 20 | M. College | ||
| Despatch | 3 | 27 | Die Brandwag | ||
| Grey HS | 39 | 8 | Daniel Pienaar | Grey continue to prove why they are the EC no.1 | |
| Kingswood | 27 | 37 | Framesby | ||
| Marlow | 22 | 3 | St Andrews | A fine result for Marlow. SAC appears to be slipping in the EC rankings | |
| Port Rex | 0 | 71 | Queens | ||
| Selborne | 13 | 13 | Hudson Park | A major surprise in this East London derby. | |
| Nico Malan | 65 | 6 | Bablake (UK) | ||
| Jeppe | 36 | 19 | Diamantveld | ||
| Parktown | 27 | 19 | Marais Viljoen | ||
| Pretoria BH | 3 | 13 | Grey College | ||
| Monnas | 43 | 15 | Florida | Beeld | |
| HTS Middelburg | 18 | 19 | Nelspruit | Beeld | |
| Kempton Park | 17 | 26 | EG Jansen | Beeld | |
| Transvalia | 34 | 14 | Hugenote | Beeld – Big Schools | |
Paarl Boys High have an astonishing school A-team record in Western Province inter-schools at the moment. They have lost one A-team game in sixteen matches this season. This puts them top of the pile in the province that we need not remind everyone, has won the under-18, under-16 and under-13 national provincial titles in 2013. …
I wanted to write this blog to add some counter balance to some of the comments that had been made about the Glenwood coach here and elsewhere over the years. This is by no means an attempt to change course on many of the issues that have impacted on KZN schools in recent times which I for one feel very strongly about but it is an effort to shed more light on the massive contribution that Sean Erasmus has made and continues to make as a rugby coach at various levels.…
Free State may have lost out to Western Province in their endeavours to retain the services of outstanding Grey College and SA Schools fullback EW Viljoen but they compensated for the lost in the best way possible by signing Glenwood and KZN Schools fullback Corné Vermaak. …
JD Schickerling, the 2.03m, 107kg Paarl Gim lock has been sidelined for a further six weeks and will therefore not take part in the up and coming under-18 international series.…
Later on in the year the Schoolboyrugby Blog will do it’s very best to find a successor to Handre Pollard as the School Rugby Player of the year but for now it’s worth trying to identify who SARU will name as the prestigious Craven Week Player of 2013, at their end of the domestic season prize giving event. …
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