Port Natal Night Series 2014: Matchday 2 reports
The annual Port Natal Night Series sponsored by the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf is in full swing. Three entertaining rugby matches were contested on Tuesday night, matchday 2 of the tournament.…
Varsity Cup: Sharks AcadeNMMUy beats the Maties
| Home | Away | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NMMU | 45 | 29 | Maties |
| UCT Ikeys | 24 | 47 | NWU-Pukke |
| UP-Tuks | 18 | 18 | UJ |
| UFS Shimlas | 31 | 15 | Wits |
Wow the UKZN has never been part the Varsity Cup proper but the NMMU team that beat Maties 45-29 yesterday was about as close to a KZN / Sharks region representative team as supporters from the region could hope to get.…
New scoreboard for Maritzburg College’s famous Goldstones ground
A brand new electronic cricket/rugby scoreboard on Goldstones is one of many sports related improvements that Maritzburg College has made in recent months. The scoreboard and the construction to support it was funded from donations from four of Maritzburg College Old Boy branches, namely Harding, Zululand, Midlands and Tugela, plus a contribution from the MCOB Association itself, totalling R100,000.…
Noord-Suid Skolerugby Toernooi 2014
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue.01Apr | Menlopark | 98 | 00 | Harrismith |
| Tue.01Apr | Waterkloof | 10 | 24 | Paarl Gim |
| Fri.04Apr | Waterkloof | 94 | 00 | Harrismith |
| Fri.04Apr | Menlopark | 22 | 18 | Paarl Gim |
As many of you who follow the Blog already know, former Springbok Pieter Rossouw with the sponsorship backing of Barloworld has been trying to get a new Noord-Suid tournament organised.
In an idea world if this tournament consisted of just the top six schools it would have seen the best that Pretoria has to offer namely Affies, Waterkloof and right here right now Garsfontein come up against the top feeder schools of the WPRU, which would definitely be Paarl Gim, Paarl Boys High and Paul Roos.…
Port Natal Night Series: Port Natal beats Pinetown 22-0
Port Natal got their Night Series campaign off to a good start with a convincing win 22-0 win against Pinetown. However as a result of the final whistle being blown early, they missed out on the opportunity to earn a 4-try bonus point which could prove costly later in the series.…
Port Natal Night Series: DHS beats George Campbell 24-7
It was predicted that this DHS versus George Campbell game would be the match of the opening evening of the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryk Night Series at Port Natal Hoerskool because it pitted two KZN top schools against each other and going by their results against shared opponents over the last few years everything pointed to them being fairly closely matched.…
Port Natal Night Series: Glenwood Inv A beats Durban Dev 46-0
Port Natal’s annual night series sponsored by tyre experts the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf got off to a good start on Friday, 31 January. As usual a good crowd gathered and were treated to some much better than expected rugby for this time of the year. The A-team competition saw the Glenwood Invitation A team beating Durban Development 46-0.…
Former Westville head coach now a Glenwood man
UPDATED: Glenwood has issued a release stating that Mike Vowles will be their new 1st XV assistant coach. There is no mention of HP director, so apologies for stating this as it now appears to be incorrect. The email mentions that Mike is also qualified as a History, Life Orientation and Technology teacher but does not state whether he has been employed as a teacher.…
Grey College vs Paarl Gymnasium 2014 rugby match hangs in the balance
A final decision regarding Grey Bloem playing Paarl Gim at Wildeklawer Skouspel 2014 will be made any day now.
This is a game that every Grey and Gimmies student, parent and old boy wants to see happen but as always these kind of outcomes are not majority vote decisions and so it will be up to a few school officials in positions of authority to have final say on the matter.…
Kingswood first out of the blocks in the Eastern Cape
It would have been acceptable for Kingswood, a small private co-ed from Grahamstown to be amongst the last of the Eastern Cape schools to get their 1st XV rugby for 2014 up and running. Although they don’t the student numbers of most rival schools, Kingswood remains competitive in sports across the board during the year thanks to the commitment of boys, …
Porties are ready for the Night Series
If Christmas is the season to be jolly, rugby preseason is time for supporters to be optimistic. The actual season doesn’t always work out the way people planned though. That said Port Natal fans genuinely have cause to feel confident going into the 2014 season. Firstly their 1st XV has far more experience in terms of first team caps that the one that did duty last season. Also broadening the smiles on the faces of the support base was the successful set of trial chukkas held at the school 0n 17 January, merely one week into the new school year. …
Chances of 2014 KZN Top Schools Rugby Fest at Kings Park look bleak
In a nutshell organisers are finding it difficult to find a suitable date to fit in with the majority of schools. They haven’t given up though and if they can get most or some of the top schools to agree on a date, the event will go ahead.
Last year’s Top Schools Rugby Festival was the first of it’s kind for KZN and deemed to be a huge success by all who attended. 10 KZN schools participated in friendly preseason 20-min per half games. Hilton and Michaelhouse were the only absentees.…
Monnas rugby fixtures 2014
The saying goes “you can’t keep a good man down” and the same can be said of a good rugby school. Over the past couple of seasons Monument from Krugersdorp has not achieved bad results but overall they have not been what one has come to expect from a school that sets its rugby bar very high. 2014 could be the season that sees them return to a ranking position amongst the very top rugby schools in South Africa.
The detailed Monnas Witbulle fixture list also provides important dates of both Golden Lions regional schools and national events coming up. It’s worth perusing.…
Bizsport Glenwood Festival 2014
Finalised Fixtures!
For the second year running, the Bizsport Festival will take place at Glenwood in Durban. 81 games are scheduled to be played over 6 days, beginning on 31 March 2014. The age groups participating range from under-14 all the way up to open (under-19).…
Clifton College swelling in numbers
The Clifton College intake for Grade 8 this year is in the region of 100 boys, making it by far their biggest class since the high school came into being. Doing the maths suggests that if they continue to enroll this many students every year, they will be up to 500 boys in the high school by 2018.…
WP under-16 Elite Squad for 2014
The WP under-16 Elite Squad was named during September 2013. A new list was put out this week. It contains just two changes – C Serdyn (HJS) and R Harris (Scottsdene) have been added.…
WP under-18 Elite Group for 2014
Updated: The names of the players chosen for the Western Province under-18 Elite group, which will practice regularly throughout the close season, were originally announced on Wednesday 11 September 2013. Recently a revised list was put out with Rondebosch prop Ashwyn Adam and Gimmies’ flyhalf Walter Smit being added, while another Rondebosch player Zain Davids is moved from prop to his more accustomed position on the flank.…
Many coaching changes made 2013 a hectic year in KZN
What an eventful year 2013 turned out to be in terms of reporting news mainly about personnel changes in rugby-related posts at KwaZulu-Natal’s leading rugby high schools. So much happened last year. It seems almost impossible for 2014 to be as busy a year in this regard.…
2014 Western Province u19’s could be as good as the 2010 team
The Western Province Rugby Institute (WPRI) recently held an opening function to welcome this year’s batch of aspiring professionals to their world class facility in Stellenbosch. Judging by the talent they managed to secure, there is every chance that a WP under-19 team coming out of this group could contain as much skill and potential as the successful WP under-19 team of 2010.…
2014 school rugby fixtures of Pretoria’s big guns
This is not the completed product but a useful first look at what the top Pretoria rugby schools Affies, Centurion, Eldoraigne, Garsfontein, Menlopark, Pretoria Boys High, St Alban’s and Waterkloof will have on their plates this season. …
Noord-Kaap at the centre of the latest Eastern Cape “poaching” drama
Two Muir College students returned to their school in Uitenhage, Eastern Province last week after a short stay at Noord-Kaap in Kimberley did not live up to their expectations.…
Going rate of a school rugby player poaching package
The parent of a prominent up and coming Western Province age-group elite squad rugby player let the cat out of the bag with regards to the current type of offer that gets put on the table for a high school slash rugby union alliance inspired under-16 or older relocation to another province. In this particular case the offer was refused.…
Shawn van Rensburg named as Glenwood Director of Rugby
Glenwood has added the last piece to the puzzle in their efforts to replace former Head Coach and Director of Rugby Sean Erasmus (now at Paarl Boys High). Last year experienced assistant coach Rudi Dames was promoted to head coach and late last week the KZN school issued a press release confirming that former pro rugby player Shawn van Rensburg had taken over the reigns as Director of Rugby.…