Age-group rugby scrumming laws to be discussed
A bit long-winded but here is an excerpt from one of the resolutions for discussion at the 3 December SARU meeting. …
IRB Rugby Trials & Law Amendments 2012 – what’s the verdict
Well anyone who has followed the end of year Northern Hemisphere tour test matches has by now had a chance to see most of the new IRB stuff coming into play at some stage. During the Currie Cup in South Africa we had a taste of the extra TMO involvement and concussion bin. The big one on tour was always going to be the new scrum engage requirement. Let’s face it scrums this November have generally not been that pretty a sight…
Sergeal Petersen in the Kings Superugby squad
Sergeal Petersen, the 18-year-old Grey High and SA Schools wing has been named in the Southern Kings Superugby extended squad.…
The best 5 SA school coaches includes 3 rugby mentors
In the December issue of SA Sports Illustrated magazine coaches Sakkie van der Walt of Affies, Grant Griffy Griffiths of Dale and Barend Steyn of Kearsney are named along with a soccer and a cricket coach as the Five Best School Coaches in South Africa…
Beeldtrofee 2013: Is EG Jansen leaving the Macro Schools competition?
The Beeldtrofee is divided into four school divisions competitions that play matches at under-14, under-15, under-16 and first XV levels. The four divisions are Small Schools, Medium Schools, Big Schools and Macro Schools. The Macro Schools competition sees many of the well-known for rugby Afrikaans high schools situated north of the Vaal River battle it out in a knockout style format with the winners of each age-group claiming a Beeld trophy.…
Westville Rugby 2013
Griffon has put together this potential squad for the 2013 season:…
DHS Rugby 2013
Horsefly No.1 has put together a potential squad for the 2013 season.…
SuperBru EOYT – weekend 3
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Appeal to all Craven Week players 1964-2012
The 50th Craven Week will take place in Polokwane starting 13 July 2013. Hannes from School of Rugby is looking for details of any player who has played in the High School CW over the past 50 years.
Please contact this email address: ha****@**************co.za…
Glenwood Rugby 2013
Glenwood old boy Grasshopper has listed a potential 1st XV squad for 2013.…
5 schoolboys named in Bulls SupeRugby training group
If you live in Pretoria you’d better look for your name on this list below. It seems like the Bulls have named everyone that resides in the greater Tshwane district in their wider training group for SupeRugby 2013.…
Maritzburg College 150th Festival fixtures
Maritzburg College is the oldest high school in KwaZulu-Natal and one of the oldest schools in South Africa. In 2013 the school turns 150 years old. An Easter rugby festival featuring well recognised rugby schools has been arranged as part of the 150th celebrations. …
Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) 2013 fixtures
Kearsney’s sixth annual Easter rugby festival (KERF) will take place from Thursday 28 March to Monday 01 April 2013 on Botha’s Hill. The organisers have once again managed to assemble a top quality field including Grey College (Bloemfontein), Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos (Stellenbosch) who are regarded as three of the all-time best rugby schools in South Africa. In 2013 Boland Landbou (near Paarl), Framesby (Port Elizabeth) and Outeniqua (George) will make their debuts.…
Baby Bok u20 squad for 2nd training camp
Baby Boks head coach Dawie Theron has named a trimmed down squad of 38 players to attend his second SA under-20 trials and training camp in Stellenbosch from 2-9 December.…
School athletes suspended for taking drugs
According to a Sunday Times news report, King Edward VII School has banned three of its athletes from all sports activities after they confessed to using performance enhancing drugs. …
How many schoolboys will go on to become Springboks?
Okay this is my new favourite example and is handy for anyone who wants to keep things simple. A bit of what I call FYUI – for your useless information.
We have about 100 or so top rugby schools in South Africa. Working on the assumption that two-thirds of the First XV are matrics and one-third grade-11 or lower, that gives 1000 players graduating high school every year. How many of those make it to play for the Boks one day?…
Springbok test record: 1992 – 2012
This exercise below covers the Springbok rugby period from world rugby readmission in 1992 until present day. It started out as an attempt to work out the number of schoolboys in any given year that would go on be capped at Springbok level, based on historical data.…
C’mon Ref!
Supporting one’s rugby team is a pastime filled emotion when done right. These outbursts are sometimes triggered by decisions made by the man in the middle. …
Queens College coach resigns
John Duncan, the head coach of the Queens College 1st XV from the time he arrived at the school in 2010, has resigned.…
SuperBru EOYT – weekend 2
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Bye-bye dual sportsman: Jean-Luc du Plessis
Boland has named it’s Coca-Cola Khaya Majola under-19 Cricket Week team. Missing is the name of Boishaai all-rounder Jean-Luc du Plessis, a fast left arm bowler and top order batsman. …
School water polo : FINA u18 youth championships
Despite being a very popular South African school sport particularly amongst rugby players, water polo still lives in the shadows of more traditional national sports…
Over-aged KZN school player resurfaces in provincial sevens
On 03 November 2012 the Sharks team defeated Eastern Province Kings 29-14 in the SARU national sevens final for and I stress here for mens teams. A member of the impressive EP team was none other than one Mbembe Payi. Payi was a student at DHS earlier this year…