Tuks Reeks 2015 revisited
The Tuks Skole Reeks for 2016 is about to kick off. Here’s a summary of 2015 results.…
Ernst van Rhyn the Craven Week Player of Year 2015 makes history
Ernst van Rhyn the captain of both the Craven Week winning Western Province under-18 team and his school Paarl Gymnasium in 2015, has become the first FORWARD to be named as the Craven Week Player of the Year. …
2016 schoolboy rugby season: schools tipped for the top
Affies may just be the team to beat in 2016. With there are handful of seriously talented rival teams to consider and lots of competitive matches lying ahead, it’s by no means a sure bet that the Pretoria Witbulle will come out on top, nevertheless there is just too much quality at their disposal to deny them the tag of early favourites to finish at number one.…
Superbru Super Rugby – pass code : ironsaki
The pool code for Schoolboyrugby.co.za is ironsaki. All are welcome to join.…
Union High Rugby Festival 2016 – finalised fixtures
Grey College and Framesby will take each other on in the main game of Day-1 at Union High in Graaff-Reinet. The match days are Saturday 19 March and Monday 21 March 2016.…
Port Natal Night Series 2016 – fixtures
After the fantastic high of the 2015 tournament which featured DHS and produced a number of memorable games including a nail-biting finish to the final between after the final hooter winners Glenwood and Westville, the Port Natal Night Series 2016 sponsored by Kenfield Tyres has been characterised by the withdrawal of all three KZN Tier-1 rugby teams’ 1st XV squads. …
Rugby Skillset App available
A user-friendly tool to help school teams generate pro stats using just an ANDROID smartphone or a tablet is now available. …
ETV Breakfast Show – 07h10 Tuesday 02 Feb 2016
It’s believed that ETV’s Breakfast Show tomorrow morning at 07h10 will be discussing the Parktown/KES matter as well as the roll of agents/scouts.…
Accredited agent vs talent scout
In the wake of the Parktown/KES matter where two talented rugby players who are both younger than 18 moved between the schools, with Parktown using the word “agent” in their own letter describing on how events unfolded, it called into question whether or not the players could be represented by a rugby agent given their respective ages.…
Opportunity for Hilton to add to their rugby coaching structure
Hilton are already in the fortunate position of being able to afford both Brad Macleod-Henderson and Greg Miller to oversee their rugby. Recently it was confirmed that Shane Gaffney, their existing Director of Sports and Director of Coaching Cricket had been announced as the St Dominic’s College Welkom Headmaster with effect from the 2nd term of 2016.…
Cambridge Winter Sport Festival 2016
Match days: Saturday 25 June and Monday 27 June 2016.…
Parktown disagreement with KES
Included: letter from Parktown detailing their views as well as a letter issued by KES to their own community prior to the Parktown letter
Parktown has withdrawn (suspended) sporting fixtures against KES in the interim. The two schools are busy talking about this so there are chances that the Parktown issues will be resolved. Two ex-Parktown boys were amongst a group of 20 odd boys (some from state schools, some from independent both boys and co-ed schools) who enrolled from grade 9 -11 at KES this year and are the cause of Parktown’s decision.…
Paul Roos Rugby Day 2016 is on!
Paul Roos Rugby Day will take place on Saturday 12 March 2016.…
2016 : a chance for Schools Sevens to step out of the shadows
2016 is an Olympic year. For the first time Sevens will be on the roster. This will significantly boost the profile of the sport around the world as well as in our own backyard. On top of that South Africa who have struggled to win medals of any kind at the Olympics, have a very good chance of standing on the medal-winners podium …
MasterCoach Conference 2016
MASTERCOACH 2016 :
After the unprecedented success of the Mastercoach Rugby conference in 2014 and 2015, the organisers are excited to introduce their popular and practical oriented rugby conference for 2016 . Their rugby specialists promise to be of a high quality once again and will share their knowledge and experience of the international stage. The conference is on from 26-27 February 2016.
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Athletics vs water polo in a rugby context
Paul Roos at the Drie-Hoek in the Boland
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Matric exams 2015 analysis of 15 high schools
Thank you to well-known blogger Grasshopper who done the time consuming research on the matric results of:
KZN: Glenwood, DHS, Northwood, Maritzburg College, Westville Boys’, Westville Girls
Gauteng: KES, Jeppe, Pretoria Boys High, Jeppe
Free State: Grey College
Eastern Cape: Grey High
Western Cape: Rondebosch, SACS, Paul Roos
and produced this detailed and very interesting table below:
Please note stats taken from EWN website data.
(Click on table to enlarge)
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Bulls u19 – 50 contracted players for 2016
When it comes to announcing the newest members of their rugby fraternity it’s unusual for the Bulls to be slow out of the starting blocks. This time around for whatever reasons, the Bulls have delayed their squad release, even though the last of the kids born in 1997 is over the SARU stipulated minimum contracting age of 18.…
Rugby schools’ matric results rankings 2015
Here’s a table listing the matric results 2015 achievements and ranking of various high schools that often perform well at rugby or are traditionally well supported teams.…
Matric results 2015
The national matric pass rate has dropped from 75.8% in 2014 to 70.7% in 2015.
The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate.…