An all Valke Beeld Trofee final on the way
Defending champions Kempton Park and EG Jansen will contest this year’s Macro Schools Beeld Trofee final on Saturday and bring down the curtain on one of the most memorable Noordvaal seasons.…
Kwaggas book a date with Gim
Two tries by centre Hennie Barnard in difficult weather conditions helped Outeniqua to a 18-6 win against Marlow and a place in the Burger Trophy final. Their likely opponents are Paarl Gymnasium, who are overwhelming favorites to get past Drostdy of Boland in the other semi.…
Selwyn Davids of Nico Malan breaks the 400 points barrier
Nico Malan’s centre and captain for a part of the season Selwyn Davids currently stands on 408 points for the season. That is quite something. …
Paul Roos’ outstanding inter-schools results against Grey Bloem
Many in the Paul Roos family are still hurting after Saturday’s all-important 1st team rugby match against Grey College. Paul Roos prides itself on being a top rugby school and this season has been particularly difficult for them. However their overall sports results against Grey College is still something for the home faithful to smile about. Even in rugby, PRG showed their depth and came out on top on aggregate. Look at these super results……
BHP Top 50 – week ending 17 August 2013
The battle for third spot is hotting up. Grey College has closed the gap to Outeniqua from 0.19 average points per game before the weekend to just 0.07. This leaves the Kwaggas with virtually no room for error during their remaining games which will presumably be Marlow followed by Paarl Gim. Even an Outeniqua win against Marlow might see their lead over Grey Bloem reduced even further, meaning that the school from George might have to beat Gimmies just to hold onto third spot for 2013. Interesting weeks ahead. Elsewhere it’s EG Jansen and Nelspruit who will battle it out for fifth place via the Beeld Trofee semi-final and with it a chance to meet surprise package Kempton Park in this year’s cup final.…
Now its Outeniqua vs Grey College for 3rd in SA
Grey College’s convincing 40-8 victory over Paul Roos over the weekend, adds to two impressive victories over Grey High and Glenwood in preceding weeks and has sparked a fresh new debate that they perhaps deserve the national 3rd spot ahead of the Kwaggas who actually beat them 22-20 at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival back on 01 April 2013.…
KZN Schools Sevens trials today
60 players were invited to attend the KZN trials today. The list was sent out before Saturday’s KZN Sevens tournament at Glenwood, which the hosts won. As a result they will be KZN’s representatives at the Champion of Champions tounament for all the winners of the various regional tounaments that are being staged around the country. …
Rumourmill: Affies back in Beeld in 2014
Written by a reliable anonymous source.
Affies decided to participate in the Beeld trophy again – from 2014 onward. However, there is a snag. They will only participate in the Pretoria division.…
Sharks Academy coach picking KZN Sevens
Roelof Kotze, from the Sharks Academy is one of the two new selectors responsible for choosing this year’s provincial Sevens team.…
Kick to the head for KZN Craven Week selectors
Following a dismal Craven Week there was salt to add to the wounds of the KZN Craven Week selectors when the Sharks Academy saw it fit to award Westville centre Bradley Ellse a big bursary.…
Future looks bright for Paul Roos
Paul Roos supporters would have been feeling down in the dumps since Saturday’s 8-40 drubbing by traditional season ending rivals Grey College on Markotter. The defeat brought to an end one Paul Roos’ worst year’s ever. THEY DID NOT EVEN WIN A GAME ON MARKOTTER THIS YEAR! UNBELIEVEABLE!…
Rugby Championship 2013 begins
The 2013 Rugby Championship will kick off on Saturday.The four top rugby unions of the Southern Hemisphere will be in action.…
Results – week ending 17 August 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Jansen | Nelspruit | Beeld Trofee macro schools semi | |||
| Kempton Park | 22 | 21 | Waterkloof | Beeld Trofee macro schools semi | |
| Paul Roos | 8 | 40 | Grey College | 25th year celebration. On TV | |
| Dale | 10 | 23 | Queens | ||
| Humansdorp | Die Brandwag | ||||
| Nico Malan | 25 | 39 | Framesby | ||
| Drostdy | 19 | 26 | Paarl BH | ||
| Oakdale | 29 | 10 | Boland Landbou | ||
| Outeniqua | 45 | 5 | Daniel Pienaar | ||
| Stellenberg | 3 | 34 | Paarl Gim | ||
| Bishops | 29 | 34 | Wynberg | ||
| SACS | 17 | 18 | Rondebosch | ||
| Tygerberg | 22 | 10 | Brackenfell | ||
| Louis Botha | 30 | 18 | Jim Fouche | Shimla-Liga knock-out | |
| Nico Malan | Langenhoven Gim/Punt | Burger next week – | |||
| Outeniqua | Marlow | Burger Trophy next week |
SA Schools u18 Internationals 2013 : SARU not doing enough for SA Schools
SARU are falling short of making the SA Schools experience all that it deserves to be. On Tuesday night the SA Schools team beat their French under-18 counterparts 17-13 it what felt like a bit of a covert operation.…
Quotas unlikely to end any time soon
Those of you who thought or hoped we might be nearing a time when rugby quotas in SA get scrapped and transformation starts to take care of itself, guess again. For the 2014 Vodacom Cup season SARU has just upped it’s transformation drive by instituting quotas along the lines of those used to determine school age-group provincial teams.…
SuperBru – Rugby Championship & Currie Cup
I’ve added a pool for the Rugby Championship which starts on 17/08/2013:
pool name: Schoolboy Rugby Blog
pool code: jivehuts
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Beeld Trofee 2013: quarter-finals and semi-finals
The Beeld Trofee is well into the knockout stages now. Starting this weekend 64 school teams will take part in 32 semi-final matches.…
The future of Dale College
An article by Playa ahead of this weekends big Dale vs Queens derby – one of the oldest and best in South Africa.
Unbeknown to most, Dale College admitted its first black learner way back in 1901. It would be another 90 years before the next group of what were then known as ‘Guinea Pigs’ would be admitted as Dalians.
Dale played their first all-school game in 1891 against their biggest foe to date, Queens College. Out of the school’s 4 main rivals (others being Selborne College, St Andrews College and Grey High School), and until recently Queens have been the only rival that has won more games than Dale on head to head (Grey PE went ahead of Dale in 2005). Dale were last ahead of Queens in 1975.…
KZN Sevens leg on at Glenwood
The annual KZN leg of the schools Sevens tournament takes place at Glenwood on Saturday, 17 August. It’s an all day affair starting at 8am and featuring 17 KZN teams along with 3 from Gauteng.…
SA Schools named changed team to face France u18
A number of changes have been made to the SA Schools starting line-up for the second round of the under-18 international series. France got thumped properly by Wales and one suspects that French under-18’s will have to reinvent themselves just as their under-20 national team did against the Baby Boks at the Junior World Champs earlier this year, if they are to stand any change during this game. The curtain-raiser is Wales versus England which should be a cracker. The SWD Craven Week team minus a number of their stars who are on duty for SA Schools, will have a shot against the wounded Italian under-18 team in the earlier game. It should be good.…
Grey High unbeaten Eastern Cape champions 2013
The two Eastern Cape big cities rivals Grey High of PE and Selborne of East London went head to head on Friday, 09 August it what is always a highlight game on the school rugby calendar. The match was played in difficult weather conditions at Grey’s home ground in Port Elizabeth this year and by halftime the result still hung in the balance. …
‘Blowing ones own Horn’
By Grasshopper
Having worked in business for 15 years I have realised that the best kind of PR is that done by others not associated with your brand and advocate customers. In relation to schools this would be parents, kids and Old Boys of other schools and the schools own fraternity.
With the advent of Social Media schools have started to do quite a bit of their own PR via Twitter and Facebook, some even creating business Linkedin profiles. With the huge amount of professionalism in school sport and the large amounts of revenue being handled by schools, they have had to treat them as businesses. However, each school has decided either to embrace technology and social PR or to avoid it. …
KZN 2014 fixtures put on ice
There is a lot of enjoyment derived from watching KZN schoolboy rugby. It’s good rugby and there is a lot of passion and commitment on display. But lets face it, there’s also a ton of sidelines drama here in the province as well. So I couldn’t help but laugh when I found out that even when all rivals are at off-season peace with each other and things feel like they have settled down, along comes the Minister of Education to get in on the act and properly ….. ! There will be a lot of holidays during the 2014 KZN school rugby season. …