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BHP Top 50 – week ending 17 August 2013

19 August, 2013 beet 91

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.…

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Now its Outeniqua vs Grey College for 3rd in SA

19 August, 2013 beet 95

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.…

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KZN Schools Sevens trials today

19 August, 2013 beet 5

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. …

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Rumourmill: Affies back in Beeld in 2014

19 August, 2013 beet 73

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.…

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Future looks bright for Paul Roos

19 August, 2013 beet 5

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!…

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Results – week ending 17 August 2013

15 August, 2013 beet 112
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
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Quotas unlikely to end any time soon

15 August, 2013 beet 31

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.…

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The future of Dale College

14 August, 2013 beet 39

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.…

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KZN Sevens leg on at Glenwood

14 August, 2013 beet 2

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.…

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SA Schools named changed team to face France u18

12 August, 2013 beet 17

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.…

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Grey High unbeaten Eastern Cape champions 2013

12 August, 2013 beet 75

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. …

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‘Blowing ones own Horn’

12 August, 2013 Grasshopper 109

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. …

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KZN 2014 fixtures put on ice

12 August, 2013 beet 7

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. …

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Grey College vs Paul Roos – 25 years of rugby passion

11 August, 2013 beet 102

GCB PRGThis year Grey College  and Paul Roos Gymnasium will be celebrating 25 years of inter-schools. The two schools that share similar values and have common histories with regards to the establishments of the universities in their respective regions, will meet on the rugby field for the 30th time since 1967. In 1988 the fixture became annual event and has since grown to become one of the most highly anticipated and certainly one of the biggest rugby rivalries on the SA schoolboy rugby calendar. …

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WP u18 too good for Italy

11 August, 2013 beet 0

Craven Week winners Western Province Schools minus stalwarts Rikus Bothma, Jacques Vermeulen, Thomas du Toit, Grant Hermanus, Daniel du Plessis (Paul Roos) and Daniel du Plessis (HJS), and still without JD Schickerling were too strong for the touring Italian under-18 team, beating them 39-17 on Friday, 09 August.…

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BHP Top 50 – week ending 03 August 2013

8 August, 2013 beet 76

So very tight at the top. All the interest has been on the top 2 who are only separated by 5 100ths of a point. Further down, the Northvaal battle via the BeeldTrofee is winding down with Jansies and Nellies looking set to contest for 5th spot in SA this year. In form Klofies not done yet in either and they could still claim a top 10 finish in 2013.…

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Results – week ending 10 August 2013

8 August, 2013 beet 183
SCHOOL SCHOOL NOTES
Hugenote 22 14 Boland Landbou  {R.I.P. Ploegskaar}
Dan Pienaar 15 17 Die Brandwag
Queens 40 25 Cambridge
Oakdale 28 3 Framesby
Outeniqua 36 23 Noord-Kaap 13h05 Kwagga Dag – on TV
EG Jansen 36 0 Marlow 14h20 Kwagga Dag
Garsfontein 71 3 Tygerberg 15h30 Kwagga Dag
Nico Malan 17 17 Diamantveld Kwagga Dag
Grey College 68 7 Glenwood
Grey HS 45 0 Selborne  On TV – Friday 12h55
Queens 60 3 Hangklip
Dale 19 28 Hudson Park
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