This year’s annual Golden Lions awards ceremony turned out to be a fitting tribute to the big role smaller schools still play in developing talent for senior rugby. Some of those rewarded for achievement in the different team categories (u19, u21 and senior) schooled at the likes of Alberton, Bredasdorp, Hartswater, Marais Viljoen, Pretoria North, Standerton and Transvalia.…
I watched a CNN interview with author Malcolm Gladwell a short while back. In it he discusses his latest book “David and Golliath”. This is the same Gladwell that wrote the book Outliers in which he highlights the school age sportsman advantages of being born earlier in the calendar year.…
An interesting article coming from the PlanetRugby.com website
…Civil rights organisation AfriForum has warned the South African Rugby Union in a letter that its decision to implement racial quotas in the Vodacom Cup series next year
Provisional 2014 rugby fixtures for the Border region powerhouse schools…
Brendan Venter sluit aan en Hein Kriek sal steeds die eerstespan hoofafrigter wees.
Brief vanaf Frans van Niekerk, die Paul Roos hoof van rugby:…
The EP Kings under-19 team did incredibly well to earn themselves promotion this year after hitting form towards the end of the Currie Cup B-division season. They came from third on the log to win the title and then beat Border in the promotion-relegation play-off. This means that their under-19 team will be playing against all the big unions in the under-19 A-division championship in 2014.…
Well the idea might not be original but it’s always been a great one. Get the top schools from the Noordvaal to play the best that the Western Cape has to offer on an annual basis. These schools so seldom get the chance to meet on the rugby field, simple because of the logistics.
Putting the theory into practice has not been quite so easy. …
BoishaaiPa has been compiling a ranking system since 2009. Here is the combined effect of those 5 schoolboy rugby seasons.…
Hein Kriek finds himself in a difficult position at the moment and there is a possibility that he could be relieved of his position as 1st XV head coach at Paul Roos.
Up until now Kriek has steadily being building a reputation as a top class schoolboy rugby coach. …
The departure of coach Sean Erasmus from Glenwood to Paarl Boys High will leave the KwaZulu-Natal under-18 Craven Week team with a vacancy at forwards coach.
The clear cut criteria for selection of a new assistant coach has been provided by the KZNRU High Schools’ Association:…
Email sent in:
The bloggers on schoolboyrugby.co.za are making far too much about who is on and who is not on the list of 24 schools.
What no one has noticed is that these 24 for schools are all part of the informal organisation of state-aided monastic boys’ high schools that has been in existence for about 17 years now.…
Grey College will head into 2014 with the relatively young coach Wessel du Plessis official in control of 1st XV coaching matters.…
The Burger newspaper has revealed the names of the 24 government schools that have agreed to a “ons sal nie spelers met geld lok nie” (we won’t use money to attract players) charter that is in the process of being established.…
The talking points ahead of this game in France have been:
There was shock all around on Thursday, 21 November when Rory Duncan the head coach of Grey High School in Port Elizabeth unexpectedly handed in his resignation.…
Glenwood coach Sean Erasmus has accepted an offer to take over as the Paarl Boys High School Director of Rugby and 1st XV Head Coach.…
Glenwood versus KES in 2014?
It wasn’t scripted but the Gauteng English-medium schools somehow managed to defeat the KZN schools 7 games to 6 and win the inaugural Grogper Cup in 2013.(http://blog.schoolboyrugby.co.za/?p=4986)…
“How money moves rugby schoolboys” was the title of an interesting Prega Govender article in the national paper Sunday Times. The article grouped wealthy schools and rugby unions together as it touched on the sensitive topic of poaching “black” players using financial incentives.
The paper established a tally at 37 pupils poached in recent years from the Eastern Cape and Boland. …
The Boks tackle Scotland at Murrayfield in Glasgow in game two of their three-match tour. Kick-off is at 17h00.…
The Golden Lions have their 40 schoolboy signings for 2014 in the bag. 2013 Beeld Trofee winners EG Jansen from Boksburg have been a team blessed with talent in all departments so it comes with little surprise that they are best represented school in the Lions under-19 group for 2014 with nine players. Amongst the names keep a close eye on Jansies No.8 Marco Holmes. At 1.85m and 95kg Holmes is a player similar in size and ability to Carel Greeff…
Email from SARU to certified Boksmart coaches and referees :
Dear BokSmart Certified Coach or Referee
Thank you for your contributions to Playing Smarter, Safer, Rugby.
As part of the BokSmart initiative, we have developed a new BokSmart focused Research and Communications portal called BokSurveys.com. Via this portal, we will be able to communicate important Rugby Safety related information to you directly, and will also be able to use this as a platform to perform certain Research Surveys aimed at further improving both the safety of the game and player performance. …
Believe it or not by the time this End of Year Tour is over, current Springbok Heyneke Meyer will be the fourth most experienced Bok coach of all time, overtaking both Rudolf Straeuli and the legendary Doc Danie Craven to claim that spot. The Boks’ 24-15 win over Wales on the weekend, also pushes Meyer up into second place since test rugby readmission. This second place is in terms of both win percentage and a specially devised rating formula which takes the quality of the test opponents into consideration.…
The Springboks will have their work cut out for them if they want to beat Northern Hemisphere champions Wales in Cardiff on Saturday night 09 November 2013 (Kickoff at 19h30). The result of this game will go a long way to determining if Bok head coach Heyneke Meyer’s second year in charge is a success or not.…
I asked Old Grey blogger “BOG” to help out with arguably the most difficult to select Craven Week team of the last ten years of them all – the Free State team. With so much quality being churned out by Grey College annually, to compare and then choose one player over another per position is subjective. Here is BOG’s personal choice with a few footnotes on the method he adopted:…
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