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Contract dispute sidelines 2 schoolboy rugby players in the Free State

12 February, 2015 beet 24

Free State. According to a report in Netwerk24 (link) two promising schoolboy rugby players that joined Welkom Gymnasium from Hennie Cilliers in Virginia this year are not allowed to play rugby for any school except the Virginia Sports Academy (Hentie Cilliers) until a dispute that has arisen over their respective contracts with the Academy are laid to rest. The Welkom magistrate has enforced this until the charges for breach of contract is resolved by arbitration on 19 March. The boys are from George and Port Elizabeth and the report mentions that the academy had already spent a large sum of money on them.…

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Bellville could be a 2015 surprise package

8 February, 2015 beet 0

This probably won’t be news to the well-informed Western Province community but for the rest of the schoolboy rugby loving country it might be a good thing to keep an eye on Bellville High School’s progress this season. This year’s 1st XV senior group has achieved really good results coming up through the age-groups.…

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FAQ: how long is the school rugby sin bin time?

7 February, 2015 beet 7

Schoolboy rugby players don’t often get sent to the bin but when they do this sort of thing happens a lot: someone in the crowd turns to you or the guy sitting near you and asks how long the player has to stay in the bin. Well if you didn’t know the answer to that question, here we go. On their website, the the SA Referees have specified maximum playing times for various age-group levels and provided the sin bin times to coincide with these playing times. …

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UKZN ready to kickoff the Varsity Shield

2 February, 2015 beet 6

The Varsity Cup B-section known as the Varsity Shield gets underway with the televised game at 16h35 between the University of KwaZulu-Natal Impis and the University of the Western Cape (UWC).…

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Mastercoach 2015 Rugby Konferensie

30 January, 2015 beet 14

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RUGBY KONFERENSIE
26 & 27 Februarie 2015
(by HS Monument, Krugersdorp)

Mastercoach 2014 was ‘n uiters suksesvolle, opwindende en prakties-gerigte rugby konferensie. Die referente wat opgetree het was van hoogstaande gehalte en elkeen was afrigters wat hulle merk op die internasionale verhoog gemaak het.…

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Grey College fixtures for 2015

30 January, 2015 beet 22

The finalisation of the Grey College fixture list for 2015 is being delayed because the Bloemfontein City League is yet to confirm the local inter-schools matches. For now here is the provisional fixture list. It is as impressive as always. Grey pits their strength against many of the toughest schoolboy rugby opponents in the land.…

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SA schoolboy rugby : who will be tops in 2015

29 January, 2015 beet 64

The changing of 1st XV personnel every season in some cases amounts to a complete overhaul of first choice players and makes schoolboy rugby a lot more of a challenge when it comes to predicting who will finish up where at the end of the season. So with that in mind there is a quickly put together list of teams that are attracting pre-season attention:…

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Foreign players boost for Northwood rugby

28 January, 2015 beet 182

News out of Durban North is that Northwood has welcomed several new foreigner students to their school. It’s unconfirmed but believed that as many as five boys from the Netherlands and Zimbabwe stand a good chance of being incorporated into their 1st XV rugby squad for 2015, which if all goes well should improve the school’s rugby outlook for this season.…

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Big times ahead for Menlopark

27 January, 2015 beet 12

It may not be the perfect schedule but it’s very close to one. Menlopark rugby is on the rise and their 2015 fixture list speaks volumes about their focus and ambitions to be regarded as a top rugby school.…

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Dale College strengthened by arrival of 3 Potch High players

27 January, 2015 beet 91

An article with the header “New Kids on the Block” appearing in the recent edition of regional newspaper The Bulge added warmth to the welcoming function attended by three new Dalians Solomon Makhubela (Leopards Craven Week 2014), Oratile Mabusela (Leopards Craven Week 2014) and Thabiso Msiza (Leopards Craven Week 2014) in King William’s Town.…

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Up and coming Paul Roos star enrols at Paarl Gim

22 January, 2015 beet 24

At Paul Roos, 2015 marks the start of their 150th year of existence. However the first few days of the new school year saw some of their avid adult rugby supporters stopping to focus on a disappointment rather than the celebrations that are set to come at the school. The unhappiness was caused when it was discovered that one of their top sportsmen (rugby and athletics) from last year’s under-15 age-group would not be returning to the school as he had joined rivals Paarl Gymnasium.…

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Selborne announces their new headmaster

22 January, 2015 beet 25

Ahead of what’s expected to be a cracker of a rugby season for Selborne comes the news that Andrew Dewar will replace now retired principal Sam Gunn who has provided the East London school with 21 years of unbelievable service. Interestingly Andrew Dewar is the deputy headmaster at Queen’s College just like Mr Gunn was before he joined Selborne back in 1993.…

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Daniel Pienaar’s SA Schools prop off to New Zealand

20 January, 2015 beet 5

Prop Lupumlo Mguca who was one of only eight under-17 players to have represented the SA Schools team in under-18 internationals last year, is jetting off to New Zealand to attend Burnside, a co-ed high school in Christchurch, home to the Crusaders Super Rugby team.…

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Eldoraigne leaves Bulls Beeld Macro Schools A-section

17 January, 2015 beet 12

Eldoraigne from Centurion near Pretoria have decided to drop down to the Blue Bulls Region Macro Schools B-section for the Beeld this year. With Centurion High also in the B-section and Affies no longer part of the Beeld, the Blue Bulls A-section is looking very small. Chances are the Eldoraigne move will encourage the remaining A-section Marco schools to press ahead with the formation of a proper Noordvaal premier league. Where this will leave the Beeldtrofee with its rich tradition, remains to be determined.

The Blue Bulls Macro Schools sections now look like this:…

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Surely no stopping Nelspruit’s finest now?

2 January, 2015 beet 6

I have to say that in my mind Nelspuit Old Boy Duane Vermeulen should have walked away with SA rugby’s big award for being the country’s best rugby player in 2013 already. To me it’s debatable whether or not Vermeulen has had a better season this year compared to last year. Nevertheless I have to applaud the IRB Rugby Player of the Year 2014 nominee for being consistently good these past two seasons. Vermeulen is up for the SARU Player of the Year again this year…