Recruitment: traditional schools headmasters’ fail to come up with solution
One of the hot topics in school rugby at the moment is recruitment/poaching/buying/”gapsing” of good players from other high schools.…
Bleak future for quality pro rugby in SA
I switched on the telly this morning and caught the highlights of the UEFA Champions League (UCL) soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam of Holland and Paris St Germain (PSG) of France. And I know, I know, not many of you who come to read the pages here have any time for soccer but bear with me – I believe there are going to be some parallels to be drawn between the declining Dutch football league (Eredivisie) and the future of professional rugby structures in South Africa.…
2 new rugby coaches for Affies
Affies have upped their game by appointed two new 1st XV coaches ahead of the 2015 school rugby season. Jan-Hendrik Hattingh (history teacher) and Jaco Koch (gym manager/biokineticist) will take charge of the Witbulle backs and forwards respectively. Koch’s promotion means a new conditioning coach Janus Kruger (previously Boishaai) also comes into the mix.…
Menlo are Coke-Reeks champs again
Menlopark retained their Coke-Reeks title recently by beating Marais Viljoen 29-0 in the final.…
Paul Roos taking part in Sanix in 2015
Paul Roos Gymnasium has accepted the invitation to be South Africa’s representative at the international Sanix tournament in Japan next year.…
Boishaai to replace Grey PE at Wildeklawer 2015
The 2-match-day Wildeklawer Skouspel 2015 takes place at Diamantveld Hoërskool in Kimberley on Saturday, 25 April 2015 and Monday, 27 April 2015 (Freedom Day public holiday).…
Kearsney in the market for a new rugby coach
Existing Kearsney head coach Frank Lubbe enjoyed a fitting end to his tenure at Kearsney when his team won the Voortrekker Sevens tournament on Saturday. Ironically the team they beat in the final was Maritzburg College, where Lubbe will ply his trade next year. On Botha’s Hill, the process to find his replacement is underway. Including Lubbe, Kearsney has had just 10 head coaches during a total of 73 seasons as a KwaZulu-Natal tier-1 team.…
ABSA u19 Currie Cup – Week 10 teams & results
RESULTS
EP Kings U19 42 – 7 Leopards U19
Golden Lions U19 28 – 8 WP U19
Free State U19 22 – 18 Sharks U19…
KZN / Natal Schools Craven Week teams of the 1980’s
Once again I just want to say thank you to Johan Snyman who updates the AffiesRugby.co.za website. Without his time and effort to retrieve the info and forward it, presenting the database below would not have been possible.…
EG Jansen stayers to tour England & France
Dr EG Jansen of Boksburg will embark on an 11-day (27 Nov – 07 Dec) end of year rugby tour to England and France, which will include matches against at least three different teams. 34 stayers will make up the touring party and each player is guaranteed to play in two games. …
Affies’ return to the Beeldtrofee shortlived
Affies’ return to and limited participation in the Beeldtrofee Macro schools competition did not last long. It was just a half a season long return in fact for the school that holds the record number of wins in the tournaments long and illustrious history.…
Garsfontein teammates become opponents
When it was brought to my attention, this one sort of reminded me of the late Gerbrand Grobler who in the latter part of his sports career would charge into the crease to deliver a ball for the Northern Transvaal cricket team during the summer months and then cross the Jukskei and turn out at fullback for the Transvaal rugby team during winter.…
ABSA u19 Currie Cup – Week 9 teams & results
RESULTS
Saturday, September 06 2014
Blue Bulls U19 37 – 30 Golden Lions U19
Free State U19 54 – 15 Leopards U19
Friday, September 05 2014
EP Kings U19 7 – 15 Sharks U19 …
Afriforum prepares to legally challenge rugby quota system
An article in the Rapport newspaper (http://www.rapport.co.za/Nuus/Nuus/AfriForum-is-bereid-om-internasionaal-te-veg-20140906) mentions that a legal team of AfriForum will be acting on behalf of six under-16 players and their parents in a matter to oppose the racial quota system in South Africa. The complaint will be lodged with the IRB and will be taken up with the International Court of Arbitration in Sports (Lausanne, Switzerland), if the IRB is unwilling to prohibit the racial quota system in South African rugby. …
College adding rugby coaching depth by employing old boys
Maritzburg College is set to see the return of Francois Lubbe and Ryan Kyle, two old boys who have made names for themselves as high school rugby coaches at private schools in KwaZulu-Natal.…
KZN u18 Sevens team 2014
The KwaZulu-Natal Under-18 Sevens team to take place in the National tournament in October has been release:…
Annual KZN Sevens tournament – 06 Sep 2014
Glenwood’s Photonote Toshiba Sevens Rugby Tournament will take place on Saturday, 06 September 2014. 19 school will be in action:…
School coach suspended for breaching age-group regulations
From SARugby.net
September 04, 2014
A schools rugby coach who breached South African Rugby Union (SARU) rules governing under age rugby has been suspended and the points his school took for the match were overturned, following a SARU disciplinary hearing.The charge was the first brought to SARU under new regulations that were introduced to protect players under the age of 18 at the start of last season.
Kuswag School’s 1st rugby team is making history in 2015!
From Kuswag:
There is great excitement in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KZN. Kuswag school’s 1st rugby team is getting ready to take part in an international youth rugby tournament in Portugal. …
KZN / Natal Schools Craven Week teams of the 1990’s
First of all I just want to say a big big thank you to Johan Snyman who updates the AffiesRugby.co.za website. Without his time and effort to retrieve the info and forward it, the database below would not have been possible.
If you have the first names of the players listed by just their initials, please forward it to be***@******sa.net, so that the record can be completed. There is also a missing backline player’s name from 1997 as a result of a duplication. If you remember it, please post or forward it.…
A new look Westville rugby fixture list for 2015
Westville’s rugby fixture list for 2015 has a host of unexpected exciting surprises. Out of province schools Affies, Jeppe and Garsfontein (unconfirmed but close) have been lined up as brand new inter-schools opponents. Maritzburg College will become a home and away fixture for the first time. …
BHP Top 50 – 2014 season preliminary final results
Before finalising the 2014 formula driven rankings, BHP has asked if bloggers can check if all their schools’s games are in the “played” category below. Some early season friendlies and shortened games are not taken into account and neither are any games played overseas on tours. Once I have updated all the data of outstanding games he will bring out the final rankings but doubt if it will change the top 20 anyway. Email: Bo********@***il.com…
Glenwood recognised as KZN’s no.1 school rugby team 2014
Traditional Boys’ Schools Rugby Luncheon – 2014 (Report from Glenwood)
On Friday 29 August, the 10th annual Traditional Schools Rugby Luncheon was again successfully hosted by Rob Visick, Doug Tweedie and their team at the Salt Rock Hotel on the KZN North Coast.
The 2014 edition continues to highlight the growth in popularity of the event with 180 guests from 9 of the Province’s Traditional Boys’ Rugby Schools all enjoying the camaraderie shared amongst these traditional rivals – both the Province and Schools were represented by some of their most well-known Old Boys and Rugby Families. …
Maritzburg College u19 player leaves to join Sharks Academy
Marcel Coetzee, the standout Maritzburg College outside centre with over 50 1st XV caps left his high school after the conclusion of the school rugby season to take up a rugby contract that now has him based at the Sharks Academy in Durban.…