Grey College names a strong team to face Potch Gim
Grey College has named a very strong line-up to take on Potchefstroom Gymnasium at the Fichardtpark Rugby Day in Bloemfontein on Saturday, 08 March. …
Krugersdorp High’s Best of the West Rugby Festival
This year Krugersdorp High School has chosen to host their annual “Best of the West” Rugby Festival during the first term end school holiday as opposed to their usual Easter Weekend slot. The tournament will also have an under-14 age group rugby festival on the go on a field alongside the main field. It promises to a great weekend of great rugby so hopefully locals turn out in large numbers to add to the atmosphere.…
Porterville Sportnaweek / Sports Weekend 2014
1200 school students will take part in rugby and netball at this year’s Porterville Sports Weekend, sponsored by OK Grocers. Amongst them are 10 1st XV’s including powerhouse HJS Paarl Boys High, with new coach Sean Erasmus making his debut at this not to be missed event.…
Wartburg Festival: College & Westville in action again
Maritzburg College and Westville will be in action at the same venue for the third weekend running when both schools participate in the WKS RUGBY HOCKEY NETBALL FESTIVAL at Wartburg, 33km outside Pietermaritzburg.
The two KZN powerhouse schools each played a match against different opponents at the KFC Voortrekker Night Series before they met on Friday, 28 February in possibly the most physical encounter of the local preseason to date.…
“The state of schools rugby is in the dwang – ethically, educationally…”
An article from the Saturday Star, written by Theo Garrun
A couple of weeks ago I wrote of the kidnapping of two under-14 rugby players by a coach at another school. I’ve not heard anything more about the matter, so I suspect it didn’t actually happen – I hope not, anyway.
A day or two later another story did the social media rounds – about two young rugby players – Xhosa speakers – who were lured to an up-country Afrikaans medium school, no doubt by bursaries and promises of big money. Apparently, they soon discovered that they couldn’t speak the language, didn’t fit in and were very unhappy.…
SBR Fixtures & Results – week ending 01/03/2014
| DAY | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | EVENT | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri | 28/02/14 | M/College Preseason XV | 12 | 5 | Westville Preseason XV | Voortrekker Night Series |
| Fri | 28/02/14 | Voortrekker (Pmb) | 3 | 29 | Kearsney Preseason XV | Voortrekker Night Series |
| Fri | 28/02/14 | Howick | Linpark | Voortrekker Night Series | ||
| Fri | 28/02/14 | Greytown | 0 | 34 | Westville 2nds | Voortrekker Night Series |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Pinetown | 0 | 67 | Port Natal | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | George Campbell | 27 | 0 | KZN Development | |
| Mon | 24/02/14 | Diamantveld | 21 | 14 | Fichardtpark | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Jim Fouche | 26 | 0 | Klerksdorp | Brandfort Rugby Day |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Duineveld | 11 | 20 | Diamantveld | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Hentie Cilliers | 43 | 0 | Zastron | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Sentraal (FS) | 20 | 12 | Noord-Kaap | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Louis Botha | 32 | 8 | Landboudal | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Goudveld | 0 | 111 | Grey College | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | HTS Middelburg | 9 | 11 | Transvalia | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Alberton | 26 | 29 | Jeugland | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Middelburg | 17 | 8 | Ermelo | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Marais Viljoen | 15 | 10 | Rustenburg | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Standerton | 3 | 7 | Ben Vorster | |
| Sat | 01/03/14 | Brandwag (Benoni) | 27 | 22 | Florida | |
| Fri | 28/02/14 | Stellenberg | 14 | 12 | Drostdy |
Voortrekker Night Series: Day 2 Maritzburg College & Westville teams
Maritzburg College takes on Westville at 19h30 on Friday, 28 February in the KFC Voortrekker Night Series. This is a 25-minute per half preseason game. Both coaches are still experimenting and missing a few key players due to summer sports commitments.…
Stellenberg is ready to get the ball rolling against Drostdy
The Stellenberg u19A team will be in action against HTS Drostdy on Friday 28 February at the Kraaifontein Rugby club schoolsday. Time: 19h45.
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Butch James invites the KZN school coaches to discuss u19 rugby
The correspondence from former Rugby World Cup winning Springbok flyhalf and Maritzburg College Old Boy, Butch James reads as follows: “please see attached invitation to join Jake White and Myself to a Cocktail Party to discuss U19 Rugby at the Sharks and other rugby matters going forward. Hope to see you there and to get your input.” …
Voortrekker Night Series 2014
The annual Voortrekker Night Series will be sponsored by KFC and will be played over three Friday evenings starting on 21 February 2014. Three top KZN rugby schools, Kearsney, Maritzburg College and Westville will participate alongside the hosts Voortrekker (Pietermaritzburg), Greytown, Howick, Linpark and Weston in the unstructured preseason friendlies tournament.…
Top u19 recruiter Gavin Melvill leaves the Sharks
Former Natal centre from the 1970’s Gavin Melvill makes up 17 years worth of a total of 227 years of coaching experience that will no longer be part of the Sharks set up as a result of personnel departures. Melvill has serviced in different roles at the rugby union but has always had a hands on approach with regards to the contracting of junior players. …
Blue Bulls to combine u19 school & club rugby
Blue Bulls schools/club league gets major boost
The Blue Bulls Rugby Union and their Schools Rugby Association, in co-operation with sports promoter Willem Strauss and coffee retail franchise Enrista, on Wednesday announced an innovative and exciting new rugby competition that will combine club and schools rugby that will boost player numbers for both entities.…
It’s Paul vs Roos at PRG school rugby trials
Paul Roos Gymnasium head coach Hein Kriek is bound to have one of those preferred headaches tomorrow when the process of narrowing down a big pool of talented candidates to just a starting 1st XV starts in earnest with a rugby trial match on Thursday, 27 February.…
3 changes to Wildeklawer matchday 2 schedule
The finalised Wildeklawer Super Skole fixture list for 2014 containing three changes was officially released by the organisers of SA schoolboy rugby’s premier festival today. The mouthwatering game between Grey College and Paarl Gymnasium just the way the late Basjan Reinhardt would have wanted it, will take centre stage on matchday 2. Paul Roos are also given the opportunity to avenge their 12-29 defeat at the hands of EG Jansen in 2013. …
Kearsney’s 2014 rugby season starts
Kearsney’s rugby season begins with a short warm-up game against the hosts at the KFC Voortrekker Night Series on Friday 28 February. Thereafter they depart for their annual Northern Natal tour where they have lined up fixtures against Vryheid on Monday 03 March and Pionier on Wednesday 05 March. That makes it three reasonably demanding early matches all within the space of five days.…
Uitenhage’s Die Brandwag names their 2014 rugby squad
Die Brandwag’s 2013 team contained some very good players that helped them achieve a set of good results. Included in that team was Malcolm Jaer who went on to gain SA Schools selection, joining the likes of Brandwag old boys Freddie Ferreira (1980), Sean Plaatjies (1996) and Riaan Arendse (2007) in the process. …
Increased responsibility for KES coach Carl Spilhaus
Carl Spilhaus, the highly rated King Edward VII School rugby head coach was recently appointed as the school’s new Head of Rugby. He is just a few months into the job and although he has a lot on his plate at this time of the year, all indications are that he is thoroughly enjoying the new challenge.…
Young Guns Varsity Cup squads 2014
In an effort to get to grips with who is who in this year’s Young Guns competition, here is a start. An incomplete table containing many of the player’s names of six of the teams (Pukke & Wits missing) and where know, the schools they attended. …
SA Schools Cricket & Rugby Analysis : 1994 – 2013 (20 seasons)
This is an analysis of the of SA School cricket and rugby selections 1994 – 2013, in other words the last 20 years. For the sake of creating a common base of measurement, schools have been assigned to their rugby regions as opposed to their cricket regions which differ in some cases. …
Port Natal Night Series final: Glenwood Invitational XV beats DHS 10-3
The Glenwood Invitational XV containing a nearly full strength Glenwood line-up had to dig deep to overcome a spirited 50-minute challenge from DHS before they run out 10-3 winners and claimed the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf Night Series title for 2014. (Click here for match photos -> Cyndi@rugby)…
Voortrekker Night Series: Maritzburg College water polo delay helps rugby prepping
A postponed water polo fixture isn’t usually cause for celebration, at least not a Maritzburg College but in this case, the delay has provided Ryan Strudwick with a unique opportunity to field a fairly strong pre-season line-up for the school’s first run out of the year at the KFC Voortrekker Night Series.…
Voortrekker Night Series: Westville’s first warm-up game
Westville plays the first of four preseason fixtures against host’s Voortrekker at the KFC Night Series tonight. Kick-off is at 19h30. They will follow this up with matches against Maritzburg College (Vories N/S on Friday 28 February), KZN Development and Clifton ( Wartburg Festival on 08 March).…
HTS Louis Botha benefitting from Craven Week quotas
The under-18 Craven Week quota system specifying the minimum number of previously disadvantaged players each team MUST select for their squad of 22 has paved the way for transformed Bloemfontein high school HTS Louis Botha to rise up and become one of the biggest contributors of Craven Week players in South Africa.…
SA u20 rugby training group 2014 by school & position
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) announces the names of the following players who have been identified to the SARU Under-20 Programme for 2014 in preparation of the IRB Junior World Championship which takes place in Auckland, New Zealand. …
GEMS might need 10 wins to retain the Grogper Cup
With the various Easter rugby festival fixtures finalised, the dust has settled and the virtually impossible task facing the GEMS (Gauteng English Medium Schools) has been made clear. If there aren’t any draws in the Grogper Cup 2014, the GEMS will need a massive ask of 10 victories against their fancied English-medium school opponents from the wonderful province of KwaZulu-Natal. …