He didn’t win the Currie Cup all on his own but hats off to debut season Sharks coach Brad MacLeod-Henderson for his worthy contribution to the 2013 success story. In the process he probably achieved a first in the professional age by making the switch from a schoolboy rugby coach at Hilton College in the Natal Midlands to professional rugby cup winning head coach in less than four months.…
After just a few months in the position, Dru Nass is now officially the former Head of Rugby of Durban High School, having returned to the Eastern Cape (Queens Junior) for personal reasons.…
On Tuesday, 22 October Dale College’s Craven Week centre Somila Jho completed his transfer from the Dale College, the Border powerhouse school in King William’s Town to Kingswood College in Grahamstown. The move was made possible by the Eastern Province Kings.…
Although this is Currie Cup final week and just about all the media attention during the build-up to Saturday’s big match is expected to be focused on the finalists Western Province and the Sharks, there is a little something that the Bulls can still get out of the season. Their under-19 team has been favourites to claim the title since day one of the season and their reinforced under-21’s, boosted by the return of several senior Currie Cup players including a Springbok to the age-group ranks, is looking equally hot ahead of the junior finals, which will also take place on Saturday at Newlands.…
On Saturday, 19 October the Eastern Province Kings under-19’s gained promotion to the Absa under-19 Currie Cup A-division for 2014, achieved via a 27-20 victory over Border. However they then had to watch their EP under-21 team go down 23-21 to Border in the other junior rugby promotion-relegation match.…
The Currie Cup final marks the conclusion of the domestic rugby season and is followed by the annual SARU awards shortly before the Springboks depart for Europe on their end of year tour (EOYT). Sometime towards the end of November the IRB will announce the nominees for international player of the year amongst other awards.…
Sebastiaan “Basjan” Reinhardt, the former Paarl Gymnasium headmaster who came up with the idea for the Wildeklawer Superskole, has passed away this morning (heart attack). Sincerest condolences go out to his family during this time of sadness.…
The semi-finals of all the competitions take place starting on Friday afternoon. The log toppers of the u19’s were the Bulls while WP finished first in the u21’s. Both teams are expected to progress to their respective age-group finals. The real attention will be on the other two semis which are expected to be closely fought affairs. Here the Lions u19’s host the Sharks u19, while the Bulls u21 strengthened by the return of several senior Currie Cup players are home to the Sharks u21.
Two very important junior promotion-relegation matches between sides from Border and the Eastern Province Kings are also scheduled to take place this weekend.…
There are reports circulating in the media that Commercial Director Rudolf Straueli will leave the Sharks shortly to join the Lions.
If he does go, there is a chance that more details about his management style during his time in Durban will be talked about more openly and perhaps in that lies the opportunity to find out more or less what kind of a decision-making influence he exercised over schoolboy rugby in KwaZulu-Natal.…
Hilton has confirmed the appointment of AC Blume as their new 1st XV rugby coach. The energetic young Afrikaans teacher and assistant housemaster was assistant coach to Brad Macleod-Henderson over the past couple of seasons.…
He’s quite possibly the most well-known SBR blogger in the country, so when it came to finding someone to share his opinion on the Kwazulu-Natal Craven Week team from representatives of the last 10 years, who better to ask than KZN’s very own Grasshopper. Here are his picks:…
The list of schoolboy players involved in under-19 Currie Cup rugby continues to grow. This week EG Jansen’s successful captain Pieter Jansen will be in action for the Lions against Border while the selection of talented Innocent Radebe, the St Stithian’s and Golden Lions flyhalf on the Sharks under-19 bench for Saturday’s match against Western Province has come as a bit of a surprise.…
I enlisted the help of Queens College Class of 2011 old boy Ludz to compile a Border team made up of players that had represented the union at Craven Week over the last 10 seasons. Here’s what he came up with: …
Young Muzi (twitter: @muzimsimango) often gets asked if he is a rugby agent. I asked him to pick his Bulls Craven Week team from the last 10 seasons : 2004-2013. …
Upon request blogger and Western Cape school rugby knowledgeable BuffelsCM was kind enough to help out by providing his Western Province Craven Week team for the 10 seasons from 2004 – 2013:…
KlofiePa drew my attention to this really good article from the Business Day written by Liz McGregor who visited Dale College in King Williams town. She writes about a possible reason why we produce so few black Springboks.…
Een van die mees gesogte SA skolerugby werksgeleenthede / one of the most prestigious jobs in SA schoolboy rugby is up for grabs:…
The under-19 and under-21 Currie Cup competitions are also nearing the playoff stages. Just one round of competition lies ahead with a few final log places still to be decided.…
The highly successful Premier Interschools has been responsible for bring top quality schoolboy rugby back onto the tellie after a period of during which televised games had become very rare. The formula has been to focus on popular traditional rivalries.…
The DRSU are playing the Blue Bulls and the DRSU invitation sides are playing Pretoria Harlequins. Fixtures below:…
The SA under-16 High Performance training camp did not go ahead this year. These are the players that were chosen for the camp.…
I came to hear about this over the weekend for the first time. Just remember you know the context whenever someone starts a statement with the word “apparently” so here it goes: …
On from 23-24 September 2014 in Pretoria at Curro-Hazeldean. WON by the VALKE with DEWALD HUMAN of SWD and OUTENIQUA being awarded the Player of the Tournament prize.…
Finally the adults seem to have that put their differences aside, meaning that in 2014 the boys from Westville and Glenwood can again do what they have always wanted to do all along and that is to just play some good hard rugga against each other. …
The WP Sevens team for the national provincial under-18 tournament to be held at Curro Hazeldean on 23/24 September 2013.…
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