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DigiTV has to up their game for Wildeklawer
For the first time in many years, SuperSport will not be live broadcasting a day of Wildeklawer rugby. DigiTV have been offered that opportunity to fill this void. The online streaming company will livestream both match days of 02 and 04 May 2019. However if the current Kingswood Jubilee Festival is anything to go by, then some serious work is needed to improve reliability.…
Schoolboy gets R2000 as Man of the Match
It’s been part of the Premier Interschool package for a while but now that the Man of the Match is receiving a cash reward for his efforts, it’s raised a few eyebrows.
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2019 1st XV schoolboy rugby players with well-known sportsman relatives
Here’s a list of the known 1st XV players who are related to fairly well-known sportsmen of the past/present.…
Capricorn Group Sevens Rugby Tournament 2019 – SA u18 team
The international under-18 Sevens tournament featuring South Africa, Botswana, Germany, Zimbabwe and hosts Namibia will be played on Windhoek Gymnasium’s artificial pitch on 08-09 March 2019. From 08-09 February 2019, a training squad of 22 SA hopefuls will be put through their paces in the Cape before a final touring team of 13 picked to represent South Africa at the international event.…
Super Rugby 2019 discussion thread
For anything you want to say about Super Rugby
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School rugby is dying
A recent New Zealand Rugby report surprisingly pointed to the decreasing schoolboy rugby participation at an “alarming rate”.…
Google Translate to English (or Afrikaans)
Hi everyone.
Just as an experiment I’ve loaded Google Translate.
So you can switch Afrikaans to English or English to Afrikaans and there is an original text override somewhere.…
Matric Results 2018 : ranking table for rugby schools
Updated to include several IEB schools
Rondebosch produced outstanding results to edge out Bishops and finish top for NSC examination schools that perform reasonably well in rugby in their respective regions.
The IEB schools have been left off until all required data is available. What is known is that St John’s College had an amazing set of results and if their university pass rate is 90% or higher, they would finish above Rondebosch. Helpmekaar and Kearsney not only achieved a 100% pass rate, all their students got degree passes. Hilton were also amongst those that showed academic improvement as they closed the gap on KZN’s IEB leading schools.
Here is a table listing the matric results 2018 achievements and ranking of most of the rugby playing high schools who progress is tracked during the season on this website.
Please note that the weighting for this ranking relies primarily on University Degree passes and Maths/Physics achievement.
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