u19, u20, u21 Rugby

Head coach Chean Roux has effectively made seven changes to his Baby Bok squad ahead of the World Rugby Under-20 Championship 2019. Three players Dian Bleuler, Vaughen Isaacs and Angelo Davids (SA Sevens) have not played a part in the warm-up matches. Four players Elrigh Louw, David Coetzer, Mnombo Zwelindaba and David Kriel, are back in after not touring England and Wales.…

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Junior rugby (under-19 to under-21 levels) has had a bit of a facelift and now very few people in the industry are sure of what the right path will be for an aspiring rugby player once he leaves school.…

31 Oct 2018. Junior Springbok coach Chean Roux invited two squads totalling 74 under-19 and under-18 players for assessment camps in Stellenbosch in November and January with an eye on preparing for the 2019 World Rugby u20 Championship in Argentina. …

The Shark who last played in and won a final back in 2018 are champions after beating the Bulls 40-27 in the final.…

Golden Lions vs Free State
Western Province vs Blue Bulls…

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2018 u19 Championship result:

Bulls u19 33 EP u19 31…

The mother of all home losing streaks is finally over. The record will now show that the Sharks u19 beat the Lions u19 25-10…

The Sharks u19’s beat the Blue Bulls u19’s 22-20 to record their first win in Pretoria since 2012.…

Western Province boasts quite a high profile team for their first round home match against the Blue Bulls in the Under-19 Championship of 2018.…

The Golden Lions who have blown their opponents away during the last two under-19 Currie Cup finals, will get their 2018 campaign underway against EP this weekend with another strong group of players.…

World Rugby u20 Champions 2018  – France beat England 33-25 to clinch their first ever junior world championship rugby title. England has 3 runner-up places to go along with 3 titles in the last 6 years. In that same period New Zealand have claimed 2 title from the only 2 finals their were in. South Africa’s last appearance in a final was in 2014 and their last championship title was on home soil back in 2012. Ireland (2016) and Wales (2013) are the only other nations to have made it to the finals in the last 6 years.

Best ever prepared SA u20 team ready to take on the World Rugby u20 Championships 2018!…

Unlike those that came before them in the last five years, players of the 2018 South African under-20 national team will not be country tried or “captured” as World Rugby likes to put it.

This basically means that even after they have played for the SA under-20 national team, Baby Boks will still be able to lay down roots in another country and represent the senior national team of that other country one day.…

As the preparations for the 2018 World Rugby Under 20 Championships very very slowly move forward towards the June event, here’s a look at how much game-time was afforded to key players. …

An initial South Africa under-20 training squad for the World Rugby u20 Championships has been organised and players have been invited to attend. However it seems like this information in not for the general public’s consumption …