Waterkloof cancels sports against Garsfontein
In the latest article on Stoopstat.co.za entitled “Player Poaching, Same Old Story Slightly New Cast”, the second last paragraph points to an unfortunate development in Pretoria:…
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Grey College Head blogs about drugs in school sport
In his February blog new Grey College headmaster Deon Scheepers cuts straight to the chase, mentioning how the increasing overlap of school and professional rugby as well as schools using rugby as a marketing strategy is placing pressure on boys to perform well like never before.…
Thank goodness! Affies vs Klofies is back
There were a few years during which the two Pretoria powerhouse teams were not playing each other. Fortunately this period of “isolation” came to an end last year when the two schools squared off…
New Grey College Head hints at future fixture changes
Deon Scheepers, the former Hilton teacher and 1st XV rugby coach for one season, is now firmly in the driving seat at Grey College, having taken over as headmaster from the legendary Johan Volsteedt. In a recent blog, Scheepers highlighted the importance of achieving a healthy balance between academics, culture and sport for boys at Grey.…
Schools of the 2013 SA Super Rugby squad players
Taking the South African Superugby wider squads for 2013 as they appear on Wikipedia, here is the long list of the 202 players with the schools that 197 of them attended. The 5 Kings foreigners are overlooked.…
Wildeklawer 2011
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat.30Apr | Marlow | 66 | 12 | Wildeklawer XV |
| Sat.30Apr | Diamantveld | 47 | 10 | Framesby |
| Sat.30Apr | HTS Middelburg | 38 | 10 | Outeniqua |
| Sat.30Apr | Monument | 40 | 13 | Boland Landbou |
| Sat.30Apr | Glenwood | 34 | 22 | EG Jansen |
| Sat.30Apr | Waterkloof | 48 | 10 | Paul Roos |
| Sat.30Apr | Grey College | 14 | 10 | Paarl Gim |
| Sat.30Apr | Affies | 25 | 10 | HJS Paarl BH |
| Mon.02May | HJS Paarl BH | 45 | 03 | EG Jansen |
| Mon.02May | Affies | 59 | 06 | Paarl Gim |
| Mon.02May | Glenwood | 13 | 08 | Paul Roos |
| Mon.02May | Framesby | 25 | 17 | HTS Middelburg |
| Mon.02May | Diamantveld | 49 | 21 | Boland Landbou |
| Mon.02May | Monument | 37 | 24 | Outeniqua |
| Mon.02May | Grey College | 21 | 16 | Waterkloof |
| Mon.02May | Wildeklawer XV | 00 | 10 | Duineveld |
Free State signs 3 Glenwood players for 2013
Three Glenwood youngsters scrumhalf Zee Mkhabela, lock Sihle Ngxabi and flyhalf Warren Potgieter were in the Free State Cheetahs shopping cart along with several other promising schoolboys and have been checked out for the 2013 season.…
Monnas SA Schools lock joins the Cheetahs
Phillip du Preez, the former Monnas and SA Schools 2011 lock has been snapped up by the Free State after it surfaced that the Bulls were interested in releasing him along with a number of other junior players.…
A big 2013 awaits Noord-Kaap
The 2013 season holds several exciting challenges for Noord-Kaap, one of the pillars of Griqualand West high schools rugby.
The most imposing of these will be their keenly-anticipated debut at the prestigious Wildeklawer festival, hosted by Maritzburg College early in May. …
Monnas welcomes back Hans Coetzee
Hans Coetzee is set to make his return to Monument High School in Krugersdorp some five years after leaving. The veteran coach who knows Monnas like the back of his hand will take over as Director of Rugby from Namibia bound Wynand Moolman. …
Grey College & Free State -Griquas rugby fixtures 2013
As usual Grey College set the standard when it comes to playing against the very best that South African schoolboy rugby has to offer.…
Beeldtrofee 2013: Is EG Jansen leaving the Macro Schools competition?
The Beeldtrofee is divided into four school divisions competitions that play matches at under-14, under-15, under-16 and first XV levels. The four divisions are Small Schools, Medium Schools, Big Schools and Macro Schools. The Macro Schools competition sees many of the well-known for rugby Afrikaans high schools situated north of the Vaal River battle it out in a knockout style format with the winners of each age-group claiming a Beeld trophy.…
5 schoolboys named in Bulls SupeRugby training group
If you live in Pretoria you’d better look for your name on this list below. It seems like the Bulls have named everyone that resides in the greater Tshwane district in their wider training group for SupeRugby 2013.…
School athletes suspended for taking drugs
According to a Sunday Times news report, King Edward VII School has banned three of its athletes from all sports activities after they confessed to using performance enhancing drugs. …
Rugby staff changes for Monnas, Paul Roos & Dale
This year well established traditional rugby schools Monument, Paul Roos Gymnasium and Dale College bid farewell to leading figures in their rugby programmes.…
2012 @Lantic Provincial 7s : KZN finishes 4th
Free State was crowned as national provincial under-18 7s champions for 2012 on Friday after they defeated the Valke 40-33 in the final of the @lantic tournament. KwaZulu-Natal finished in fourth place.…
@lantic u18 Provincial 7’s : KZN in Cup semifinals
The KwaZulu-Natal u18 team has beaten SWD 26-19 in the quarterfinals of the competition today. KZN now plays the Valke in the semifinals at 14h00 today. The match will be broadcast live on SuperSport 6 (ch.206).…
@lantic 7s u18 Provincial Tournament 2012
The annual @lantic under-18 7’s tournament for Provincial teams takes place on 04-05 October 2012 at Tukkies in Pretoria.…
SA HP u16 Squad 2012
After much delay, the 50 player strong HP under-16 squad has finally been published. KwaZulu-Natal has four representatives, while the Lions have nine and Western Province plus the Free State contribute eight boys apiece. Grey College from Bloemfontein is the best represented school with four followed by Glenwood with three. The players will attend a training camp from 30 September to 7 October at the Paarl Gymnasium High School…
Grey College’s “bad year” ends
Grey College ended their 2012 season on a high note when they beat traditional end of season rivals Paul Roos 33-23 on Saturday. When the 2012 season started, Paul Roos was the last team on record to beat Grey and that was way back in 2009. …
Beeldtrofee 2012 semi-finals (and final) results
UPDATED (to include final results)…
SBR Weekend – 04/08/2012
| Maritzburg College | 27 | 27 | Glenwood |
| Grey College | 58 | 10 | Kearsney |
| Dale | 12 | 7 | Selborne |
| Daniel Pienaar | 29 | 19 | Marlow |
| Grey PE | 35 | 29 | Framesby |
| Queens | 47 | 3 | Hangklip |
| St Andrews | 47 | 17 | Muir |
| Diamantveld | 46 | 10 | Jeppe |
| Affies | 36 | 20 | Pretoria BH |
| Ermelo | 36 | 12 | Ben Vorster |
| Garsfontein | 23 | 17 | Florida |
| Middelburg | 25 | 25 | Garsfontein |
| Middelburg HTS | 26 | 16 | Menlopark |
| Kempton Park | 19 | 19 | Centurion |
| Kempton Park | 31 | 24 | Rustenburg |
| KES | 82 | 3 | Parktown |
| Klerksdorp | 31 | 25 | Alberton |
| Monument | 25 | 8 | Middelburg |
| Waterkloof | 46 | 21 | EG Jansen |
| Boland Landbou | 55 | 10 | De Kuilen |
| Drostdy | 12 | 11 | Paul Roos |
| Oakdale | 41 | 5 | Punt |
| Outeniqua | 68 | 14 | Oudtshoorn |
| Paarl Gim | 16 | 9 | Paarl BH |
| SACS | 26 | 6 | Rondebosch |
| Tygerberg | 22 | 20 | Swartland |
| Wynberg | 25 | 16 | Bishops |
Beeldtrofee Quarterfinals 2012
The Beeld Trofee quarterfinals for macro schools will be played on Saturday,04 August.
The noticeable absentee from the line-up for this knockout stage is Centurion. …
2012 SA Schools Squad named
Four Kwazulu-Natal players have been included in the SA Schools 28-player strong squad to take on England, France and Wales during August…
SBR Weekend – 28/07/2012
| Affies | 28 | 10 | Glenwood | |
| Pretoria BH | 26 | 25 | Maritzburg College | |
| Marlow | 39 | 10 | Oakdale | |
| Outeniqua | 39 | 8 | Framesby | |
| Drostdy | 19 | 18 | SACS | |
| Rondebosch | 8 | 38 | Paarl Gym | |
| Bishops | 10 | 26 | Paul Roos | |
| Bellville | 8 | 49 | Boland Landbou | |
| Wynberg | 6 | 12 | Paarl BH | |
| Tygerberg | 19 | 24 | De Kuilen | |
| Graeme College | 15 | 11 | Kingswood | |
| Selborne | 17 | 26 | Queens | |
| Grey College | 22 | 3 | Grey High | |
| Dale | 22 | 20 | St Andrews | |
| Jeppe | 28 | 13 | KES | |
| Centurion | 19 | 19 | Kempton Park | Beeld Trofee – 31/07 |
| HTS Middelburg | 26 | 16 | Menlopark | Beeld Trofee – 31/07 |
| Garsfontein | 23 | 17 | Florida | Beeld Trofee – 31/07 |
College and Glenwood head to Pretoria
Maritzburg College and Glenwood may pack a bit of a psychological advantage for their trips up to Pretoria this week but won’t be under any kind of illusion about their tasks ahead.…
Maritzburg College 7 Affies 33 : Match Report
Affies, a team with a big pack of forwards, would have been forgiven for using their size advantage to play a 10-man bash it up game against Maritzburg College. Instead they impressed with their expansive style of rugby. The Pretoria school went on to record a five tries to one 33-7 win against Maritzburg College on Goldstones.…
Maritzburg College vs Affies
Maritzburg College will face an Affies team of a different kind when the teams meet on Goldstones at 13:15 on 21 July. The game will be televised on Supersport thanks to Megapro’s Premier Interschools sponsorship.…
SA Schools u18 Trial Group 2012 (50 players)
Maritzburg College’s Jesse Kriel, one of the star players of Craven Week 2012 along with the Kearsney College trio of Sandile Kubeka and the du Preez twins Daniel and Jean-Luc have all cracked the nod to be included in the SA Schools 50-player squad. …
Craven Week 2012 Fixtures : How Day 1 & 2 might turn out
The tried and tested format at Craven Week is amongst other considerations and objectives to work towards two teams, one from the Day 1 group and the other from the Day 2 group, meeting in Saturday’s unofficial final. This means that the main matches on days 3 and 4 have to more or less serve as semi-finals.…
Craven Week 2012 : Players to watch
Craven Week is about to kick off. Handre Pollard the Paarl Gim, Western Province under 18 and Junior World Championship winning flyhalf has certainly added considerable weight to the term “high-profile player” this SBR season.…
Academy Week – Day 2 results
The KZN Country Districts continued to impress with another win, while the KZN team suffered a heavy defeat.…
Grant Khomo Week Day 2
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Academy Week Day 2
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Academy Week Day 1 results
Things didn’t go according to plan for the KZN Academy team on Day 1 in Wellington. They went down 34-19 to South Western Districts, this after being just 14-15 behind at the halftime break. It seems like disciple was a major cause for concern with no fewer than three yellow cards being issued to KZN players during the match.…
Academy Week 2012
Wellington in the Boland is the venue for this year’s provincial under-18 Academy Week running from 02-05 July. The match days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, so it’s quite congested and will be physically demanding on the players.…