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Craven Week 2013: Bulls team named along with Academy & Noordvaal
The Bulls have named there extremely powerful team for Craven Week. The competition for starting places was fierce. In the end Francois Steyn held off Vean Roodt, Hyron Andrews got the nod ahead of Abongile Nonkwantana and Justin Phillips edged out Ivan van Zyl to be in the starting XV.…
Grant Khomo 2013: Bulls name team & 2 Noordvaal u16 teams
The Bulls have named 3 under-16 teams, the Grant Khomo team as well as 2 teams to take park in the Noordvaal under-16 tournament. …
Outeniqua vs Affies – Kwagga Dag special cancelled
From twitter:
School of Rugby
@schoolofrugbyThe match between Affies & Outeniqua scheduled for 10 August has been canceled.
This was meant to be the highlight of Kwagga Dag. News filtering through is that Affies pulled the plug.…
Craven Week 2013: Free State trials
On Monday 27 May 2013, 138 hopefuls will take part in Free State under-18 trials at Sentraal.…
Battleground Pretoria: Affies vs Klofies
The fact that the Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool Pretoria (Affies) versus Hoërskool Waterkloof (Klofies) match did not take place for a few years did not dim anyone’s enthusiasm. On the contrary it just seemed to increase everyone’s desire to see this game return so that the schools regarded as the top two in Pretoria had a showdown.…
Day zero at Grey College
On 19 August 2006, Paul Roos recorded a famous 16-11 win against Grey College in Bloemfontein. For a total of 2458 days thereafter the Grey College home ground became an impenetrable fortress as they built up what must surely be one of the longest unbeaten home streaks in modern era school rugby history. …
Waterkloof beats Garsies in an epic battle! 36-34
Klofies first rugby team beat Garsies on Saturday, this after Waterkloof experienced three losses in a row. The match could have gone either way. Waterkloof beat Garsies 36 – 34 in a very tight match. The match was played in front of a crowd of about 5000 spectators. Garsfontein were optimistic. Their first team has never beaten Waterkloof. …
The state of Free State schools rugby
I leveled some perhaps unfair criticism over the state of Free State schools rugby. It’s certainly not meant to be an attack on the efforts made by schools to train players and produce good teams. It’s more concern over the growing divide between the top school Grey College and the rest in terms of competitiveness. The Free State (including the Griffons) definitely produces enough talented players to ensure that several of its schools would be highly competitive from a national point of view but preventing this is the concentration of talent at just one school only. It’s now gotten to the point that Grey College’s 2nd XV, the Cherries are the second best team in the entire province. This is where the concern lies.…
Grogper Cup: Gauteng 1 game away from victory
There are 2 Grogper Cup games on this weekend. With Gauteng leading 6-3, KZN cannot afford anymore slip ups. KZN has to win the remaining 4 games to clinch a title in which the chase has been made a lot more difficult by the improvement in form of St Alban’s as well as the struggles of St Charles and DHS who lost to St David’s and Parktown respectively along the way.…
Grant Khomo Week 2013: Bulls pick 4 teams to play Pumas
The Bulls have selected 4 under-16 teams to play against the Pumas on Tuesday 21 May as part of trials for Grant Khomo Week.…
Craven Week 2013: Bulls name 6 teams for final trials
The Bulls have named 6 trial teams to play the Pumas on Monday 20 May 2013.…
Bulls u18 teams for trials against Lions
The Bulls have named two under-18 teams to take on their Lions counterparts next Tuesday at Loftus, as part of selection process and preparations for the Craven Week and Academy Weeks for 2013. Of the 30 starters selected 14 have Bulls under-18 representation experience brought forward from 2012. …
High quality player radar: Grey College vs Affies
Grey College against Affies is one of the must watch games if the opportunity presents itself and it has: Saturday, 19h15 on Supersport 1 if you’re not fortune enough to be there live.…
NuPower TUKS finals for 2013
NuPower TUKS for 2013 comes to an exciting end on Saturday at the LC de Villiers Stadium (University of Pretoria sports campus). The main game is the much anticipated match-up between two of the best school rugby 1st XV’s in South Africa this season. Finalists HTS Middelburg and Nelspruit, the two Mpumalanga powerhouses both have outstanding records to date and are worthy of their places in the main event. It looks like it will be a titanic battle to decide who gets crowned the NuPower TUKS champions for 2013.…
KZN needs crucial road victories to keep Grogper Cup dreams alive
After Gauteng raced into a 4-0 lead thanks to outstanding efforts by St Davids and St Albans, KZN’s Northwood spearheaded by their frontrow trio put a spirited fightback to come from 11-3 down at home to beat a gutsy St Benedicts team. Westville backed up this first win in the compo with a very meaningful home result of their own against a strong Pretoria Boys High outfit. At 4-2 and with many feeling that the tail end of this compo will favour the KZN schools, it makes this weekend’s two games tie-breakers of sorts. …
NuPower Tuks semi-finals 2013
The NuPower-Tuks semi-final playoffs will take place this Saturday at the LC de Villiers Stadium, University of Pretoria on Saturday 27 April 2013. Here is the full schedule of games from under-14 to 1st XV.…
Mike Fennell’s schools face tough midweek assignments
The schools of Mike Fennell past and present have their work cut out if they want to achieve the desired results against strong midweek opposition.
Fennell the former headmaster and an old boy of KES took up the post of CEO at DHS earlier this year. On Wednesday KES are away to Affies, while DHS makes the trip up to Pietermaritzburg to face College.…
Westville beats Pretoria Boys High 22-17
Westville produced their best result of 2013 when they beat a strong Pretoria Boys High 1st XV 22-17 on Bowdens 2, alongside their main field.…
Tradisionele rugbyskole verdwyn in “ou Transvaal”!
Geskryf deur Johann van Tonder
Argument dat ‘n skool ‘n tradisionele rugbyskool is, is op eierdoppe gebou. Die onderstaande statistieke oor die wenners van die administrateursbeker/Direkteurstrofee/Beeldtrofee toon hoe tye verander het. Voorheen “tradisionele” rugbyskole verdwyn, en nuwe word gebore. Die lewe verander en mens moet aanpas.…
Unforgiving NuPower-Tuks 2013 final pool games
The third and final round of NuPower-Tuks pool matches will be played this weekend. In terms of the new Super-16 format, only the top team from each group progresses to the knock-out semi-final.…
Gauteng go 4 zero up in the Grogper Cup
KZN teams College and Northwood put in spirited performances against difficult opponents in the form of Pretoria Boys High and Jeppe over the weekend. However 2 more loses, now means that the Gauteng boys have a 4-0 lead with 8 to play. KZN look like they are going to need a European Ryder Cup team like comeback to win this one.…
Grogper Cup 2013
Edited. Okay so your probably wondering what this is all about. Very simple, KZN schools versus English medium Gauteng Schools, eleven games, one on one with the aim to assign all-important bragging rights at the end of the season to the region that wins the most games.…
Top 20 Easter festival games of 2013
Enlisting the help of numerous bloggers from around the country that actively follow schoolboy rugby in South Africa, a list was compiled of the top 20 Easter festival matches that will be taking place over the next few days.
It was unanimously decided that the Grey College versus Outeniqua game to be played at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) on Monday, 01 April 2013, is going to be by far and away the biggest game of them all. …