Kick to the head for KZN Craven Week selectors
Following a dismal Craven Week there was salt to add to the wounds of the KZN Craven Week selectors when the Sharks Academy saw it fit to award Westville centre Bradley Ellse a big bursary.…
Month: August 2013
Future looks bright for Paul Roos
Paul Roos supporters would have been feeling down in the dumps since Saturday’s 8-40 drubbing by traditional season ending rivals Grey College on Markotter. The defeat brought to an end one Paul Roos’ worst year’s ever. THEY DID NOT EVEN WIN A GAME ON MARKOTTER THIS YEAR! UNBELIEVEABLE!…
Rugby Championship 2013 begins
The 2013 Rugby Championship will kick off on Saturday.The four top rugby unions of the Southern Hemisphere will be in action.…
Results – week ending 17 August 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Jansen | Nelspruit | Beeld Trofee macro schools semi | |||
| Kempton Park | 22 | 21 | Waterkloof | Beeld Trofee macro schools semi | |
| Paul Roos | 8 | 40 | Grey College | 25th year celebration. On TV | |
| Dale | 10 | 23 | Queens | ||
| Humansdorp | Die Brandwag | ||||
| Nico Malan | 25 | 39 | Framesby | ||
| Drostdy | 19 | 26 | Paarl BH | ||
| Oakdale | 29 | 10 | Boland Landbou | ||
| Outeniqua | 45 | 5 | Daniel Pienaar | ||
| Stellenberg | 3 | 34 | Paarl Gim | ||
| Bishops | 29 | 34 | Wynberg | ||
| SACS | 17 | 18 | Rondebosch | ||
| Tygerberg | 22 | 10 | Brackenfell | ||
| Louis Botha | 30 | 18 | Jim Fouche | Shimla-Liga knock-out | |
| Nico Malan | Langenhoven Gim/Punt | Burger next week – | |||
| Outeniqua | Marlow | Burger Trophy next week |
SA Schools u18 Internationals 2013 : SARU not doing enough for SA Schools
SARU are falling short of making the SA Schools experience all that it deserves to be. On Tuesday night the SA Schools team beat their French under-18 counterparts 17-13 it what felt like a bit of a covert operation.…
Quotas unlikely to end any time soon
Those of you who thought or hoped we might be nearing a time when rugby quotas in SA get scrapped and transformation starts to take care of itself, guess again. For the 2014 Vodacom Cup season SARU has just upped it’s transformation drive by instituting quotas along the lines of those used to determine school age-group provincial teams.…
SuperBru – Rugby Championship & Currie Cup
I’ve added a pool for the Rugby Championship which starts on 17/08/2013:
pool name: Schoolboy Rugby Blog
pool code: jivehuts
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Beeld Trofee 2013: quarter-finals and semi-finals
The Beeld Trofee is well into the knockout stages now. Starting this weekend 64 school teams will take part in 32 semi-final matches.…
The future of Dale College
An article by Playa ahead of this weekends big Dale vs Queens derby – one of the oldest and best in South Africa.
Unbeknown to most, Dale College admitted its first black learner way back in 1901. It would be another 90 years before the next group of what were then known as ‘Guinea Pigs’ would be admitted as Dalians.
Dale played their first all-school game in 1891 against their biggest foe to date, Queens College. Out of the school’s 4 main rivals (others being Selborne College, St Andrews College and Grey High School), and until recently Queens have been the only rival that has won more games than Dale on head to head (Grey PE went ahead of Dale in 2005). Dale were last ahead of Queens in 1975.…
KZN Sevens leg on at Glenwood
The annual KZN leg of the schools Sevens tournament takes place at Glenwood on Saturday, 17 August. It’s an all day affair starting at 8am and featuring 17 KZN teams along with 3 from Gauteng.…
SA Schools named changed team to face France u18
A number of changes have been made to the SA Schools starting line-up for the second round of the under-18 international series. France got thumped properly by Wales and one suspects that French under-18’s will have to reinvent themselves just as their under-20 national team did against the Baby Boks at the Junior World Champs earlier this year, if they are to stand any change during this game. The curtain-raiser is Wales versus England which should be a cracker. The SWD Craven Week team minus a number of their stars who are on duty for SA Schools, will have a shot against the wounded Italian under-18 team in the earlier game. It should be good.…
Grey High unbeaten Eastern Cape champions 2013
The two Eastern Cape big cities rivals Grey High of PE and Selborne of East London went head to head on Friday, 09 August it what is always a highlight game on the school rugby calendar. The match was played in difficult weather conditions at Grey’s home ground in Port Elizabeth this year and by halftime the result still hung in the balance. …
‘Blowing ones own Horn’
By Grasshopper
Having worked in business for 15 years I have realised that the best kind of PR is that done by others not associated with your brand and advocate customers. In relation to schools this would be parents, kids and Old Boys of other schools and the schools own fraternity.
With the advent of Social Media schools have started to do quite a bit of their own PR via Twitter and Facebook, some even creating business Linkedin profiles. With the huge amount of professionalism in school sport and the large amounts of revenue being handled by schools, they have had to treat them as businesses. However, each school has decided either to embrace technology and social PR or to avoid it. …
KZN 2014 fixtures put on ice
There is a lot of enjoyment derived from watching KZN schoolboy rugby. It’s good rugby and there is a lot of passion and commitment on display. But lets face it, there’s also a ton of sidelines drama here in the province as well. So I couldn’t help but laugh when I found out that even when all rivals are at off-season peace with each other and things feel like they have settled down, along comes the Minister of Education to get in on the act and properly ….. ! There will be a lot of holidays during the 2014 KZN school rugby season. …
Grey College vs Paul Roos – 25 years of rugby passion
This year Grey College and Paul Roos Gymnasium will be celebrating 25 years of inter-schools. The two schools that share similar values and have common histories with regards to the establishments of the universities in their respective regions, will meet on the rugby field for the 30th time since 1967. In 1988 the fixture became annual event and has since grown to become one of the most highly anticipated and certainly one of the biggest rugby rivalries on the SA schoolboy rugby calendar. …
WP u18 too good for Italy
Craven Week winners Western Province Schools minus stalwarts Rikus Bothma, Jacques Vermeulen, Thomas du Toit, Grant Hermanus, Daniel du Plessis (Paul Roos) and Daniel du Plessis (HJS), and still without JD Schickerling were too strong for the touring Italian under-18 team, beating them 39-17 on Friday, 09 August.…
SA Schools team defeat England in Under-18 International Series
August 09, 2013 The SA Schools team on Friday overcame a determined England outfit in their opening match of the Under-18 International Series at City Park stadium in Cape Town for a 19-14 victory and a strong start to the series.
The clash proved to be thrilling, as both sides showed fantastic skills, brute physicality and put in a series of big hits.…
BHP Top 50 – week ending 03 August 2013
So very tight at the top. All the interest has been on the top 2 who are only separated by 5 100ths of a point. Further down, the Northvaal battle via the BeeldTrofee is winding down with Jansies and Nellies looking set to contest for 5th spot in SA this year. In form Klofies not done yet in either and they could still claim a top 10 finish in 2013.…
Results – week ending 10 August 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugenote | 22 | 14 | Boland Landbou | {R.I.P. Ploegskaar} | |
| Dan Pienaar | 15 | 17 | Die Brandwag | ||
| Queens | 40 | 25 | Cambridge | ||
| Oakdale | 28 | 3 | Framesby | ||
| Outeniqua | 36 | 23 | Noord-Kaap | 13h05 Kwagga Dag – on TV | |
| EG Jansen | 36 | 0 | Marlow | 14h20 Kwagga Dag | |
| Garsfontein | 71 | 3 | Tygerberg | 15h30 Kwagga Dag | |
| Nico Malan | 17 | 17 | Diamantveld | Kwagga Dag | |
| Grey College | 68 | 7 | Glenwood | ||
| Grey HS | 45 | 0 | Selborne | On TV – Friday 12h55 | |
| Queens | 60 | 3 | Hangklip | ||
| Dale | 19 | 28 | Hudson Park |
SA Schools squad to face England announced
August 07, 2013 SA Schools coach Chris October on Wednesday announced his squad to face England in their opening International Under-18 Series clash on Friday at the City Park Stadium in Cape Town.
Western Province and Paarl Gym No8 Rikus Bothma will lead the squad which features seven players who took part of the victorious SA Schools team last season. …
EG’s Pieter Jansen placed on standby for SA Schools
Valke Craven Week hooker Pieter Jansen, who also captains Dr EG Jansen, has been placed on standby for the SA Schools squad ahead of their under-18 international quadrangular series against England, France and Wales. Jansen’s standby is as a result of unfortunate HJS Paarl Boys High and Western Province hooker Daniel du Plessis, who has not regained full fitness after picking up an injury during the Craven Week final against the Golden Lions.…
It’s virtually official – Affies will be no.1 in 2013
Well I asked BHP to run the numbers regarding whether Paarl Gim could overtake Affies on the BHP SA Top 50 rankings (the formula driven ranking system). In a nutshell the answer is NO! No matter what Gim do in their up and coming games, they don’t have enough in terms of quality opposition to reel in Affies at the top.…
Schools boys given the opportunity to train with a rugby legend
Compliments of Shawn Belluigi 
06 August 2013. John Mitchell, ex All Blacks player and coach who is famous for guiding the Lions to Currie Cup Victory, will teach approximately 2 400 rugby players from 40 schools around South Africa about what it takes to ‘Power Through’ from school boy rugby to Super Rugby and beyond. He will be demonstrating new techniques, drills and give guidance on other performance related aspects of training, like hydration, before, during and after matches. …
Glenwood beats Maritzburg College 33-15
The KwaZulu-Natal schoolboy rugby season ended with an entertaining match on Dixons field in Durban where Glenwood hosted Maritzburg College. College got out of the blocks well building up a 15-0 lead by the 20th minute. Glenwood fought back with five tries during the next 50 minutes to eventually run out 33-15 winners and increase an unbeaten streak against College that now dates back to 2010.…