Tragedy at the Tony Stoops Rugby Festival 2022 as coach passes away
One of the sad events during the school holidays was the passing away of Gerrit Bal, the coach of Vredenburg. …
Drostdy’s 7-games-in-14-days marathon schedule
Drosdy’s hectic fortnight of rugby is finally over. A mammoth 7 games in 14 days!…
Recollection of day spent watching primary & high school festival rugby
I think amongst the joys of the schoolboy rugby sidelines is getting to interact with different people from different walks of life, who all share some sort of attachment to the sport or a school or one of the players on the field. You get to share your different opinions and often learn something interesting and new. And sometimes you just get a reinforcement of a perspective that is worth sharing, like this email I received today:…
Noord-Suid XV of Day 1/2 2022
Just a fun pick…
Top 20 Rankings 2022 predictor – how its panning out so far
Early day but it would be good to see where you feel the top teams are falling into the rank order.…
Grey Rugby Festival 2022
The Grey High Rugby Festival is returning with a bit of oomph! …
Oakdale Rugby Week 2022
The organisers will continue to apply their tried and tested formula of assessing all the teams based on performance after the last match of the day and setting strength-versus-strength match-ups for Day 2 on Monday 28 March 2022. Repeated application for Day 3 on Wednesday 30 March 2022.
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School Rugby Rankings for 1998- 1999 – South Africa
“Rankings in 1999 by Grant Moodie the person that started school rugby rankings in 1994.”
Added: Rankings for 1998 from a local magazine in circulation at the time…
Hoër Jongenskool squad for Noord-Suid 2022
At long last the Boishaai …
Wynberg Rugby Festival 2022 – SS4 team lists
Supporters will get the chance to have their first look at the Cape Town Southern Suburbs big four in action at this popular all age-groups festival. …
NMI Menlyn Toyota Noord-Suid 2022 : Rankings for buzzword: “undercooked”
Ranking the team’s ahead of the premier festival in terms of their readiness for the challenges that await and the toughness of their Noord-Suid fixtures.…
Westville beats Kearsney 22-20 – match report 2022
Match report compiled by Kearsney. I have added a few extra notes in bold blue…
Boland Landbou Rugby Day 2022
Boland Landbou have continued with full 70-minute matches for the main games at their annual early season festival, while all the other matches will be 20-minute per half preseason warmup hit outs for a good number of local WP and Boland region schools.…
Hoërskool Grens steps in to save Border Schools Rugby Day 2022
It now looks certain that the Grens Rugby Festival 2022 will also serve as the venue for this year’s Border Schools Rugby Day.…
Noordvaal Cup competition should not have to wait too long for a new title sponsor
The five year long sponsorship relationship between insurance broker company Virseker and the unique and very popular Noordvaal cup schoolboy rugby competitions has ended. …
Paarl Boys’ High u15 Festival 2022
Fixtures available to date…
March Madness beckons for Stellenberg
While College basketball players in the United State’s NCAA Division 1 gear up for what’s referred to as “March Madness”, a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the US, closer to home, Stellenberg prepares for an SA schoolboy rugby version of popular term when their 2022 season starts with a month chokka block with tough fixtures.…
Grey College & Welkom Gim get 2022 going in Bloem
Grey College and Welkom Gim who have pretty much been the Central region’s No.1 and No.2 ranked 1st XV’s respectively, in recent times, will square off at the Hoërskool President Steyn’s Hester van der Walt Sportdag in Bloemfontein on Saturday 25 March 2022.…
Least experienced 1st XVs of the modern era to kick-off 2022 season
Two of the 2021 season pace-setters Paarl Gymnasium and Grey College will head into the 2022 South African schoolboy rugby season as the early favourites come out on top, but for the most part, determining where the rest of the big guns will fit into the ranking puzzle is a guessing game.…