Port Natal Night Series 2016 – fixtures
After the fantastic high of the 2015 tournament which featured DHS and produced a number of memorable games including a nail-biting finish to the final between after the final hooter winners Glenwood and Westville, the Port Natal Night Series 2016 sponsored by Kenfield Tyres has been characterised by the withdrawal of all three KZN Tier-1 rugby teams’ 1st XV squads. …
Rugby Skillset App available
A user-friendly tool to help school teams generate pro stats using just an ANDROID smartphone or a tablet is now available. …
ETV Breakfast Show – 07h10 Tuesday 02 Feb 2016
It’s believed that ETV’s Breakfast Show tomorrow morning at 07h10 will be discussing the Parktown/KES matter as well as the roll of agents/scouts.…
Accredited agent vs talent scout
In the wake of the Parktown/KES matter where two talented rugby players who are both younger than 18 moved between the schools, with Parktown using the word “agent” in their own letter describing on how events unfolded, it called into question whether or not the players could be represented by a rugby agent given their respective ages.…
Opportunity for Hilton to add to their rugby coaching structure
Hilton are already in the fortunate position of being able to afford both Brad Macleod-Henderson and Greg Miller to oversee their rugby. Recently it was confirmed that Shane Gaffney, their existing Director of Sports and Director of Coaching Cricket had been announced as the St Dominic’s College Welkom Headmaster with effect from the 2nd term of 2016.…
Cambridge Winter Sport Festival 2016
Match days: Saturday 25 June and Monday 27 June 2016.…
Parktown disagreement with KES
Included: letter from Parktown detailing their views as well as a letter issued by KES to their own community prior to the Parktown letter
Parktown has withdrawn (suspended) sporting fixtures against KES in the interim. The two schools are busy talking about this so there are chances that the Parktown issues will be resolved. Two ex-Parktown boys were amongst a group of 20 odd boys (some from state schools, some from independent both boys and co-ed schools) who enrolled from grade 9 -11 at KES this year and are the cause of Parktown’s decision.…
Paul Roos Rugby Day 2016 is on!
Paul Roos Rugby Day will take place on Saturday 12 March 2016.…
2016 : a chance for Schools Sevens to step out of the shadows
2016 is an Olympic year. For the first time Sevens will be on the roster. This will significantly boost the profile of the sport around the world as well as in our own backyard. On top of that South Africa who have struggled to win medals of any kind at the Olympics, have a very good chance of standing on the medal-winners podium …
MasterCoach Conference 2016
MASTERCOACH 2016 :
After the unprecedented success of the Mastercoach Rugby conference in 2014 and 2015, the organisers are excited to introduce their popular and practical oriented rugby conference for 2016 . Their rugby specialists promise to be of a high quality once again and will share their knowledge and experience of the international stage. The conference is on from 26-27 February 2016.
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Athletics vs water polo in a rugby context
Paul Roos at the Drie-Hoek in the Boland
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Matric exams 2015 analysis of 15 high schools
Thank you to well-known blogger Grasshopper who done the time consuming research on the matric results of:
KZN: Glenwood, DHS, Northwood, Maritzburg College, Westville Boys’, Westville Girls
Gauteng: KES, Jeppe, Pretoria Boys High, Jeppe
Free State: Grey College
Eastern Cape: Grey High
Western Cape: Rondebosch, SACS, Paul Roos
and produced this detailed and very interesting table below:
Please note stats taken from EWN website data.
(Click on table to enlarge)
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Bulls u19 – 50 contracted players for 2016
When it comes to announcing the newest members of their rugby fraternity it’s unusual for the Bulls to be slow out of the starting blocks. This time around for whatever reasons, the Bulls have delayed their squad release, even though the last of the kids born in 1997 is over the SARU stipulated minimum contracting age of 18.…
Rugby schools’ matric results rankings 2015
Here’s a table listing the matric results 2015 achievements and ranking of various high schools that often perform well at rugby or are traditionally well supported teams.…
Matric results 2015
The national matric pass rate has dropped from 75.8% in 2014 to 70.7% in 2015.
The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate.…
No hijacking of Kingswood vs Grey PE warm-up match
A chance for the small Grahamstown private school Kingswood to pull off a David versus Goliath outcome against regional giants Grey High on Friday, 18 March – first term break up day for government schools in SA* – has been taken off the cards and spectators will not have the opportunity to redefine it as a proper match.…
Westville official lands top job at Glenwood feeder school
Hennie Havemann, the Westville Boys’ High Director of Marketing and Boarding, is set to become the new Penzance Primary School Headmaster.…
Foothold for College while Westville loses ground
Maritzburg College has made great strides forward judging by the make-up of the new KwaZulu-Natal High Schools Rugby Association Executive Board, KZN under-18 selectors and under-18 coaches panels. This while fellow KZN rugby powerhouse Westville Boys’ High appears to have taken a step backwards in as far as their influence in the decision-making process is concerned.…
KZN Coaches & Selectors 2016
KZN move a step closer to “One School One Vote” at under-18 level…
Centurion & Eldoraigne kill two birds with one stone
A smart joint decision has been made by Centurion and Eldoraigne. They have agreed to have their Tuks Reeks match in March double as a Beeld Bulls Macro B-league encounter. As a result the two Pretoria Co-eds avoid having to play each other twice via scheduled matches. There is however no guarantee that they won’t meet during the knockout phase of either cup competition. …
School rugby coaching / managing changes in EP
There are a few interesting rugby coaching movements in the EP region.…
WPRI u19 intake for 2016
Western Province has officially made public who their contracted WPRI under-19 recruits for 2016 are:…
2 Grant Khomo under-16 teams for hosts WP
It’s an overworked complaint on the blog but does it ever get old? No it doesn’t! It’s just logical that given the depth of schoolboy rugby talent existing in their region, Western Province should have two representative teams at each and every one of the July school holiday provincial youth weeks. The 2016 Grant Khomo Week takes place at Paarl Gymnasium and two WP teams will be participating. With the 50:50 quota seemingly having the least impact on the overall standard of play of teams along the Cape coastal belt , the next question is what are the chances of an all-WP final at Grant Khomo Week 2016? Here are the Day 1 fixtures:
| FIELD | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Blue Bulls | Limpopo | ||
| A | KwaZulu-Natal | Pumas | ||
| A | Western Province XV | Griffons | ||
| A | Golden Lions | Free State | ||
| A | Western Province | Boland | ||
| B | Zimbabwe | Border CD | ||
| B | Valke | Griquas CD | ||
| B | SWD | Namibia | ||
| B | Border | Leopards | ||
| B | Eastern Province | Griquas |
Kennedy Tsimba to head up St Alban’s rugby
Former Zimbabwean test player Kennedy Tsimba who really made a name for himself in South Africa as a creative flyhalf wearing the colours of Free State, has been appointed to the position of Director of Rugby here at St Alban’s College, with effect from 1 January 2016.…
Grey High Rugby Festival 2016
| FIELD | TEAM | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Windhoek Gym | Ithembelihle |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Muir | Hudson Park |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Framesby | St Alban’s |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Dale | St David’s |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Daniel Pienaar | Graeme |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Queen’s | Pearson |
| Philip | 1st XV | Sat.30Apr | Grey HS | Parktown |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | St Alban’s | Muir |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | St David’s | Ithembelihle |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | Graeme | Dale |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | Daniel Pienaar | Hudson Park |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | Parktown | Pearson |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | Grey HS | Windhoek Gym |
| Philip | 1st XV | Mon.02May | Framesby | Queen’s |
Lower Age-Group fixtures below…
Sharks under-19 contracted players for 2016
Sharksworld, the outstanding must read website for all Sharks fans everywhere has an article on the Sharks under-19 contracted players for 2016. Check it out here : Sharks under 19′s for 2016 confirmed.…
Paul Roos’ SA Schools coach joins the Pumas senior team
Suparugby has reported that the Pumas have signed Hein Kriek, the current Paul Roos and SA Schools head coach as an assistant to head coach MJ Mentz at the Pumas.…
Academy Week – Day 1 & Day 2 Fixtures
The under-18 Academy Week takes place at Kearsney College, Botha’s Hill (40km from Durban) starting on Monday, 11 July 2016.…
Drostdy North-South 2016
At first sight, HTS Drostdy’s North-South Festival with match days on Monday 21 March 2015 and Thursday 24 March 2015, does not look like it will present the Drostdy players with too much of a challenge. There will however be some good matchups for spectators to enjoy.…
End of the road for the Pukke Skouspel
On a sad note the annual Pukke Skouspel organised by the North West University and played at their grounds ahead of Easter weekend is no more. Financial reasons were behind the decision to scrap the festival.…
Beeld champions Garsfontein to make their debut at Wildeklawer 2016
Garsfontein, who made history in 2015 by capturing the first ever Beeld Trophy Makro Schools title, are close to finalising what looks like a very challenging fixture list for 2016. A significant change is the effective switching from St John’s Rugby Festival to Wildeklawer, where they will take on Grey College in the opening match.…
Grey College draft fixture list for 2016
To a large extent it will be business as usual for Grey College in 2016. They’ll again go head to head with a good few of the rugby schools challenging for SA Top 10 spots next season. There are however two interesting changes on the fixture list of the Boys in Blue.…
Affies 1st XV rugby fixtures for 2016
The www.Affiesrugby.co.za has put up a detailed list of the Affies rugby fixtures for 2016 here: http://www.affiesrugby.co.za/2016-bepalings.html…
KZN to adopt a new Craven Week, Academy Week, Grant Khomo Week trial ranking system in 2016
A brand new ranking the player under-16 and under-18 trials method and format for 2016 was agreed on at the KZN High School Rugby AGM. The Tier-1 structure looks like it has been finalised. There are still some discussions and possible changes to the Tier-2 and Country Districts school pools to come.…
KZNRU President talks about school rugby & rugby after school
The KZNRU President Graham Mackenzie made interesting contributions at the KZN High Schools Rugby AGM.…
KZN needs to start thinking outside the box
Talking schoolboy rugby in KZN, there’s belief amongst school officials that change is needed and in some cases it’s believed to be way overdue.
The AGM for high schools which takes place on Saturday 07 November 2016, is the time and place for school representatives who feel this way to come out, say exactly what’s bugging them about the current systems and/or personnel and then use their vote to help bring about meaningful change.…