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Sharks Academy’s Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival bursary prize success rate

20 April, 2014 beet 11

Every year at the conclusion of the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival selectors from The Sharks and Sharks Academy hand out bursary prizes to selected players. In 2014 there are three bursaries each valued at over R100 000 when including the contract with the Academy for 2015, accommodation and the tuition bursary with one of its education partners.

In terms of being a marketing tool, the concept is a huge success,  as it draws a lot of media attention. As a method of recruitment, well you can judge for yourself …

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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – Easter Festivals Day 3

20 April, 2014 beet 109
TIME DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL FESTIVAL
09h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Nico Malan 10 25 Dale Kearsney Easter Rugby
10h45 Mon 21/04/2014 Glenwood 31 29 Framesby Kearsney Easter Rugby
12h00 Mon 21/04/2014 Westville 14 20 Selborne Kearsney Easter Rugby
13h15 Mon 21/04/2014 Affies 10 20 HTS Middelburg Kearsney Easter Rugby
14h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Grey College 10 10 Monument Kearsney Easter Rugby
15h45 Mon 21/04/2014 Kearsney 3 25 EG Jansen Kearsney Easter Rugby
08h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Queen’s 28 43 Hentie Cilliers KES
09h50 Mon 21/04/2014 Graeme 3 22 Parktown KES
11h10 Mon 21/04/2014 Marlow 3 36 Menlopark KES
12h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Grey HS 46 26 Rondebosch KES
13h50 Mon 21/04/2014 Eldoraigne 51 9 Trinityhouse KES
15h10 Mon 21/04/2014 KES 50 15 Northwood KES
09h00 Mon 21/04/2014 Klein Nederburg 46 17 St John’s (Harare) St John’s
10h15 Mon 21/04/2014 Noordheuwel 15 55 Waterkloof St John’s
11h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Scots College (Aus) 5 21 Jeppe St John’s
13h30 Mon 21/04/2014 St John’s 26 13 St Charles St John’s
14h45 Mon 21/04/2014 Paul Roos 15 10 Nelspruit St John’s
16h00 Mon 21/04/2014 HJS Paarl BH 45 14 Pretoria BH St John’s
10h25 Mon 21/04/2014 Helpmekaar 27 19 St Benedict’s St Stithians
11h45 Mon 21/04/2014 St Stithians 20 27 SACS St Stithians
13h10 Mon 21/04/2014 Windhoek 13 40 Linden St Stithians
14h30 Mon 21/04/2014 Hilton 18 37 St Andrew’s St Stithians
15h50 Mon 21/04/2014 Wynberg 17 16 Maritzburg college St Stithians
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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – Easter Festivals Day 2

18 April, 2014 beet 204

Day 1 average points difference: (1) KES: 9 (2) St Stithians: 12, (3) KERF: 16, (4) St John’s: 30

TIME DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL FESTIVAL
09h30 Sat 19/04/2014 Selborne 21 13 Framesby Kearsney Easter Rugby
10h45 Sat 19/04/2014 HTS Middelburg 43 22 Nico Malan Kearsney Easter Rugby
12h00 Sat 19/04/2014 Kearsney 24 19 Dale Kearsney Easter Rugby
13h15 Sat 19/04/2014 Glenwood 31 18 EG Jansen Kearsney Easter Rugby
14h30 Sat 19/04/2014 Grey College 32 20 Westville Kearsney Easter Rugby
15h45 Sat 19/04/2014 Affies 14 34 Monument Kearsney Easter Rugby
09h00 Sat 19/04/2014 Menlopark 11 0 Northwood KES Festival
10h20 Sat 19/04/2014 Eldoraigne 47 31 Hentie Cilliers KES Festival
11h40 Sat 19/04/2014 Trinityhouse 5 45 Graeme KES Festival
13h00 Sat 19/04/2014 Rondebosch 14 20 Marlow KES Festival
14h20 Sat 19/04/2014 Grey HS 66 3 Parktown KES Festival
15h40 Sat 19/04/2014 KES 12 17 Queen’s KES Festival
08h45 Sat 19/04/2014 Noordheuwel 7 26 Klein Nederburg St John’s
10h00 Sat 19/04/2014 St Charles 29 7 St John’s (Harare) St John’s
11h15 Sat 19/04/2014 Nelspruit 13 5 Pretoria BH St John’s
13h30 Sat 19/04/2014 St John’s 14 41 Scots College (Aus) St John’s
14h45 Sat 19/04/2014 HJS Paarl BH 12 5 Jeppe St John’s
16h00 Sat 19/04/2014 Paul Roos 13 19 Waterkloof St John’s
10h45 Sat 19/04/2014 Linden 15 50 Wynberg St Stithians
12h05 Sat 19/04/2014 Windhoek 16 10 St Benedict’s St Stithians
13h25 Sat 19/04/2014 SACS 34 38 Helpmekaar St Stithians
14h45 Sat 19/04/2014 St Andrew’s 20 23 Maritzburg College St Stithians
16h15 Sat 19/04/2014 St Stithians 10 34 Hilton St Stithians
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Wildeklawer 2014 matches live on TV

18 April, 2014 beet 6

Apologies. There has been another change to the Wildeklawer fixture list, resulting in unupdated details been sent out by the organisers re: the TV schedule. It results in good news for Monnas supporters. Monnas are now going to play Boland Landbou and that game is NOT being televised.

Glenwood and Waterkloof alose out as SuperSport’s schedule only has room for 8 out of the 10 Wildeklawer Day 1 games on Public Holiday Monday, 28 April 2014 to be televised live.…

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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – Easter Festivals Day 1

16 April, 2014 beet 146

Follow scores on www.webrugby.co.za

TIME DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL FESTIVAL
09h30 Thu 17/04/2014 Kearsney 25 31 HTS Middelburg Kearsney Easter Rugby
10h45 Thu 17/04/2014 Framesby 16 21 Monument Kearsney Easter Rugby
12h00 Thu 17/04/2014 Westville 41 10 Nico Malan Kearsney Easter Rugby
13h15 Thu 17/04/2014 Selborne 12 34 Affies Kearsney Easter Rugby
14h30 Thu 17/04/2014 Glenwood 31 17 Dale Kearsney Easter Rugby
15h45 Thu 17/04/2014 Grey College 26 8 EG Jansen Kearsney Easter Rugby
09h00 Thu 17/04/2014 Eldoraigne 8 6 Marlow KES
10h20 Thu 17/04/2014 Northwood 10 34 Graeme KES
11h40 Thu 17/04/2014 Queen’s 24 16 Parktown KES
13h00 Thu 17/04/2014 Hentie Cilliers 34 27 Trinityhouse KES
14h20 Thu 17/04/2014 KES 13 3 Rondebosch KES
15h20 Thu 17/04/2014 Grey HS 16 17 Menlopark KES
11h00 Thu 17/04/2014 St Charles 0 34 Paarl Boys High St John’s
12h15 Thu 17/04/2014 Paul Roos 80 7 St John’s (Harare) St John’s
13h30 Thu 17/04/2014 Waterkloof 45 19 Klein Nederburg St John’s
15h30 Thu 17/04/2014 Pretoria BH 12 24 Scots College (Aus) St John’s
16h45 Thu 17/04/2014 Jeppe 28 0 Noordheuwel St John’s
18h45 Thu 17/04/2014 St John’s 20 29 Nelspruit St John’s
10h45 Thu 17/04/2014 Hilton 24 23 SACS St Stithians
12h05 Thu 17/04/2014 Linden 14 29 Maritzburg College St Stithians
13h25 Thu 17/04/2014 St Benedict’s 26 43 St Andrew’s St Stithians
14h45 Thu 17/04/2014 St Stithians 16 10 Windhoek St Stithians
16h05 Thu 17/04/2014 Wynberg 29 7 Helpmekaar St Stithians
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Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival Prediction Pool

16 April, 2014 beet 1

Please don’t forget make your KERF predictions! Either click on menu option at the top of the page or the link in the sidebar. Well done to Star who is our weekly winner and KCOB our Grey PE Festival winner.

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KES Festival 2014 Squads

16 April, 2014 beet 0

The extremely popular KES festival squads as they appear in school’s beautiful 84-page festival programme:…

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Pukke Skouspel 2014 Team of the Tournament

16 April, 2014 beet 0

Better late than never. Here is the team of the tournament named after the conclusion of another excellent Pukke Skouspel 2014. Some big boys in there. And a few who are destined to go far in rugby. It would be quite something to watch this team up against against an SA Schools team later this year…

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Fullback showtime at Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival

16 April, 2014 beet 46

I’ve been wanting to write this blog about the four top fullbacks playing at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival for quite a while now. When the inspiration first came to me back in 2013 I thought it was a sure bet. KERF would be the ultimate battleground. The best fullback of the four stood a very good chance of being numero uno in the land in 2014.…

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Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival 2014

13 April, 2014 beet 212

Twelve of the most well-known rugby schools in South African will once again be on display over Easter in KwaZulu-Natal come 2014.

In spite of the school holidays headache caused by Easter not being part of the end of term vacation, the organisers of the seventh annual Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) have done ever so well to attract a top class field yet again.…

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St John’s Easter Rugby Festival 2014

13 April, 2014 beet 66

The well-organised St Johns tournament over Easter will bring together two different tiers of rugby schools. On the one extreme there will be national powerhouses in form of Paarl Boys High, Paul Roos and Waterkloof…

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Match report: Maritzburg College 42 Pretoria Boys High 28

13 April, 2014 beet 38

 This was a super-duper entertain packaged game played on Goldstones in Pietermaritzburg. When 70-points get scored in 70-minutes, there is room for constructive negative comments about defensive structures and tackling, however during this game it really felt like the positives like attacking running lines, strength in contact, individual skills and good handling was more responsible for the high score than defensive lapses.…

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Match log: Grey High 27 Paul Roos 26

13 April, 2014 beet 30

Just when you thought that the UCT win against Pukke would be the comeback of the season, Grey High pulled off a 26-0 turnaround in less than 20 minutes to win this game 27-26 with the winning points coming off the last play of the game. Below is a match journal of the highlights from Paul Roos vs Grey High inter-schools match on 12 April 2014. …

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School Rugby Fixtures & Results – week ending 12/04/2014

12 April, 2014 beet 132
DAY DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL DETAILS
Tue 08/04/14 EG Jansen 48 7 Centurion  Tuks-Reeks
Wed 09/04/14 DHS 33 10 Clifton
Sat 12/04/14 Maritzburg College 42 28 Pretoria BH
Sat 12/04/14 Westville 33 9 DHS
Sat 12/04/14 Northwood 38 5 George Campbell
Sat 12/04/14 Clifton Port Natal  Postponed
Sat 12/04/14 Dale 17 0 Grens
Sat 12/04/14 Despatch  0 66 Framesby
Sat 12/04/14 Langenhoven Gim 26 14 Nico Malan
Sat 12/04/14 Pearson 0 37 St Andrew’s
Sat 12/04/14 Queen’s 11 58 Selborne
Sat 12/04/14 Brandwag (Uitenhage) 22 27 Marlow
Sat 12/04/14 Cambridge 17 15 Hudson Park
Sat 12/04/14 Jeppe 24 8 St Benedict’s
Sat 12/04/14 St David’s 15 13 Parktown
Sat 12/04/14 KES  30 28 St John’s
Sat 12/04/14 Bishops  29 25 Boland Landbou
Sat 12/04/14 Bellville  12 27 Brackenfell
Sat 12/04/14 Oakdale  13 27 Paarl Gim
Sat 12/04/14 Outeniqua  13 18 HJS Paarl BH
Sat 12/04/14 Paul Roos  26 27 Grey HS  Paul Roos led 26-0 during the 2nd half
Sat 12/04/14 Rondebosch  21 59 Wynberg
Sat 12/04/14 SACS  can cel Drostdy SACS has pulled the plug on the HTS Drostdy fixture & it looks like this fixture might be scratched from the WPPL list forever
Sat 12/04/14 Strand 22 23 Durbanville
Sat 12/04/14 Tygerberg 26 21 Stellenberg
Sat 12/04/14 De Kuilen 32 26 Milnerton
Sat 12/04/14 Worcester Gim  17 18 Swartland
Sat 12/04/14 Waterkloof  38 21 Affies
Sat 12/04/14 Menlopark  36 10 Diamantveld
Sat 12/04/14 Grey College  44 27 Louis Botha
Sat 12/04/14 Sentraal (FS)  17 51 Grey College Cherries
Sat 12/04/14 Fichardtpark 21 20 Jim Fouche
Sat 12/04/14 Monument 15 16 HTS Middelburg Tuks-Reeks QF
Sat 12/04/14 Transvalia 17 22 Nelspruit Tuks-Reeks QF
Sat 12/04/14 Garsfontein 41 13 Eldoraigne Tuks-Reeks QF
Sat 12/04/14 EG Jansen 39 0 Kempton Park Tuks-Reeks QF
Sat 12/04/14 Rustenburg  10 62 Centurion Tuks-Reeks 9th Place PO
Sat 12/04/14 Klerksdorp 21 17 Vereeniging Gim Tuks-Reeks 9th Place PO
Sat 12/04/14 Ermelo Florida Tuks-Reeks 9th Place PO
Sat 12/04/14 Marais Viljoen  27 26 Pietersburg Tuks-Reeks 9th Place PO

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Queen’s College unbeaten home record under threat from Selborne

11 April, 2014 beet 8

Queen’s College will host Selborne as part of their Reunion weekend celebrations. Queen’s haven’t lost on their famous ground, “The Rec” since Dale won there in 2011. That’s a long and proud winning streak that the Queenians would love to extend via claiming the scalp of the East London powerhouse.…

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SBR Prediction Pool – 12/04/2014

10 April, 2014 beet 24

Predict the results of the following 12 games taking place this Saturday by clicking on the “SBR Prediction Pools” menu option near the top of this page. Good luck!

Maritzburg College vs PBHS;   Selborne vs Queen’s; Brandwag (Uitenhage) vs Marlow; Paul Roos vs Grey PE; KES vs St Johns; Bishops vs Boland Landbou; Oakdale vs Paarl Gim; Waterkloof vs Affies; Monument vs HTS Middelburg; Transvalia vs Nelspruit; EG Jansen vs Kempton Park; Garsfontein vs Eldoraigne…

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Match feedback: Waterkloof 38 Affies 21

10 April, 2014 beet 73

Compiled with input from Coleen Naude, Waterkloof Media Liaison and Marketing.

It almost feels like an understatement suggesting that the Affies versus Klofies rugby battle attracts a lot of interest. It’s a huge game on the Pretoria and South African school rugby calendar. Once again the proof was in the pudding, the pavilion and the surrounding grounds were packed with spectators for this derby.…

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Squad system in school rugby – right, wrong or other?

10 April, 2014 beet 51

If you switch your telly over to Supersport HD at 14:05 this Saturday, 12 April 2014, you’ll be able to catch one of the top schoolboy rugby matches of the year between hosts Paul Roos and Grey High (PE).  Something you might not know about or even pick during the broadcast is the use of the squad system.…

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Eastern Cape XV of the 1st Term

8 April, 2014 beet 47

Many passionate school rugby followers of the Eastern Cape region were able to attend the Graeme Rugby Day and the Grey High Festival. I asked a handful of these supporters of the wonderful game to come up with their selections for a combined Eastern Province / Border team. Here is the net result of their combined efforts:…

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Tuks-Reeks 2014: results & quarterfinals

8 April, 2014 beet 17

There is a very positive vibe about Noordvaal school rugby going around right now. The 2014 season is still young but recent victories by Noordvaal schools over last season’s Western Cape pace setters, Paarl Gim and Outeniqua has certainly shifted attention to the Highveld where there looks to be plenty of quality on offer.…

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DHS takes on Clifton as part of a challenging week

8 April, 2014 beet 10

Midweek action in KZN sees Durban High School square off against potential banana peel team Clifton College on Wednesday evening at 19h15 on Van Heerden’s field. 3 days later DHS travels up the M13 to play an ever improving Westville.…

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Varsity Cup 2014 : UCT’s amazing comeback win! Unbelievable!

7 April, 2014 beet 33

What a final! UCT looked dead and buried and then some at 33-15 after 73-minutes. Pukke’s machine of a hooker Armand van der Merwe (Duhan’s older boet) looked all set to be the Man of the Match. The fat lady was warming up her vocal cords, the engraver was about to incise the letters “N-W-U” on the cup but then it happened. The dramatic and incredible comeback. UCT scored once, scored twice! Got the score back to 33-31 down with virtually no time left. Then Pukke had the ball game with time up, hooter gone and a deep pass to flyhalf Johnny Welthagen in the pocket. All he had to do was kick the ball into touch, knock it on or kill play somehow but instead he went for the drop goal, got charged down and possession was turned over to the Ikeys students. Huge BMT followed and via some excellent composed handling the Tiger stripes created some space on an inside line and the rest is history. UCT 39 Pukke 33. What a great final!…

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Schoolboy rugby – Size of players

7 April, 2014 Grasshopper 28

By Grasshopper

Many believe that today’s schoolboy players are far larger than 20 years ago. I agree that today due to improved supplements, gym programmes, professional trainers etc that the boys are physically better conditioned and the games have more ‘physicality’ if such a word actually exists. It seems to be all that commentators talk about these days.…

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Western Cape: first big weekend of 2014 season

6 April, 2014 beet 26

Western Cape schoolboy rugby will be at peak activity this Saturday, 12 March. The televised game between Paul Roos and Grey High (PE) will be an option for everyone to watch. However the live game for neutrals to get to must surely be Bishops versus Boland Landbou…

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Bishop’s: their 1992 1st XV with Herschelle Gibbs in it

6 April, 2014 beet 142

SA cricketer Herschelle Gibbs of Bishop’s has often been described as one of the finest SA schoolboy rugby flyhalves of all times. Interestingly when it comes to conversations about outstanding school flyhalves, there are still strong associations made to the performances of SA cricketing greats Peter Kirsten (SACS), Lee Barnard (KES) and Daryll Cullinan (Queen’s). Apart from Gibbs, Maritzburg College flyhalf Udo Goedeke also represented both codes at SA Schools level.…

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SA u20 training squad reduced to 36 players

6 April, 2014 beet 10
From the SARugby.net website
April 04, 2014

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Friday named a reduced SA Under-20 training squad of 36 players for the remainder of the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship (JWC) training camp following two trial matches in Stellenbosch this week.

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