Age-group rugby scrumming laws to be discussed
A bit long-winded but here is an excerpt from one of the resolutions for discussion at the 3 December SARU meeting. …
IRB Rugby Trials & Law Amendments 2012 – what’s the verdict
Well anyone who has followed the end of year Northern Hemisphere tour test matches has by now had a chance to see most of the new IRB stuff coming into play at some stage. During the Currie Cup in South Africa we had a taste of the extra TMO involvement and concussion bin. The big one on tour was always going to be the new scrum engage requirement. Let’s face it scrums this November have generally not been that pretty a sight…
Sergeal Petersen in the Kings Superugby squad
Sergeal Petersen, the 18-year-old Grey High and SA Schools wing has been named in the Southern Kings Superugby extended squad.…
The best 5 SA school coaches includes 3 rugby mentors
In the December issue of SA Sports Illustrated magazine coaches Sakkie van der Walt of Affies, Grant Griffy Griffiths of Dale and Barend Steyn of Kearsney are named along with a soccer and a cricket coach as the Five Best School Coaches in South Africa…
Beeldtrofee 2013: Is EG Jansen leaving the Macro Schools competition?
The Beeldtrofee is divided into four school divisions competitions that play matches at under-14, under-15, under-16 and first XV levels. The four divisions are Small Schools, Medium Schools, Big Schools and Macro Schools. The Macro Schools competition sees many of the well-known for rugby Afrikaans high schools situated north of the Vaal River battle it out in a knockout style format with the winners of each age-group claiming a Beeld trophy.…
Westville Rugby 2013
Griffon has put together this potential squad for the 2013 season:…
DHS Rugby 2013
Horsefly No.1 has put together a potential squad for the 2013 season.…
SuperBru EOYT – weekend 3
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Appeal to all Craven Week players 1964-2012
The 50th Craven Week will take place in Polokwane starting 13 July 2013. Hannes from School of Rugby is looking for details of any player who has played in the High School CW over the past 50 years.
Please contact this email address: hannes@schoolofrugby.co.za…
Glenwood Rugby 2013
Glenwood old boy Grasshopper has listed a potential 1st XV squad for 2013.…
5 schoolboys named in Bulls SupeRugby training group
If you live in Pretoria you’d better look for your name on this list below. It seems like the Bulls have named everyone that resides in the greater Tshwane district in their wider training group for SupeRugby 2013.…
Maritzburg College 150th Festival fixtures
Maritzburg College is the oldest high school in KwaZulu-Natal and one of the oldest schools in South Africa. In 2013 the school turns 150 years old. An Easter rugby festival featuring well recognised rugby schools has been arranged as part of the 150th celebrations. …
Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) 2013 fixtures
Kearsney’s sixth annual Easter rugby festival (KERF) will take place from Thursday 28 March to Monday 01 April 2013 on Botha’s Hill. The organisers have once again managed to assemble a top quality field including Grey College (Bloemfontein), Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos (Stellenbosch) who are regarded as three of the all-time best rugby schools in South Africa. In 2013 Boland Landbou (near Paarl), Framesby (Port Elizabeth) and Outeniqua (George) will make their debuts.…
Baby Bok u20 squad for 2nd training camp
Baby Boks head coach Dawie Theron has named a trimmed down squad of 38 players to attend his second SA under-20 trials and training camp in Stellenbosch from 2-9 December.…
School athletes suspended for taking drugs
According to a Sunday Times news report, King Edward VII School has banned three of its athletes from all sports activities after they confessed to using performance enhancing drugs. …
How many schoolboys will go on to become Springboks?
Okay this is my new favourite example and is handy for anyone who wants to keep things simple. A bit of what I call FYUI – for your useless information.
We have about 100 or so top rugby schools in South Africa. Working on the assumption that two-thirds of the First XV are matrics and one-third grade-11 or lower, that gives 1000 players graduating high school every year. How many of those make it to play for the Boks one day?…
Springbok test record: 1992 – 2012
This exercise below covers the Springbok rugby period from world rugby readmission in 1992 until present day. It started out as an attempt to work out the number of schoolboys in any given year that would go on be capped at Springbok level, based on historical data.…
C’mon Ref!
Supporting one’s rugby team is a pastime filled emotion when done right. These outbursts are sometimes triggered by decisions made by the man in the middle. …
Queens College coach resigns
John Duncan, the head coach of the Queens College 1st XV from the time he arrived at the school in 2010, has resigned.…
SuperBru EOYT – weekend 2
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Bye-bye dual sportsman: Jean-Luc du Plessis
Boland has named it’s Coca-Cola Khaya Majola under-19 Cricket Week team. Missing is the name of Boishaai all-rounder Jean-Luc du Plessis, a fast left arm bowler and top order batsman. …
School water polo : FINA u18 youth championships
Despite being a very popular South African school sport particularly amongst rugby players, water polo still lives in the shadows of more traditional national sports…
Over-aged KZN school player resurfaces in provincial sevens
On 03 November 2012 the Sharks team defeated Eastern Province Kings 29-14 in the SARU national sevens final for and I stress here for mens teams. A member of the impressive EP team was none other than one Mbembe Payi. Payi was a student at DHS earlier this year…
Overzealous parents & sport bursaries/scholarships
There is a lot said on these pages about schools who “buy” players – how about those parents who “sell” their kids – Cyndi
Your comments:-…
Theron’s first u20 trial – players that impressed
A squad of 50 Junior World Championship hopefuls was put through their paces during a trial match in front of head coach Dawie Theron and his assistant yesterday.…
Rugby staff changes for Monnas, Paul Roos & Dale
This year well established traditional rugby schools Monument, Paul Roos Gymnasium and Dale College bid farewell to leading figures in their rugby programmes.…
2013 Baby Boks will be in the JWC pool of death
The pools for the Junior World Championships (JWC) has been announced. The same irritating format which sees teams divided into 3 pools, with only the winners of each pool and only the single best second placed pool team overall advancing to the semi-finals, stays in place.…
Star-studded field gathers for SuperBru
Many of SA’s current crop of SBR heavyweight bloggers (I’m proclaiming it) have signed on for the very challenging yet lighthearted SuperBru End of Year Tour compo. …
DHS & Glenwood meet to discuss rugby player
Information from a reliable source indicates that a meeting took earlier today (Tuesday 06 November) between the Glenwood and DHS heads. This was at the latter’s request. The meeting was to discuss the move of a prominent Grade 11 First XV rugby player from DHS to Glenwood.…
School Rugby Festivals 2013
There are going to be some outstanding first team school rugby festivals taking place around the country between late March and early May 2013.…
SA u20 Trials squad named
Dawie Theron has named a squad of 50 under-20 players to attend trials and a training camp in Stellenbosch from 9-12 November 2012. …
Garsfontein: 7s School Champions for 2012
Hosts Garsfontein beat 2010 and 2011 champions Tygerberg 43-28 in the high scoring cup final to claim the @lantic 7s Champion of Champions title for 2012. It was Garsies third @lantic tournament win of the year. They had participated in 2 out of the 16 @lantic regional tournaments and won both (Pretoria and Kempton Park), to qualify for the Champion of Champions main event.…
130+ days of Raymond Rhule
On 06 November 2012 Raymond Rhule will be 20 years old. Just a little over 130 days ago, 98 maybe 99 out of every 100 South African rugby fans would have been clueless if asked who Raymond Rhule was. He has since redefined the term ‘overnight success’. …
Grey College: a rugby factory or importer – what’s your opinion?
I wanted to throw this one out there for some rational mature feedback because it became a bit of a debate between a few members on my Whatsapp rugby group, starting last night and continuing this morning. It initially revolved around Jan Serfontein, who added the under-20 Player of the Year to his list of rugby awards at the SARU event yesterday. …
SA Schools Cricket rankings
The website www.saschoolsports.co.za bravely compiles an SA schools cricket ranking on a regular basis nowadays. Hats off to them for making the effort. It’s a huge undertaking considering that school cricket is being played in at least 3 different formats and at all times of the week. …
Sergeal Petersen wins Craven Week Player of the Tournament 2012 award
SA Schools wing Sergeal Petersen of Grey High School in Port Elizabeth is the Craven Week Player of the Tournament for 2012. Petersen was the best player in the unbeaten Eastern Province under-18 team at Craven Week this year.…
@lantic 7’s Champions Tournament 2012
16 schools will compete to be crowned the @Lantic Schools 7’s champions of 2012. The tournament takes place on 02 / 03 November and is hosted by Garsfontein in Pretoria. Supersport 1 will broadcast the match day 2 games including the final live from 13h00 on Saturday, 03 November.…
Schoolboy Rugby Player of 2012???
It’s rugby awards season in South Africa. Nominees have been made known and various player, coach and team of the year prizes will be handed out on Thursday 01 November 2012 in Cape Town. What isn’t clear is who the schoolboy rugby player of 2012 will be. …