Kynoch Noord-Kaap has made a useful start to the 2015 season with three out of three wins.
- Klerksdorp 33-5
- Lichtenburg 60-7
- Welkom Gim 36-24
For this weekend’s clash the boys from Kimberley will travel 480km to just outside Cradock in the Eastern Cape, where agricultural school Marlow, winners of the Burger Trophy in 2014 will host them. KNK may have to dig deep to keep their 100% record intact.
Kynoch Noord-Kaap team from Welkom Gimnasium match at Fichardtpart Sports Day in Bloemfontein on 07 March 2015.
| NAME | AGE GR | 2014 ACHIEVEMENT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schalk Smit | u19 | |
| 2 | Jahnu Pieterse | u18 | |
| 3 | Stefan Smit | u18 | |
| 4 | Algurnand Heyns | u18 | |
| 5 | Riaan Kotze | u17 | |
| 6 | Duan Steenkamp | u19 | |
| 7 | Thulani Njenje | u19 | |
| 8 | Gerhard Holtzhausen | u19 | Craven Week |
| 9 | Brandon De Melim | u19 | Craven Week |
| 10 | Adams Cleo | u19 | Academy Week |
| 11 | Cameron Hufke | u17 | |
| 12 | Howard Lottering | u18 | |
| 13 | Zayne Farmer | u19 | Academy Week |
| 14 | Gladwin Niewenhuysen | u17 | Academy Week |
| 15 | Wilfred Bowers | u19 | Craven Week |
| 16 | Conrad Van Aswegen | u17 | |
| 17 | Arthur Jones | u19 | |
| 18 | Wynand Bester | u18 | Academy Week |
| 19 | Marnus Ross | u18 | |
| 20 | Willbritte Uys | u18 | |
| 21 | Jose George | u17 | Academy Week |
| 22 | Ewan Marcus | u18 | Academy Week |
| 23 | Tiego Segalwe | u19 |
@Tang: ey there this is Thulani Njenje….I was born in 1996/05/18 in the eastern cape…grade 10 in muir college boys high played 1st team when I was 16 years of age, left to noordkaap 2013 was doing grade 11. ..awesome season I had,best rugby of my life but 2014 picked up an injury against Paarl boys high in Cape Town …was out fron March to august that’s why I didn’t play craven week because other players deserved to be there and get a chance…I had no choice then to but to prove my self in 2015 and my aged allowed me ,so im sure that I’m not thee only under 19 player in the team or maybe I’m such threat on the rugby field that you only discussing about me or its the race I don’t know. ….spread the approval to the others who were not sure about my age ….cheers
@Playa: ok – only seen this article now – cannot believe schools sell their souls like this – what a joke!
@Tang: as a parent I would flatly refuse to let my son run out against these “men”
I reiterate my comment above
Here is an email sent earlier in the day from the same “Apologist”:
Okay guys this isn’t my comment, it’s from an email I received today. It’s a bit offensive and I think those that know me will figure out my IQ isn’t high enough to come up with this sort of thing
“Maybe you should point out to the howling wolves that if a child went to high school in 2010 and failed once in each of the phases (Gr 7-9 and 10-12), for which the department incidentally makes allowance, he could still legitimately be at school in 2015 – and not even be in Gr 12 !
eg 2010 Gr 8 age 14
2011 Gr 9 fail age 15
2012 Gr 9 age 16
2013 Gr 10 age 17
2014 Gr 11 fail age 18
2015 Gr 11 age 19
2016 Gr 12 age 20 !!!!!!!!!!!
I know of a boy at a third-tier school who won’t be playing for the school as he turns 20 this year.
Again, I’m no apologist, but surely these wheels are spinning without the intervention of hamsters !
Of course, if a child played Craven or Academy Week last year, he would have been certified as Under 18 then, so that should alleviate some of the complaints, methinks.”
@Tang: The current Kynoch 1st team is the tip of the iceberg.Win at all cost is despicable.
Either Kry Nog have a post matric or they have a very poor academic pass rate somewhere along the lines.
@Queenian – I know of at least four in the team who are now in their 6th year of high school.
Four of them started high school in 2010 so should have finished last year.
Do Kynoch have a post matric?
If I were the opposition team, I would flatly refuse to play these guys.
Kry Nog is so apt for them.
@Queenian: Interesting…
@beet: @Playa: @Tang: Njenje played Muir 1st team in 2012 and yes he was only in Grade 10 for the second year so he had failed there is know way this boy is still Under 19.
@BuffelsCM: I did not remember too well then, I am corrected!
@Ploegskaar: The Paarl Gim teams are going to Wildeklawer
@Djou: We are always invited, but declined the invite for our age group teams. As far as I remember none of the Winelands schools are sending their age group teams this year.
@Kosie: Funny, but spot on.
@Ploeg: So, why – were they not invited? Or is it because of principle. Must say, weird things are happening at Wildeklawer in terms of the teams invited and those not invited.
@Pinotage: Yes, it was our u16 team that was withdrawn by our coaches and headmaster. You will note that our age group teams are not attending this year…
@QC86: You are absolutely right about what happened at Wildeklawer last year. In fact it was Boland Landbou who refused to play against a team with over- age players. Ploeg can confirm.
In my book it is nothing less than cheating.
@Tang:
@Kosie –
@Tang: Kynoch is only the semantic spelling for “Kry Nog”. So kindly read Kry Nog Noord Kaap!
@Beet – Would love to find out the details of the players moving from Boland to Kynoch. It is little wonder NK need Kynoch as a sponsor, recruiting players who have already played Academy week for another province must be costly.
@Playa – If they have sold the name of the school to Kynoch, then let us call them what they want to be called – Kynoch.
I remember when Boys High played Kynoch at the Saints Festival three years back. The Boys High parents refused to believe they were playing against a school boy team. We were convinced Kynoch had sent their u20’s to the festival.
Wilfred Bowers, Zayne Farmer and Cleo Adams were recruited from Boland. When the recruitment scorecard is finalised, I reckon Kynoch are going to be right at the top of the ugly list.
@Veg: I would have to do the unthinkable and renounce my Old Dalianship
Noord Kaap’s u15’s second game at Wildeklawer last year was called off because of over age players.
@Playa: Have harped on about this but still find it ridiculous.You are going to have to tell people that you went to school at Mr Price Dale College.
According to records, Thulani Njenje played Craven Week for Griquas in 2013. Why didn’t he make the team in 2014? Was he injured or already over age. In fact a few of the u19 players have played two years of Craven Week for Griquas and yet they are still at school.
Dit is nooit maklik in Cradock nie. Vra maar vir Boishaai.
Ek sit my geld op die boere!
@beet: Thanks beet. You have answered what would have been my follow up question
@Playa: He could have played 1st XV as an u16 back then.The SARU age banding rules only kicked in in 2013. Before that U16s could play 1st XV rugby. Marcel Coetzee from Maritzburg College represented their 1st XV over 4 years in that way: 2011 – 2014
@Queenian: Was he playing for the Muir 1st team in 2012?
Unless he was 16 that year
@Playa: Ye I think its more that only under 19 boys were for sale, Rugbyfan is correct Njenje was at Muir in 2012 so, how he could still be the right age I do not know.
I’m more concerned with the sponsor getting naming rights…
As for the under 19s…maybe there’s a whole bunch of December 1996 babies who chose (Kynoch) Noord Kaap as a school of choice
Jeez KNK aren’t too serious about academics with all those u19’s in the team
The No 7 Njenje was at Muir College played first team for them 2012 if I was Noord Kaap I would check the boys ages when you have a team which has 13/14 Under 19’s in something is not right.
13 u19 players? Didnt think one would see that in today’s SBR.