Youth Week Quota Targets 2019

For those new to the experience, it’s useful information to know that as policy the national youth weeks (u18 Craven Week, Academy Week and Grant Khomo Week)  all have minimum player of colour (POC) selection targets as well as prerequisites for the minimum number of POC that must be on the field at any given time during matches.

 

#	WEEK’S NAME	A/G	PLAYERS	MIN.TARGET	POC ON THE FIELD
				POC	AT ALL TIMES
1	Craven Week	u18	23	12 (was 10 in 2018)	4 (was 4 in 2018)
2	Academy Week	u18	23	12	8
3	Grant Khomo	u16	23	12	8
4	Craven Week	u13	23	11	5
5	Inter-Provincial Sevens	u17	12	4	3
6	Top School Sevens	u18/u15	12	4	3

REPLACEMENTS – High School Youth Weeks

Also note that previously for the representative team’s first match, only injury enforced replacements were permitted.
Tactical substitutions were not allowed.
For the second match all squad players who sat the first match out, had to start and play the entire match.
These restrictions were put in place to ensure that all players in the squad were given at least one full match.
During the second match, tactical substitutions were permitted but only those players in the starting XV who had played the first match could be replaced.
For the third match, replacement strategies