So with the rain and poor weather in the EP resulting in several local fixtures being cancelled, I was told how valuable the rainwater would be for the fields in Kariega (Uitenhage) at this time of the year. Even though the three well-known schools from the area are fairly close together, Muir College apparently dug a bore hole a while back and struck water, while Daniel Pienaar did same and did not. Brandwag don’t seem to have chanced their luck yet. Anyways while looking at the locations of the three schools, I could not help but notice how huge the field at Muir is. It measures 476m using the Google Earth tape measure. It’s the kind of space most schools only dream of having. I was wondering if anyone know of a school that had one continuous field that could compete in size with this one.
@Die Ken: dis groot
@Smallies: As ek reg onthou kon die Malan grond-reghoek, 6 rugbyvelde vat, en in Somertyd, 3 krieketvelde
@Die Ken: Hulle het elke jaar n groot dag aand atletiek byeenkoms daar gehad in die 80,s ek onthou daai baan goed…
@beet: Go and check out Dr Malan as well
@tzavosky: As ek my Kovsies kleure eksamen antwoorde reg onthou dan het Grey die grond waarop die huidige Bloem kampus staan ook geskenk …
Some Impressive schools and their facilities , if you go back to tbe 80s ad 90S and check out schools form various towns Like Estcourt, Dundee , Mooi River ( Weston Agric College) had awesome and sporting facilities. Look at the Durban schools , like GW, DHS, NWood they have maximized their limited space and have great facilities, schools like MC, St Charles in PMB are luckier and vast space of sorts facilities.
@tzavosky: Ons wat in Engels gevry het was baie gelukkig met die skuif. As mens nog bietjie handjies wou vas hou na die Oranje fliek moes jy jou lyf Lance Armstrong hou om betyds terug te wees.
Die grond was nooit ontwikkel nie so dit was seker ‘n maklike besluit om dit te laat gaan.
@Smallies: Ah yes, it is a good ground but I think there are others that might trump it….Michaelhouse, Hilton, Bishops etc…
@beet: And that is not the only one, over 30 schools here that would make St Johns look new. Stowe have 27 tennis courts! Bedford School, Tonbridge, Millfield, Rugby School, Haberdashers Aske, Whitgift, Radley College, Epsom, Wellington, Millfield, Dulwich, Oakham, Oundle, Sevenoaks, Barnard Castle, Sedbergh, Cranleigh, Chelternham, Haileybury etc etc
Check out Clifton College; https://www.cliftoncollege.com/the-schools/preparatory-school/co-curricular/rugby/
And Rugby School: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g504202-d4228086-Reviews-Rugby_School_Shop_Tours-Rugby_Warwickshire_England.html
@Rainier: Oranje Meisies was seker nie gelukkig met daai skuif nie?!
Maar ek was in 2016 vir ‘n week by Eunice gewees toe my dogter aan ‘n hokkie ITP daar deelgeneem het, en onthou dat hulle baie spasie om die hokkievelde het. GCB se kampus moes massief gewees het voor die Eunice skuif.
@Smallies: Dis reg ja. Ek was daar toe die tuckshop geskuif het na langs die parade grond toe. Sal miskien Saterdag ‘m vla skyf en Mountain Dew moet gaan koop.
@Grasshopper: let me refrase in my personal opinion…
@Rainier: dit was ,die tuckshop het op daardie deel van die kampus gestaan…dit is later geskuif toe Unice daarheen geskuif het.Daar was n stuk op hulle website gewees oor dit toe die tuckshop binne gerevamp is in 2017
@tzavosky: Ja, Eunice was oorspronklik in die middestad gewees voor die skool in die 80’s geskuif het langs GCB toe. Ek mag verkeerd wees maar is redelik seker die grond was oorspronklik deel van GCB gewees.
@Grasshopper: Wow for anyone who thought that St John’s College or one of the W/Cape schools with the mountains in the background was picturesque, that sight of Stowe buildings from the rugby field is something else. Truly special.
@Rainier: Verstaan ek reg, was GCB en Eunice voorheen een kampus?
Now this is cooking with gas, near my place and where I would send the lighty if I could afford it; https://www.stowe.co.uk/school/sport/sporting-facilities
@Smallies: Whooooa, that is a big claim that…..
@beet: I can remember they had huge sporting grounds thats why i had a look at them….
@Smallies: Wow. To run around the perimeter of the field at Die Anker is about 1350m.
@beet: Die Anker 407m
@Rainier: Drie skole langs mekaar ,vier as jy Baby Grey by tel
@beet: The primary school fields is huge
@beet: GCB had enough space for Eunice to move next door and is still big enough to accommodate all the sports comfortably.
@Palma: that five or six blocks have some of the best sporting facilities in the country,the Rec proparbly has the best highschool pavilion in the country….no contest
Yeah agreed Queen’s has pretty impressive lineup of sports fields but they are not really one field split into parts, they are numerous fields at different levels
I saw Noordheuwel field now split into parts is about 260m long
Hilton College between their cricket oval and the last pitch was probably one field at a stage in the past is 500m end to end.
Many years back there was a high school in Durban named Mansfield. That school had a huge field
@Rainier: Queens have a magnificant campus.
Queens College grounds are massive.
@Grasshopper: yes Grey has but they are scattered throughout the campus…
Looks about 6 rugby fields next to each other, for a small school by numbers that is big. Obviously Kearsney, Michaelhouse & Hilton have huge campuses too. Grey Bloem must have 6 fields too. City schools over 100 years old have been surrounded & have limited space eg DHS & Glenwood, max 3 fields each. Some campuses here in the UK are massive, one even with its own golf course!
Have a look at Queens college primary….also the Hangklip sportsgrounds in Qtown