Muir College in Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth is hosting this year’s Traditional Schools Headmaster’s Annual Conference. 23 headmasters are attending. The conference started on Wednesday, 27 August 2014.
As if you haven’t heard enough of it on this blog, the agenda for Friday’s session is the poaching of school sports players by other schools and this has being put forward by Sammy Gunn of Selborne.
Some of the issues that Sammy Gunn will be addressing are:
1. Finalising the School Sports Charter for schools which was tabled at last year’s meeting (http://blog.schoolboyrugby.co.za/?p=6905)
2. Agreeing on what sanction should be given to schools not adhering to the charter.
3. Raising concerns of what provincial rugby agents were up to.
4. Determining the acceptable cutoff age for players to transfer from one high school to another (under abnormal circumstances).
5. Stimulating discussion surrounding private schools bursaries given to boys.
6. Determining what controls could be put in place at rugby weeks and tournaments such as Easter rugby festivals.
Prior to the conference Mr Gunn was very vocal on the issue of boys and parents being misled by agents and how certain schools agree in principle to act in appropriate manner with regards to recruitment but do not back that up by putting their words into practice.
Hopefully I’ll be able to keep you posted on the discussions and outcomes.
@beet
http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/school-rugby-stop-the-money-rot-1.1742553#.VABXaPnoTS4
@beet: Let the games begin.
@beet: No surprise, TH thinks Westville is private…
Update to the blog:
Some of the issues that Sammy Gunn will be addressing are:
1. Finalising the School Sports Charter for schools which was tabled at last year’s meeting (http://blog.schoolboyrugby.co.za/?p=6905)
2. Agreeing on what sanction should be given to schools not adhering to the charter.
3. Raising concerns of what provincial rugby agents were up to.
4. Determining the acceptable cutoff age for players to transfer from one high school to another (under abnormal circumstances).
5. Stimulating discussion surrounding private schools bursaries given to boys.
6. Determining what controls could be put in place at rugby weeks and tournaments such as Easter rugby festivals.
Prior to the conference Mr Gunn was very vocal on the issue of boys and parents being misled by agents and how certain schools agree in principle to act in appropriate manner with regards to recruitment but do not back that up by putting their words into practice.
@Gungets Tuft: Very applicable – Russian mercenaries and Rugby huursoldate
@Vin: It’s only more important if the Ruskies imported mercenaries from Georgie …
@beet: He’s done his blood pressure a great service.
@kosie:
@rugbyfan: He must do us all a favour and go in there with a dictaphone
@Redblack White: Sorry I didn’t get to read that article. Hopefully someone sends it to me.
@Playa: @Roger: My source says only 23 schools are attending this year.
Westville not there. TH opted out
@Playa: And after all is said and done Affies will say: “Ek verstaan nie. Ons is mos almal dieselfde”
@rugbyfan: Maybe a bit more important than this – looks like Russia has invaded Ukraine.
@Playa: This should be a interesting setup I hope somebody supplied boxing gloves. As far as I know Queenian is involved in this conference some how he lives in Uitenhage maybe I will give him a call.
@Gungets Tuft: Ye I think old Lovatt likes giving out klapper I am sure that was the reason for the sudden departure from Queens.
@GreenBlooded: Look out for the Heads from KES, Jeppe, PBHS, Northwood, College – they will be the ones with frostbite from the Ice Bucket challenge that ou David Lovatt set for them. Kershaw will be the one with the neck brace after Ducasse klapped him with a whole iceberg, left out the water
@Roger: TH is definitely not safe. Sammy Gunn expressed publicly of his disgust after the Hudson boys ‘scandal’. No doubt that this will be brought up on behalf of HP by those present.
A podcast of this conference would be so sweeeeet!
@GreenBlooded: Hahahaha! If only I wasn’t 740km away. I would certainly break my code of not drinking alone at a public establishment for that scene
old Dave Lovett and his SACS counterpart might be squaring up to – although I believe this has been resolved …….
although I notice Hudson Park not there so TH might sit quietly in the corner and enjoy seeing TK squirm
jeeeesh – old TK and TH better have their I’s dotted and T’s crossed, the Border schools are going to lay into them – would love to be a fly on the wall.
Beet – cant we smuggle a recording device in?
@Playa: I’m sure there are a few pubs around Uitenhage? Go and hang out in a few of them around lunchtime – you might see a few headmasters sitting alone at the bar with a few doubles lined up………..
@Knight_CHS07: Ja, it’s a boys’ schools headmasters conference.
@Redblack White: I wish I could be a fly on the wall there.
Friday could be quite an uncomfortable session then .
@Beet : did you see the article in yesterday’s Mercury regarding the Hilton/ GW saga – quite scathing and accompanied by a letter from a headmaster of a school in his private capacity…….
Still not the last we’ll hear of this one.
@Vin: Thanks Vin.
@Beet: Is this annual conference for “Traditional” boys only schools?
@Knight_CHS07: My guess:
1 Dale
2 Queens
3 Selborne
4 Affies
5 Pretoria BH
6 Grey High
7 Muir
8 Graeme
9 Grey College
10 Kimberley
11 DHS
12 Glenwood
13 Maritzburg College
14 Northwood
15 Pinetown
16 Westville
17 Jeppe
18 KES
19 Parktown
20 HJS Paarl BH
21 Paul Roos
22 Rondebosch
23 SACS
24 Wynberg
Sounds interesting…please keep us posted.
I’d love to know the answer to Grasshopper’s question as well
Do you know what schools are attending?