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School Rugby fixtures & results – week ending 05 March 2016

3 March, 2016 beet 93
TIME DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL EVENT
Wed.24Feb Diamantveld 10 3 Jim Fouche
Sat.27Feb Louis Botha 8 23 Welkom Gim
Sat.27Feb Goudveld 31 17 Landboudal
Sat.27Feb Noord-Kaap 22 19 Klerksdorp
Sat.27Feb Jim Fouche 44 8 Witteberg
Sat.27Feb HTS Middelburg 17 0 Transvalia
Sat.27Feb HTS Middelburg 17 0 Transvalia
Sat.27Feb Drostdy 17 10 Champagnat (Arg)
Mon.29Feb Pionier 8 16 Kearsney
Wed.02Mar Sarel Cilliers 14 25 Kearsney
15:55 Sat.05Mar Port Natal 15 18 George Campbell @ Kings Park
13:50 Sat.05Mar Queen’s 23 7 Hudson Park Border Rugby Day
15:00 Sat.05Mar Dale 40 0 Port Rex Border Rugby Day
16:10 Sat.05Mar Selborne 19 10 Grens Border Rugby Day
12:40 Sat.05Mar Cambridge 29 0 Maria Louw Border Rugby Day
Sat.05Mar Framesby 44 0 Oudtshoorn Gill Festival : 25min/half
08:00 Sat.05Mar Hentie Cilliers 5 23 Kalahari Fichardtpark S/D
09:10 Sat.05Mar Diamantveld 61 5 Goudveld Fichardtpark S/D
10:20 Sat.05Mar AHS Kroonstad 13 20 Upington Fichardtpark S/D
11:30 Sat.05Mar Welkom Gim 32 5 Noord-Kaap Fichardtpark S/D
12:40 Sat.05Mar Louis Botha 55 0 Witteberg Fichardtpark S/D
13:50 Sat.05Mar Jim Fouche 19 17 Duineveld Fichardtpark S/D
15:00 Sat.05Mar Sentraal 13 25 Marlow Fichardtpark S/D
16:10 Sat.05Mar Fichardtpark 46 7 Landboudal Fichardtpark S/D
Sat.05Mar Nelspruit X X Waterkloof Practice Match N24-17W
Sat.05Mar Hugenote (Springs) 16 23 Wonderboom PUK Prestige Reeks
Sat.05Mar Middelburg 44 17 Wesvalia PUK Prestige Reeks
Sat.05Mar Potch Volkskool 24 15 Oosterlig Pukke Prestige
Sat.05Mar Kempton Park 22 17 Transvalia Tuks Reeks
Sat.05Mar Menlopark 17 56 Garsfontein Tuks Reeks
Sat.05Mar Marais Viljoen 17 66 EG Jansen Tuks Reeks
Sat.05Mar Pietersburg 26 29 Rustenburg Tuks Reeks
Sat.05Mar HTS Middelburg 33 8 Klerksdorp Tuks Reeks
Sat.05Mar Linden 18 7 Hans Moore
Sat.05Mar Centurion 8 42 Lichtenburg
Sat.05Mar Eldoraigne 7 21 Helpmekaar
Sat.05Mar Oos-Moot 5 10 Montana
Sat.05Mar Ben Vorster 57 0 Jeugland
Sat.05Mar Volkskool Heidelberg 28 22 Hougenhout
Sat.05Mar Die Anker 27 24 Driehoek
Sat.05Mar Outeniqua 69 5 Tygerberg
Sat.05Mar Vereeniging Gim 43 0 Potch Gim
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Blue Bulls school rugby evening at Loftus – fixtures

2 March, 2016 beet 106

The Blue Bulls will be hosting a rugby evening on Thursday 03 March 2016. Participating schools will be allowed to use 26 players on rotation in 25-min per half matches with no place kicking allowed.
15h00 Merensky 20-20 Pretoria THS
16h00 Montana 10-05 Oos-Moot
17h00 Ben Vorster 30-10 Potch Gim
18h00 EG Jansen 45-00 Tuks Invitational
19h00 Jeppe 50-10 Zwartkop
20h00 Monument 15-10 Diamantveld
21h00 Welkom Gim 25-15 Waterkloof

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2016 schoolboy rugby season: schools tipped for the top

21 February, 2016 beet 136

Affies may just be the team to beat in 2016. With there are handful of seriously talented rival teams to consider and lots of competitive matches lying ahead, it’s by no means a sure bet that the Pretoria Witbulle will come out on top, nevertheless there is just too much quality at their disposal to deny them the tag of early favourites to finish at number one.…

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Port Natal Night Series 2016 – fixtures

3 February, 2016 beet 13

After the fantastic high of the 2015 tournament which featured DHS and produced a number of memorable games including a nail-biting finish to the final between after the final hooter winners Glenwood and Westville, the Port Natal Night Series 2016 sponsored by Kenfield Tyres has been characterised by the withdrawal of all three KZN Tier-1 rugby teams’ 1st XV squads. …

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Rugby Skillset App available

1 February, 2016 beet 3

MatchDay-Android-4A user-friendly tool to help school teams generate pro stats using just an ANDROID smartphone or a tablet is now available. …

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Accredited agent vs talent scout

25 January, 2016 beet 0

In the wake of the Parktown/KES matter where two talented rugby players who are both younger than 18 moved between the schools, with Parktown using the word “agent” in their own letter describing on how events unfolded, it called into question whether or not the players could be represented by a rugby agent given their respective ages.…

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Opportunity for Hilton to add to their rugby coaching structure

24 January, 2016 beet 0

Hilton are already in the fortunate position of being able to afford both Brad Macleod-Henderson and Greg Miller to oversee their rugby. Recently it was confirmed that Shane Gaffney, their existing Director of Sports and Director of Coaching Cricket had been announced as the St Dominic’s College Welkom Headmaster with effect from the 2nd term of 2016.…

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Parktown disagreement with KES

21 January, 2016 beet 224

Included: letter from Parktown detailing their views as well as a letter issued by KES to their own community prior to the Parktown letter

Parktown has withdrawn (suspended) sporting fixtures against KES in the interim. The two schools are busy talking about this so there are chances that the Parktown issues will be resolved. Two ex-Parktown boys were amongst a group of 20 odd boys (some from state schools, some from independent both boys and co-ed schools) who enrolled from grade 9 -11 at KES this year and are the cause of Parktown’s decision.…

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2016 : a chance for Schools Sevens to step out of the shadows

19 January, 2016 beet 1

2016 is an Olympic year. For the first time Sevens will be on the roster. This will significantly boost the profile of the sport around the world as well as in our own backyard. On top of that South Africa who have struggled to win medals of any kind at the Olympics, have a very good chance of standing on the medal-winners podium …

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MasterCoach Conference 2016

19 January, 2016 beet 0

MastercoachMASTERCOACH 2016 :

 After the unprecedented success of the Mastercoach Rugby conference in 2014 and 2015, the organisers are excited to introduce their popular and practical oriented rugby conference for 2016 . Their rugby specialists promise to be of a high quality once again and will share their knowledge and experience of the international stage. The conference is on from 26-27 February 2016.
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Matric exams 2015 analysis of 15 high schools

12 January, 2016 beet 125

Thank you to well-known blogger Grasshopper who done the time consuming research on the matric results of:

KZN: Glenwood, DHS, Northwood, Maritzburg College, Westville Boys’, Westville Girls
Gauteng: KES, Jeppe, Pretoria Boys High, Jeppe
Free State: Grey College
Eastern Cape: Grey High
Western Cape: Rondebosch, SACS, Paul Roos

and produced this detailed and very interesting table below:

Please note stats taken from EWN website data.
(Click on table to enlarge)
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Bulls u19 – 50 contracted players for 2016

10 January, 2016 beet 25

When it comes to announcing the newest members of their rugby fraternity it’s unusual for the Bulls to be slow out of the starting blocks. This time around for whatever reasons, the Bulls have delayed their squad release, even though the last of the kids born in 1997 is over the SARU stipulated minimum contracting age of 18.…

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Matric results 2015

6 January, 2016 beet 54

The national matric pass rate has dropped from 75.8% in 2014 to 70.7% in 2015.

The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate.…

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No hijacking of Kingswood vs Grey PE warm-up match

6 January, 2016 beet 22

A chance for the small Grahamstown private school Kingswood to pull off a David versus Goliath outcome against regional giants Grey High on Friday, 18 March – first term break up day for government schools in SA* – has been taken off the cards and spectators will not have the opportunity to redefine it as a proper match.…

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Foothold for College while Westville loses ground

4 January, 2016 beet 1

Maritzburg College has made great strides forward judging by the make-up of the new KwaZulu-Natal High Schools Rugby Association Executive Board, KZN under-18 selectors and under-18 coaches panels. This while fellow KZN rugby powerhouse Westville Boys’ High appears to have taken a step backwards in as far as their influence in the decision-making process is concerned.…

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Centurion & Eldoraigne kill two birds with one stone

4 January, 2016 beet 0

A smart joint decision has been made by Centurion and Eldoraigne. They have agreed to have their Tuks Reeks match in March double as a Beeld Bulls Macro B-league encounter. As a result the two Pretoria Co-eds avoid having to play each other twice via scheduled matches. There is however no guarantee that they won’t meet during the knockout phase of either cup competition. …

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2 Grant Khomo under-16 teams for hosts WP

9 December, 2015 beet 1

It’s an overworked complaint on the blog but does it ever get old? No it doesn’t! It’s just logical that given the depth of schoolboy rugby talent existing in their region, Western Province should have two representative teams at each and every one of the July school holiday provincial youth weeks. The 2016 Grant Khomo Week takes place at Paarl Gymnasium and two WP teams will be participating. With the 50:50 quota seemingly having the least impact on the overall standard of play of teams along the Cape coastal belt , the next question is what are the chances of an all-WP final at Grant Khomo Week 2016? Here are the Day 1 fixtures:

FIELD SCHOOL SCHOOL
A Blue Bulls Limpopo
A KwaZulu-Natal Pumas
A Western Province XV Griffons
A Golden Lions Free State
A Western Province Boland
B Zimbabwe Border CD
B Valke Griquas CD
B SWD Namibia
B Border Leopards
B Eastern Province Griquas
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Kennedy Tsimba to head up St Alban’s rugby

8 December, 2015 beet 0

Former Zimbabwean test player Kennedy Tsimba who really made a name for himself in South Africa as a creative flyhalf wearing the colours of Free State, has been appointed to the position of Director of Rugby here at St Alban’s College, with effect from 1 January 2016.…

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Grey High Rugby Festival 2016

8 December, 2015 beet 1
FIELD TEAM DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Windhoek Gym Ithembelihle
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Muir Hudson Park
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Framesby St Alban’s
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Dale St David’s
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Daniel Pienaar Graeme
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Queen’s Pearson
Philip 1st XV Sat.30Apr Grey HS Parktown
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May St Alban’s Muir
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May St David’s Ithembelihle
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May Graeme Dale
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May Daniel Pienaar Hudson Park
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May Parktown Pearson
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May Grey HS Windhoek Gym
Philip 1st XV Mon.02May Framesby Queen’s

Lower Age-Group fixtures below…