Voortrekker Night Series 2020
This year the very popular Vories Night Series will be a one evening only event in Pietermaritzburg on Friday 28 February 2020.…
AbsaWildeklawer Sports Festival 2020
Potentially cancelled for 2020…
Outeniqua 2020 1st XV looking Dream-Teamish
Anyone remember the outstanding Outeniqua team from 2013?…
Super Rugby – interesting average age stats
Fox Sport Australia published a statistical list of Super Rugby average ages per team on 14 February 2020.…
SA u20 alignment camps 2020
Camp No.3 to start soon.
The alignment camp is the second of four scheduled camps to be hosted at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport, and will run from Monday 10 to Thursday 13 February.…
Barloworld Toyota Menlyn Noord Suid Rugbytoernooi 2020 – Fixtures
Fixture List corrected
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Grey PE Festival 2020
From Grey High:
I am sure this does not come a surprise to anyone, but the Standard Bank Grey Rugby Festival has been cancelled for 2020.
I would like to thank you for the support and I assure you that you will all be invited to next year’s Festival and hopefully we will then have the opportunity to allow you to experience some good East Cape hospitality, partnered with high class schoolboy rugby.…
Media release: Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival 2020
KEARSNEY EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL
In line with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a National State of Disaster last night, the 13th Standard Bank Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival has been cancelled.
Kearsney headmaster Elwyn van den Aardweg said South Africans need to come together to support each other at this hour and adopt a spirit of social responsibility and civic-mindedness to support the national effort and minimise the impacts within the country.
Next year is Kearsney’s centenary and a special edition of the festival is being planned with exciting new teams, Van den Aardweg said. These include a number of schools with which Kearsney has had a long relationship over many decades, to ensure a suitable commemoration of the 100-year milestone with schools that have been traditional friends and rivals.…
My Preseason XV
Which players are on your radar coming into the 2020 schoolboy rugby season?…
Elite Player Development (EPD) u16 & u17 Camps 2019
Camps held from 22-28 September 2019 – a nice guide to some of the players on the SBR radar and who should impress in 2020.…
SA u18 Sevens takes a backseat to the EPD camp
Spare a thought for the SA Sevens organisers. Their best efforts to create something worthwhile for the under-18 national players has instead turned into a bit of a nightmare as a result of the Elite Player Development camp (EPD) being given the green light to take preference over national Sevens players.…
u18 Elite Player Development (EPD) Camp for SA Schools 2020 hopefuls
Many of the leading candidates for this year’s SA Schools (u18) team are likely to be revealed once the list of players invited to attend the elite player development Alignment Camp is made known. The camp is expected to be held at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport (SAS) from 27 February to 01 March 2020. The timing means it is unlikely to clash with any of the planned regular season school rugby fixtures.…
Durbanville official announcement on Director of Rugby
Schoolboy rugby up-and-comer Durbanville has finally made an official announcement about the appointment of Hans Coetzee as their Director of Rugby, …
DHS hone in on cancelling all sports against Glenwood
Latest: confirmed on Thursday 6 February 2020 that DHS has “discontinued” all sport fixtures against Glenwood for the foreseeable future.
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Headmasters in distress
A headmaster’s job is often underrated. Successful schools on the right track and/or improving more often than owe a great deal of that accomplishment to having a really really good headmaster at the helm. …