Grant Khomo 2013: KZN final trials
KZN’s final trials for the under-16 Grant Khomo week takes place on 21 May 2013 at the Woodburn Stadium in Pietermaritzburg.…
Craven Week 2013: KZN final trial teams
The provisional final trial teams are out. 3 trial matches will be played at Pietermaritzburg’s Woodburn Stadium on Tuesday 21 May 2013. From the trials, 3 teams of 22 players each will be chosen: a Craven Week team, an Academy Week team and the Country Districts (CD) team. …
Craven Week 2013: South Western District team
The South Western Districts under-18 team will go to Craven Week this year with a genuine chance of doing well and perhaps even featuring in the main game on the final day. SWD won the unofficial Craven Week final back in 2008 when outstanding no.8 CJ Stander of Oakdale was at the helm.…
The other ranking systems at 13 May 2013
As mentioned before, doing this without a formula is now extremely difficult. Ranking the Noordvaal teams on their own is tricky. Between Affies, HTS, Garsies, Jansies, Nellies its really still anyone’s guess who the best team in the Noordvaal is at the moment. …
BHP Top 50 – week ending 11 May 2013
This ranking system is based on a formula which has been in use since 2009.…
KZN u16 & u18 trials schedule for 2013
The KwaZulu-Natal under-18 and under-16 selection schedule for 2013. The aim being to provide an opportunity for all the high schools’ top rugby players to participate in trials.…
KZN Schools u16 & u18 Committee & Selectors 2013
The KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union High School structure for 2013…
Paul Roos vs Paarl Gim
Paul Roos is a much improved team from the one that started the season. They however have a mountain to climb if they are to beat SA’s best schoolboy rugby team Paarl Gim today in the next installment of the Premier Interschools live coverage rugby.…
Results for 11 May 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
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| Grey College | 31 | 37 | Affies | On TV. One of the biggest games of any given season | |
| HTS Middelburg | 19 | 14 | Nelspruit | NuPower Final | |
| Centurion | 14 | 23 | Kempton Park | NuPower – 3rd place playoff | |
| Garsfontein | 36 | 36 | EG Jansen | NuPower – 5th place playoff | |
| Monnas | 67 | 22 | Ermelo | NuPower – 7th place playoff | |
| Florida | 25 | 34 | Transvalia | NuPower – 9th place playoff | |
| Rustenburg | 22 | 33 | Vereeniging Gim | NuPower – 11th place playoff | |
| Eldoraigne | 20 | 17 | Klerksdorp | NuPower – 13th place playoff | |
| Marias Viljoen | 20 | 20 | Pietersburg | NuPower – 15th place playoff | |
| Jeppe | 36 | 6 | John Vorster | Midweek game | |
| KES | 12 | 15 | Jeppe | ||
| Noord-Kaap | 34 | 30 | Waterkloof | ||
| St Stithians | 0 | 76 | Pretoria BH | ||
| St Andrews (FS) | 25 | 38 | St Johns | ||
| Parktown | 26 | 28 | St Benedicts | ||
| M. College | 23 | 9 | Michaelhouse | ||
| Glenwood | 21 | 9 | Hilton | Only 1st-4th XV & A-team games still on | |
| Westville | – | – | Kearsney | CANCELLED – waterlogged field |
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| DHS | – | – | Northwood | CANCELLED – waterlogged field |
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| George Campbell | 18 | 3 | Voortrekker | ||
| Sarel Cilliers | 39 | 3 | Ferrum | ||
| St Charles | 16 | 37 | St Albans | Gauteng now 6-3 up against KZN in the Grogper Cup | |
| Otto du Plessis | 10 | 46 | Framesby | ||
| Grey HS | 20 | 13 | Queens | ||
| St Andrews | 59 | 10 | Cambridge | ||
| Dale | 36 | 0 | Port Rex | ||
| Newton | 5 | 61 | Nico Malan | ||
| Die Brandwag | 51 | 14 | Kingswood | ||
| Paul Roos | 15 | 24 | Paarl Gim | Game on TV | |
| Paarl BH | 55 | 27 | Wynberg | ||
| Bishops | 5 | 22 | SACS | ||
| Boland Landbou | 25 | 28 | Stellenberg | ||
| Durbanville | 20 | 18 | Tygerberg | ||
| Hugenote | 46 | 16 | Worcester Gym | ||
| Strand | 12 | 29 | Drostdy |
Grant Khomo Week 2013: KZN under-16 regional trial teams
The 8 teams to take part in trials at Woodburn Stadium in Pietermaritzburg next Tuesday.…
Craven Week 2013: KZN under-18 regional trial teams
The 10 teams to take part in trials at the Woodburn Stadium in Pietermaritzburg next Tuesday.…
Bulls u18 teams for trials against Lions
The Bulls have named two under-18 teams to take on their Lions counterparts next Tuesday at Loftus, as part of selection process and preparations for the Craven Week and Academy Weeks for 2013. Of the 30 starters selected 14 have Bulls under-18 representation experience brought forward from 2012. …
What the other ranking systems are saying
This is going to be a defining weekend for the ranking systems with Grey College playing Affies, HTS Middelburg up against Nelspruit and EG Jansen vs Garsfontein. That should have been 6 out of everyone’s Top 10 in action but somehow HTS Middelburg only holds down position 12 in SASchoolSports’ rankings. …
High quality player radar: Grey College vs Affies
Grey College against Affies is one of the must watch games if the opportunity presents itself and it has: Saturday, 19h15 on Supersport 1 if you’re not fortune enough to be there live.…
Over-analysing the KZN tier-1’s heading into Saturday
To put it mildly Michaelhouse are not enjoying the best of seasons. In recent weeks they have been on the receiving end against Glenwood, Hilton and Kearsney. Having watched both the Midlands derby against Hilton and the game at Kearsney a week later, it was quite interesting to note the differences in approach of both winning teams. With the big three private schools taking on the big three government schools, it’s an interesting weekend that lies ahead in KZN Tier-1.…
NuPower TUKS finals for 2013
NuPower TUKS for 2013 comes to an exciting end on Saturday at the LC de Villiers Stadium (University of Pretoria sports campus). The main game is the much anticipated match-up between two of the best school rugby 1st XV’s in South Africa this season. Finalists HTS Middelburg and Nelspruit, the two Mpumalanga powerhouses both have outstanding records to date and are worthy of their places in the main event. It looks like it will be a titanic battle to decide who gets crowned the NuPower TUKS champions for 2013.…
SBR Tjampions League
Based on an idea that Tjoppa had hence the name, here is an attempt to rank teams based on strength vs strength. All other results are removed from the equation and only games against other strong rugby schools in 2013 are recorded. Admittedly even this process of deciding which teams should form part of the equation and which ones should not, is also very subjective.
The points system is win = 4 , draw = 2, loss = 0 and 1 bonus point to the losing team if the score difference is less than 10, otherwise the bonus goes to the winning team.…
BHP Top 50 – week ending 04 May 2013
This formula-driven ranking system is compiled by BoishaaiPa. …
Results – week ending 04 May 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | TIME | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Jansen | 36 | 12 | Noord-Kaap | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 07h50 |
| Glenwood | 36 | 13 | Boland Landbou | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 09h00 |
| Monnas | 36 | 14 | Drostdy | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 10h10 |
| Affies | 41 | 21 | Framesby | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 10h10 (B-field) |
| Grey College | 42 | 20 | Oakdale | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 11h20 |
| HJS Paarl BH | 55 | 15 | Paarl BH | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 11h20 (B-field) |
| Grey High | 51 | 10 | Diamantveld | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 12h30 |
| Paarl Gim | 43 | 18 | Harmony (WK Inv) | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 13h40 |
| Paul Roos | 30 | 17 | Maritzburg College | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 14h50 |
| Outeniqua | 39 | 19 | Waterkloof | Wildeklawer – 02/05/13 | 16h00 |
| Oakdale | 40 | 3 | Sharks Inv | Wildeklawer | 07h15 |
| Paarl Gim | 34 | 6 | Waterkloof | Wildeklawer | 08h25 |
| EG Jansen | 64 | 0 | Diamantveld | Wildeklawer | 09h35 |
| Outeniqua | 48 | 15 | Grey High | Wildeklawer | 09h35 (B-field) |
| Glenwood | 17 | 15 | Paarl BH | Wildeklawer | 10h45 |
| Drostdy | 29 | 7 | Wildeklawer Inv | Wildeklawer | 10h45 (B-field) |
| Boland Landbou | 20 | 16 | Noord-Kaap | Wildeklawer | 11h55 |
| Affies | 17 | 10 | Paul Roos | Wildeklawer | 13h05 |
| Grey College | 13 | 8 | Monument | Wildeklawer | 14h15 |
| M. College | 16 | 16 | Framesby | Wildeklawer | 15h25 |
| Die Brandwag | 18 | 19 | St Andrews | EP top 2 at the moment | |
| Selborne | 27 | 23 | Queens | Postponed until Monday | |
| Dale | 46 | 12 | Stirling | ||
| Hudson Park | – | – | Kingswood | Cancelled. Waterlogged field | |
| Nico Malan | 26 | 10 | Despatch | ||
| Jim Fouche | 21 | 22 | Marlow | ||
| Hilton | 34 | 0 | St Charles | ||
| Kearsney | 38 | 5 | Michaelhouse | ||
| Sarel Cilliers | 59 | 5 | Newcastle | 50min game | |
| KES | 16 | 22 | Westville | ||
| Parktown | 33 | 5 | DHS | ||
| Pretoria BH | 28 | 27 | Jeppe | Gauteng English schools top 2 currently | |
| Garsfontein | 61 | 21 | Centurion | Huge game | |
| Transvalia | 72 | 0 | Volkskool, Heidelberg | ||
| Strand | 14 | 21 | SACS | ||
| Tygerberg | 3 | 54 | Rondebosch | ||
| Wynberg | 75 | 3 | Primrose | ||
| Durbanville | 20 | 16 | Hugenote | ||
| Bellville | 23 | 45 | Bishops |
Wildeklawer 2013 Day 2
Match summaries of Wildeklawer Day 2…
Spare a thought for Michaelhouse today
After losing 36-5 to Glenwood and 42-12 to Hilton, it seemed like things could not get worse for Michaelhouse as far as first team rugby is concerned. Well it seemingly has. Between last weekend’s Midlands derby and a round of KZN regional trials and training, House has lost 7 1st XV players ahead of their away game at Kearsney today. …
Wildeklawer Player and Team of Day 2
With most of today’s Saturday games being televised, it would be good to see who you rate over the course of today’s action. Let us know who you’d pick for your:
- Player of the Day
- Back of the Day
- Forward of the Day
- Team of the Day
Woltrui’s choices:
Span van die dag: EG Jansen
Voorspeler van dag: Loskop stut van Monnas. Frans van Wyk
Agterspeler van dag: Loskakel van EG Jansen Ruan Potgieter
Speler van dag: Morne Swart, no 7, van EG Jansen
Beet’s choices:
Team of the day: Monnas. There were some closely contested big games but nothing quite came close to the thrill of the Monnas vs Grey College game, in which Monnas did just about everything to deserve to win it but somehow didn’t. They should have taken their penalty kicks near the end.
Player of the Day: JD Schikerling (Paarl Gim)
Forward of the Day: Morne Swart (EG Jansen). Monnas no.8 Wiehan Jacobs also very good.
Back of the Day: Jurie Linde (Affies)
Character of the Day: Corne Vermaak (Glenwood) who put a nightmare first half behind him and did well in the second half.
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Wildeklawer Day 1 summary
Here are some of my personal thought on the games on Goldstones on Day 1
Video of Outeniqua and other tries here compliments of the High School Rugby World:
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Other SA school rugby rankings – 29 April 2013
The other ranking systems are starting to look a lot like the SBR Thumbsuck now. The Thumbsuck is 1 month old now and comparing the current rankings to the first one, 3 teams have dropped out: Maritzburg College, Pretoria BH and Marlow which have effectively been replaced by Wynberg, HTS Middelburg and Oakdale. Wildeklawer is set to be a defining 2 match days for Waterkloof. If Klofies win both their games at WK, they will take over as the No.1 team in the country next week as far as the Thumbsuck is concerned.…