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Craven Week 2012 Fixtures : How Day 1 & 2 might turn out

8 July, 2012 beet 68

The tried and tested format at Craven Week is amongst other considerations and objectives to work towards two teams, one from the Day 1 group and the other from the Day 2 group, meeting in Saturday’s unofficial final. This means that the main matches on days 3 and 4 have to more or less serve as semi-finals.…

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Craven Week 2012 : Players to watch

8 July, 2012 beet 3

Craven Week is about to kick off. Handre Pollard the Paarl Gim, Western Province under 18 and Junior World Championship winning flyhalf has certainly added considerable weight to the term “high-profile player” this SBR season.…

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KZN U16 Grant Khomo Player Data

6 July, 2012 Pedantic 4

The KZN Under 16 squad had an excellent week at the Grant Khomo inter provincial tournament, winning 2 out of 3 games with the single loss being a nailbiter against a physical Eastern Cape side.…

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Independent Schools Week 2012

4 July, 2012 beet 25

The ISRF kicks off at Penryn School near Nelpruit today. Five Kwazulu-Natal schools  are participating. They are Clifton (Durban), Hilton, Kearsney, Michaelhouse and Thomas More.…

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KZN u16 Grant Khomo Match Day 2 Report

3 July, 2012 The Scout 52

It was a tough day for most teams as 8 out of 10 games had close scorelines. In all those games the difference was 5 points or less, in a couple of games the game was only won in the last 5 minutes. This should be good news for SA Rugby as this proves how strong SA Rugby is.…

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Academy Week Day 1 results

3 July, 2012 beet 0

 Things didn’t go according to plan for the KZN Academy team on Day 1 in Wellington. They went down 34-19 to South Western Districts, this after being just 14-15 behind at the halftime break. It seems like disciple was a major cause for concern with no fewer than three yellow cards being issued to KZN players during the match.…

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KZN u16 Grant Khomo Match Day 1 Report

2 July, 2012 The Scout 2

There wasn’t much to talk about in the first half except the fact that the Pumas dominated every department and scored two unanswered tries. The only positive that KZN could take out of the first half was a long range penalty from Joubert who got it over from his own 10m line. Pumas led 14 – 3 at the break.…

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u19s: Free State 13 Sharks 12

1 July, 2012 beet 8

The Sharks under-19s traveled to Winterton, a little town sort of midway between Escourt and Ladysmith on the KZN map, for a Currie Cup warm-up match against the Free State on Saturday 30 June.…

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Academy Week 2012

1 July, 2012 beet 15

Wellington in the Boland is the venue for this year’s provincial under-18 Academy Week running from 02-05 July. The match days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, so it’s quite congested and will be physically demanding on the players.…

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Grant Khomo Week 2012

1 July, 2012 beet 22

The Grant Khomo Week for under-16 provincial players starts at the University of Johannesburg on Monday 02 July 2012. The scheduling is very tight with each of the twenty teams playing three games over just four days.…

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Bus burns: close call for KZN u18s

29 June, 2012 beet 1

The KZN u18 players and coaching staff were fortunate to escape unharmed when their bus caught alight and eventually burnt to smithereens on the way back to Durban from East London earlier this week. Not so lucky was their new Mr Price Sport kit that was reduced to ashes.…

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Thoughts on Hilton vs Michaelhouse game

28 June, 2012 beet 4

With probably over 10000 people in attendance, Hilton’s Gilfillan field had this sort of mini amphitheatre feel about it.  The atmosphere throughout the game was incredible but probably peaked just prior to kickoff. Reason…

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Mr Price Sport backs the KZN u18 team

28 June, 2012 beet 19

Mr Price Sport, well-known in schoolboy rugby circles throughout the country for their generous kit support, are continuing  the existing partnership with the Kwazulu-Natal under 18 Craven Week team. …

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u13 Craven Week Day 3

27 June, 2012 beet 30

Fixtures for Thursday 28 June:

09:30am: Free State 34 Zimbabwe 0
10:20am: Namibia 10 Pumas 7
11:10am: Border Country Districts 19 Golden Lions 5
12:00pm: Border 5 Leopards 24
12:50pm: Griffons 22 Limpopo 0
01:40pm: Boland 22 Eastern Province 12
02:30pm: Griquas 11 KwaZulu Natal 5
03:20pm: Blue Bulls 28  South Western Districts 5
04:10pm: Valke 0 Western Province 17

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Cheetahs u19 team filled with Grey Bloem OBs

27 June, 2012 beet 0

The Free State under-19 team to take on the Sharks in Winterton on Saturday 30 June has been named. Its interesting to see that the Union has been able to retain the services of many of the players that formed part of the unbeaten Grey College team of 2011. …

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u13 Craven Week Day 2

26 June, 2012 beet 4

The KZN u13s bounced back in the best way possible from an opening day defeat at the hands of the Valke to beat the hosts Free State 26-12. This certainly sets a good precedent for their u18 counterparts to follow when they meet Free State at Craven Week.

 
Eastern Province 12 Golden Lions 7
Limpopo 0 South Western Districts 15
Griffons 19 Pumas 7
Border Country Districts 0 Griquas 10
Boland 7 Valke 8
Leopards 0 Western Province 45
Namibia 36 Zimbabwe 5
Blue Bulls 34 Border 10
Free State 12 KwaZulu Natal 26
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KZN 1st Team Rankings 2012 – updated

25 June, 2012 beet 23

The Hilton win over Michaelhouse has made things a little fuzzy with regards to who the no.1 team in the province is.

There are a number of ways to rank the KZN Tier 1 teams.

To keep it simple, a pretty fair system of awarding 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss has been used below.