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.…
Wildeklawer 2013 – results & team sheets
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu.02May | EG Jansen | 36 | 12 | Noord-Kaap |
| Thu.02May | Glenwood | 36 | 13 | Boland Landbou |
| Thu.02May | Monument | 36 | 14 | Drostdy |
| Thu.02May | Affies | 41 | 21 | Framesby |
| Thu.02May | Grey College | 42 | 20 | Oakdale |
| Thu.02May | HJS Paarl BH | 55 | 15 | Sharks Invitation |
| Thu.02May | Grey HS | 51 | 10 | Diamantveld |
| Thu.02May | Paarl Gim | 43 | 18 | Harmony SA |
| Thu.02May | Paul Roos | 30 | 17 | Maritzburg College |
| Thu.02May | Outeniqua | 39 | 19 | Waterkloof |
| Sat.04May | Oakdale | 40 | 03 | Sharks Invitation |
| Sat.04May | Paarl Gim | 34 | 06 | Waterkloof |
| Sat.04May | EG Jansen | 64 | 00 | Diamantveld |
| Sat.04May | Outeniqua | 48 | 15 | Grey HS |
| Sat.04May | Glenwood | 17 | 15 | HJS Paarl BH |
| Sat.04May | Drostdy | 29 | 07 | Harmony SA |
| Sat.04May | Boland Landbou | 20 | 16 | Noord-Kaap |
| Sat.04May | Affies | 17 | 10 | Paul Roos |
| Sat.04May | Grey College | 13 | 08 | Monument |
| Sat.04May | Maritzburg College | 16 | 16 | Framesby |
Which school has the toughest fixtures at Wildeklawer 2013
Using BHP’s ranking for this week and assigning a value based on a formula of 100 minus current rank to each school with the two invitation teams given the benefit of being ranked jointly in 85th position (100-85=15 points), the sum of each school’s two opponents was arrived at and used as the basis for determining who had the hardest schedule. Waterkloof came out tops. The school from Pretoria has to play Outeniqua and Paarl Gymnasium at this year’s Wildeklawer Skouspel. …
KZN needs crucial road victories to keep Grogper Cup dreams alive
After Gauteng raced into a 4-0 lead thanks to outstanding efforts by St Davids and St Albans, KZN’s Northwood spearheaded by their frontrow trio put a spirited fightback to come from 11-3 down at home to beat a gutsy St Benedicts team. Westville backed up this first win in the compo with a very meaningful home result of their own against a strong Pretoria Boys High outfit. At 4-2 and with many feeling that the tail end of this compo will favour the KZN schools, it makes this weekend’s two games tie-breakers of sorts. …
KZN vs Gauteng Festival at George Campbell
UPDATED: KZN wins 11-8 with 1 draw.
There is a real McCoy annual festival in which schools from KwaZulu-Natal take on their Gauteng counterparts. This year as part of their Golden Jubilee celebrations, George Campbell from North Beach in Durban will be hosting this 20-school strong festival which consists of two match days, Saturday 27 April and Monday 29 April 2013. After the Saturday games, organisers will determine which KZN and Gauteng schools to pair up for the Monday fixtures. Their aim is to match strength versus strength.…
BHP Top 50 – week ending 27 April 2013
This formula-driven ranking system is the only one on any school rugby website to have ranked Paarl Gim as the No.1 team in SA last week. This week EG Jansen and Centurion make the noticeable gains at the top, while Monnas falls 15 places to the unfamiliar possie of 31.…
WP Final u18 trial teams announced
The WP schools rugby selectors have announced the three final Under 18 trials teams, which will practice at De Kuilen on Monday 13 and 20 May 2013 and then, after any tweaking necessitated by injury, take on their Boland counterparts at Wellington on Wednesday 22 May.…
Match breakdown: Paarl Gim 37 Outeniqua 25
Paarl Gymnasium defeated Outeniqua 37-25 in an away game the many got to enjoy as a result of the Premier Interschools live T.V. coverage. By winning the game Gimmies effectively put a target on their backs as the new team to beat in SA schoolboy rugby.
The game was little like a “Rock, Paper, Scissors!” contest with the Kwaggas constantly opting for individual brilliance (scissors) and almost always being trumped by Gim’s teamwork approach (rock). …
Results – 27 April 2013
UPDATED
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M.College | 38 | 11 | DHS | Midweek game – College raced to a 31-6 (5 try) halftime lead, then seemed to take their foot off the pedal. Also brought on subs. DHS only lost 2nd half 5-7 |
| Affies | 46 | 6 | KES | Midweek game |
| St Charles | 17 | 18 | Voortrekker | Midweek game – Voortrekker caused a major upset by winning this one |
| Port Natal | 11 | 20 | George Campbell | Midweek game – Campbell seemed well in control leading 17-3 at one stage. Porties fought back in the last 15min to make it respectable. |
| Centurion | 16 | 12 | Monnas | NuPower Pool decider – Centurion are in the Top 4 semi-final |
| Rustenburg | 34 | 39 | Kempton Park | NuPower Monday game – Kempies play Centurion in NuPower semi |
| Voortrekker (Beth) | 27 | 21 | Hentie Cilliers | |
| Outeniqua | 25 | 37 | Paarl Gim | Live on TV : SS1 compliments of Premier Interschools |
| DHS | 3 | 42 | Westville | |
| Hilton | 42 | 12 | Michaelhouse | Huge derby |
| Northwood | 13 | 26 | M. College | |
| St Charles | 0 | 55 | Kearsney | |
| Selborne | 5 | 41 | Grey College | |
| Wynberg | 19 | 15 | Grey HS | |
| Graeme | 22 | 23 | St Andrews | Graeme missed a final kick to win it |
| Marlow | 34 | 19 | Nico Malan | |
| Kingswood | 50 | 7 | Kirkwood | |
| Itembelihle | 0 | 69 | Die Brandwag | |
| Primrose | 9 | 52 | Bishops | |
| Rondebosch | 31 | 16 | Stellenberg | |
| SACS | 0 | 32 | Paul Roos | |
| Tygerberg | 59 | 6 | Bellville | |
| Oakdale | 36 | 10 | Lagenhoven Gim | |
| Menlopark | 27 | 17 | KES | |
| Affies | 36 | 18 | Jeppe | |
| Helpmekaar | 14 | 34 | Waterkloof | |
| Parktown | 3 | 56 | Pretoria BH | |
| HTS Witbank | 24 | 8 | Middelburg | PUK Prestige League final (see picture of champions below) |
| HTS Middelburg | 30 | 30 | Centurion | NuPower – 1st-4th semi. HTS Middelburg advances to final by scoring more tries |
| Nelspruit | 42 | 23 | Kempton Park | NuPower – 1st-4th semi |
| EG Jansen | 32 | 18 | Monnas | NuPower – 5th-8th semi |
| Garfontein | 55 | 20 | Ermelo | NuPower – 5th-8th semi |
| Transvalia | 34 | 14 | Rustenburg | NuPower – 9th-12th semi |
| Vereeniging Gim | 17 | 31 | Florida | NuPower – 9th-12th semi |
| Marais Viljoen | 15 | 34 | Eldoraigne | NuPower – 13th-16th semi |
| Pietersburg | 18 | 34 | Klerksdorp | NuPower – 13th-16th semi |
HTS Witbank, PUK Prestige League winners 2013
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Various SA schoolboy rugby rankings for 20 April 2013
Just a quick squiz at how the school rugby rankings are looking ahead of this weekend’s games.…
Super Rugby Superbru Round 12
Archie from Ben Vorster is still hanging onto a slender lead ahead of this weekend’s round.
| GAME | DATE | DAY | TIME | HOME | AWAY | ||
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| 62 | 26/04/13 | Fri | 09:35 | Hurricanes | Stormers | ||
| 63 | 26/04/13 | Fri | 11:40 | Reds | Blues | ||
| 64 | 27/04/13 | Sat | 09:35 | Chiefs | Sharks | ||
| 65 | 27/04/13 | Sat | 11:40 | Brumbies | Force | ||
| 66 | 27/04/13 | Sat | 17:05 | Bulls | Waratahs | ||
| 67 | 27/04/13 | Sat | 19:10 | Cheetahs | Kings | ||
| 68 | 28/04/13 | Sun | 05:05 | Crusaders | Rebels |
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