Okay this is my new favourite example and is handy for anyone who wants to keep things simple. A bit of what I call FYUI – for your useless information.
We have about 100 or so top rugby schools in South Africa. Working on the assumption that two-thirds of the First XV are matrics and one-third grade-11 or lower, that gives 1000 players graduating high school every year. How many of those make it to play for the Boks one day?…
This exercise below covers the Springbok rugby period from world rugby readmission in 1992 until present day. It started out as an attempt to work out the number of schoolboys in any given year that would go on be capped at Springbok level, based on historical data.…
Supporting one’s rugby team is a pastime filled emotion when done right. These outbursts are sometimes triggered by decisions made by the man in the middle. …
John Duncan, the head coach of the Queens College 1st XV from the time he arrived at the school in 2010, has resigned.…
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Boland has named it’s Coca-Cola Khaya Majola under-19 Cricket Week team. Missing is the name of Boishaai all-rounder Jean-Luc du Plessis, a fast left arm bowler and top order batsman. …
Despite being a very popular South African school sport particularly amongst rugby players, water polo still lives in the shadows of more traditional national sports…
On 03 November 2012 the Sharks team defeated Eastern Province Kings 29-14 in the SARU national sevens final for and I stress here for mens teams. A member of the impressive EP team was none other than one Mbembe Payi. Payi was a student at DHS earlier this year…
There is a lot said on these pages about schools who “buy” players – how about those parents who “sell” their kids – Cyndi
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A squad of 50 Junior World Championship hopefuls was put through their paces during a trial match in front of head coach Dawie Theron and his assistant yesterday.…
This year well established traditional rugby schools Monument, Paul Roos Gymnasium and Dale College bid farewell to leading figures in their rugby programmes.…
The pools for the Junior World Championships (JWC) has been announced. The same irritating format which sees teams divided into 3 pools, with only the winners of each pool and only the single best second placed pool team overall advancing to the semi-finals, stays in place.…
Many of SA’s current crop of SBR heavyweight bloggers (I’m proclaiming it) have signed on for the very challenging yet lighthearted SuperBru End of Year Tour compo. …
Information from a reliable source indicates that a meeting took earlier today (Tuesday 06 November) between the Glenwood and DHS heads. This was at the latter’s request. The meeting was to discuss the move of a prominent Grade 11 First XV rugby player from DHS to Glenwood.…
There are going to be some outstanding first team school rugby festivals taking place around the country between late March and early May 2013.…
Dawie Theron has named a squad of 50 under-20 players to attend trials and a training camp in Stellenbosch from 9-12 November 2012. …
Hosts Garsfontein beat 2010 and 2011 champions Tygerberg 43-28 in the high scoring cup final to claim the @lantic 7s Champion of Champions title for 2012. It was Garsies third @lantic tournament win of the year. They had participated in 2 out of the 16 @lantic regional tournaments and won both (Pretoria and Kempton Park), to qualify for the Champion of Champions main event.…
On 06 November 2012 Raymond Rhule will be 20 years old. Just a little over 130 days ago, 98 maybe 99 out of every 100 South African rugby fans would have been clueless if asked who Raymond Rhule was. He has since redefined the term ‘overnight success’. …
I wanted to throw this one out there for some rational mature feedback because it became a bit of a debate between a few members on my Whatsapp rugby group, starting last night and continuing this morning. It initially revolved around Jan Serfontein, who added the under-20 Player of the Year to his list of rugby awards at the SARU event yesterday. …
The website www.saschoolsports.co.za bravely compiles an SA schools cricket ranking on a regular basis nowadays. Hats off to them for making the effort. It’s a huge undertaking considering that school cricket is being played in at least 3 different formats and at all times of the week. …
SA Schools wing Sergeal Petersen of Grey High School in Port Elizabeth is the Craven Week Player of the Tournament for 2012. Petersen was the best player in the unbeaten Eastern Province under-18 team at Craven Week this year.…
16 schools will compete to be crowned the @Lantic Schools 7’s champions of 2012. The tournament takes place on 02 / 03 November and is hosted by Garsfontein in Pretoria. Supersport 1 will broadcast the match day 2 games including the final live from 13h00 on Saturday, 03 November.…
It’s rugby awards season in South Africa. Nominees have been made known and various player, coach and team of the year prizes will be handed out on Thursday 01 November 2012 in Cape Town. What isn’t clear is who the schoolboy rugby player of 2012 will be. …
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