U19 Currie Cup gets underway
The annual under-19 Currie Cup gets underway today. Seven teams compete over two rounds with the hopes of finishing in the top four and in that way earning a place in the semi-finals.…
KZN take on EP on Craven Week final day
KwaZulu-Natal will feature in the penultimate game of Craven Week 2012. Their opponents are Eastern Province who are unbeaten so far and should be worthy opposition, perhaps even slight favourites going into the game.…
KZN’s Craven Week final hopes dashed by the Lions
Just a couple of days after tasting the good life, Kwazulu-Natal and their supporters had to experience the flip side of the Craven Week experience when the team was beaten 17-8 by the Golden Lions on Wednesday.…
KZN have a Craven Week date with the Lions
…Following their mesmerising 48-24 performance against a seemingly shell-shocked Free State, the KwaZulu-Natal under-18 schools team now has to turn their attentions the Lions. A much stronger pack of forwards and a flyhalf who prefers to seek out field position awaits the KZN boys.
SA court case to decide on dirty play in SBR
On 11 September 2012 a significant case in sports law will be argued in the Supreme Court of Appeal involving an injury sustained in a schoolboy rugby match.…
Craven Week 2012 Fixtures : How Day 1 & 2 might turn out
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.…
Craven Week 2012 : Players to watch
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.…
KZN U16 Grant Khomo Player Data
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.…
KZN u16 Grant Khomo Match Day 3 Report
It was a beautiful day in Johannesburg as teams made their way down to UJ Stadium for their last games of the Grant Khomo Week.…
Independent Schools Week 2012
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.…
Academy Week – Day 2 results
The KZN Country Districts continued to impress with another win, while the KZN team suffered a heavy defeat.…
KZN u16 Grant Khomo Match Day 2 Report
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.…
Grant Khomo Week Day 2
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Academy Week Day 2
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Academy Week Day 1 results
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.…
KZN u16 Grant Khomo Match Day 1 Report
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.…
u19s: Free State 13 Sharks 12
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.…
Academy Week 2012
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.…
Grant Khomo Week 2012
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.…
Bus burns: close call for KZN u18s
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.…
Thoughts on Hilton vs Michaelhouse game
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…
Mr Price Sport backs the KZN u18 team
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. …
The Bulls name a powerful u19 team
The Bulls have named their under-19 team to take on the Leopards in a Currie Cup under 19 preseason friendly at Loftus at 12:00pm on Thursday 28 June.…
u13 Craven Week Day 3
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…