




New Zealand national First XV Championship 2019 – schoolboy rugby
Hastings Boys’ High School of the Hurricanes may have only finished in second place in their own regional (Super 8) round robin regular season and then been beaten in competition final but the wildcard like route proved good enough for them. When push came to shove they produced the perfect record and claimed the biggest price in New Zealand schoolboy rugby – the Barbarian Cup. Although controversial poachers St Kentigern’s were eliminated from the main title race by eventual boys’ school runners-up Kings College of Auckland, St Kent’s did go on to lift the Co-ed Cup in 2019.…




BHP’s Hot 100 1st XV rankings for the decade 2010-2019
The best 1st XV’s in rank order…


Marius Schoeman Sevens Festival 2019 at Paarl Gim
The Marius Schoeman schools festival incorporates three separate Sevens tournaments for the u17, u15 and u12 age-groups and takes place on Friday 06 September and Saturday 07 September 2019 at Paarl Gymnasium.
Live Streaming
Wedstryde op die A-veld sal REGSTREEKS uitgesaai word via die volgende skakels:
Donderdag
Vrydag
Saterdag
https://www.facebook.com/MSsevens/
https://www.facebook.com/Marius-Schoeman-840533559426872/
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Coaching changes make the off-season news
Several school rugby coaching changes have caught the social media’s attention.…

SchoolboyRugby Blog BHP Top 30 – Final for 2019
Contact : BoishaaiPa@mweb.co.za
click here for the BHP ranking formula explanation…

The 2019 Schoolboy Rugby Season
Hi all
The 2019 regular season is past tense!
I thought for a change it would be nice to document the 50 or so most season defining events/matches/characters of 2019. It would therefore include results on the field and things that happened off it as well and can even extend to the comments made here by specific bloggers. I have attached the results that I recorded for 2019 in a PDF file to help the memory bank along.
If anyone is interested in making a contribution via comment or email (beet@schoolboyrugby.co.za) please do. I will blog the data below.…

Welkom rematch in the Kovsie Liga final 2019
Final : Welkom Gim 62 Goudveld 7
Welkom’s two big guns Hoërskool Goudveld and Welkom Gimnasium will bring the curtain down on the 2019 schoolboy rugby season when they square off in the Kovsie Liga 1st XV final on 24 August at the Free State University in Bloemfontein.…

Virsekerbeker 2020 – Division 1 groups after the promotion-relegation
CUP | PLATE | SHIELD | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C1 | Menlopark | ||||
C2 | Garsfontein | P2 | Zwartkop | S2 | Lichtenburg |
C3 | Monument | P3 | Rustenburg | S3 | Heidelberg VS |
C4 | HTS Middelburg | P4 | Ben Vorster | S4 | Oos-Moot |
C5 | Waterkloof | P5 | Nelspruit | S5 | Florida |
C6 | EG Jansen | P6 | Montana | S6 | Jeugland |
C7 | Helpmekaar | P7 | Kempton Park | S7 | Hugenote (Springs) |
C8 | Noordheuwel | ||||
P1 | Marais Viljoen
(promoted) |
S1 | Middelburg
(promoted) |
Div2 | Ligbron
(promoted) |
C9 | Transvalia
(relegated) |
P8 | Eldoraigne
(relegated) |
||
Centurion
Relegated to Div 2 |

Bishops claim Southern Suburbs title but not the clean sweep
2020 Cape Town Southern Suburbs favourites, Bishops have come out on top in 2019! This is the first time Bishops have topped the competitive regional quadrangualar since 2011.…

The exclusive list of ranking topping unbeaten teams 2007-2019
# | School | Year | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | PD/Game |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Grey College | 2007 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 141 | 687 | 45.8 |
2 | Grey College | 2008 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 624 | 168 | 456 | 30.4 |
3 | Paarl Gim | 2008 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 863 | 224 | 639 | 29.0 |
4 | Grey College | 2010 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 714 | 186 | 528 | 31.1 |
5 | Grey College | 2011 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 752 | 216 | 536 | 28.2 |
6 | Affies | 2013 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 581 | 191 | 390 | 27.9 |
7 | Paarl Gim | 2013 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 819 | 231 | 588 | 26.7 |
8 | HJS Paarl BH | 2015 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 556 | 225 | 331 | 17.4 |
9 | HJS Paarl BH | 2016 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 652 | 238 | 414 | 23.0 |
10 | HJS Paarl BH* | 2017 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 609 | 220 | 414 | 27.6 |
11 | Glenwood | 2018 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 748 | 202 | 546 | 32.1 |
12 | Grey College | 2018 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 612 | 241 | 371 | 28.5 |
13 | Grey College | 2019 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 909 | 321 | 588 | 34.6 |
* lost 1 NZ tour game |
Team Lists…


Amazing Greys
Grey College have completed another unbeaten season and come Valentines Day 2020 they will reach the 1000 days unbeaten marker. …

School Rugby fixtures & results – week ending 17 August 2019
DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | INFO | BROADCAST | ||
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Mon.12Aug | HTS Bellville | 10 | 19 | Strand | ||
Tue.13Aug | SA Schools B | 31 | 31 | Wales u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Paarl Gim |
Tue.13Aug | SA Schools | 48 | 14 | Argentina u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Paarl Gim |
Tue.13Aug | England u18 | 29 | 25 | France u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Paarl Gim |
Fri.16Aug | Duineveld | 15 | 44 | Welkom Gim | Kovsie Liga Semi | |
Sat.17Aug | Sentraal | 28 | 59 | Goudveld | Kovsie Liga Semi | |
Sat.17Aug | SA Schools B | 12 | 27 | Argentina u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Hugenote |
Sat.17Aug | France u18 | 14 | 18 | Wales u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Hugenote |
Sat.17Aug | SA Schools | 33 | 27 | England u18 | u18 International Series | on SuperSport – at Hugenote |
Sat.17Aug | Menlopark | 44 | 17 | Helpmekaar | Virsekerbeker Cup Final | |
Sat.17Aug | Ben Vorster | 37 | 36 | Eldoraigne | Virsekerbeker Plate Final | |
Sat.17Aug | Hugenote (Springs) | 57 | 34 | Middelburg | Virsekerbeker Shield | |
Sat.17Aug | Nico Malan | 07 | 94 | Framesby | ||
Sat.17Aug | Pearson | 28 | 27 | Parel Vallei | ||
Sat.17Aug | Paul Roos | 28 | 51 | Grey College | PI : On SuperSport | |
Sat.17Aug | Durbanville | 46 | 39 | Stellenberg | ||
Sat.17Aug | Rondebosch | 21 | 10 | Bishops | ||
Sat.17Aug | Wynberg | 29 | 00 | SACS | ||
Sat.17Aug | Tygerberg | 12 | 23 | Brackenfell | ||
Sat.17Aug | DF Malan | 06 | 30 | Bellville | ||
Sat.17Aug | De Kuilen | 18 | 50 | Worcester Gim | ||
Sat.17Aug | Swartland | 08 | 06 | Hugenote |




Menlopark have a chance to rewrite the history books
The rags to riches season of Menlopark (founded in 1963) could yet see them win their FIRST EVER Noordvaal premier cup / Virsekerbeker title. Their opponents Helpmekaar have also defied the odds to reach the 2019 cup final and this will be a second year in succession that stand out head coach and school teacher Shaun Jackson’s troop appear in the showpiece. Helpies have won numerous Beeld Large Schools titles in recent years but South Africa’s very first Afrikaans private school has to go all the way back to 1975 for the last time they were crowded champions at the highest level in the former Transvaal provincial region.…
