Bulls u18s dominate at Bondedag
The Bulls u18 team made their Craven Week intentions loud and clear when they hammered the Cheetahs 37-10 at the annual Bondedag held in Rustenburg on 23 June 2012.…
Maritzburg College’s Festival for 150th
Maritzburg College will be celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2013. Plans for their rugby festival over Easter weekend are falling nicely into place.…
Baby Boks are Junior World Champions
The Baby Boks recorded a marvelous 22-16 win over New Zealand in IRB Junior World Championship final at Newlands last night. It’s the first time since the under-19 and under-21 competitions were merged that New Zealand have gone home empty handed.…
Hilton vs Michaelhouse Preview
The Hilton-Michaelhouse derby is one of the best attended in the country. Despite being a little out of the way, the match often attracts huge crowds with talk about 15000 and more spectators not unusual at all. …
Kearsney look set to play Grey Bloem
Kearsney has been offered the opportunity to play Grey College in a curtain raiser to the Cheetahs vs Cardiff game scheduled to take place in Bloemfontein on 04 August 2012. It’s actually quite a privilege for Kearsney to have been invited to participate in this special fixture.…
Junior World Cup Final
The Baby Boks come up against perennial finalists New Zealand in the final tonight. New Zealand lost their first ever match since the inception of the u20 age-group version of the event against Wales…
KZN Age-Group Rankings 2012
Using the 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss scoring system and then separating teams on the same total by points difference, here are the results arrived at for the KZN 2nd XV, u16A, u15A and u14A age groups in 2012 for the 8 schools that competed against each other in strength vs strength matches:
(Warning: although this is very simplistic system, it is bound to be contentious, so reasonable suggests on how formula driven improvements can be made are welcomed and will be considered).…
New scrumming laws
In a nutshell, the IRB’s new scrumming laws will be tested for a trial period.
“Pause!” will disappear altogether.
“Engage!” will be replaced by “Set!”
So it will be “Crouch! Touch! Set!”…
Michaelhouse beats Kearsney
What a good advert for schoolboy rugby this game turned out to be. With so much at stake in the form of the winner being crowned the number one KZN team for the season, Michaelhouse and Kearsney would have been forgiven for playing conservative, minimal risk rugby. …
Westville to play 3rd term rugby
Westville has organised two home games against touring English Independent schools at the start of the third term.…
Adendorff & Serfontein: IRB Junior Player Nominees
Former Glenwood High School loose-forward, Shaun Adendorff has deservedly earned himself an IRB Junior Player of the Year Award 2012 nomination along with the classy former Grey College midfielder Jan Serfontein and the Irish flyhalf JJ Hanrahan.…
KZN u13 Craven Week Team
The under-13 Craven Week 2012 takes place at Grey College in Bloemfontein this year. The action begins on Monday, 25 June 2012.…
Bondedag 2012
The entertaining Noordelike Bondedag, an appetizer for what’s to come at Craven Week takes place at the Impala Rugby Club in Rustenburg on 23 June 2013.…
The 2012 KZN 1st XV Rankings
When it comes to ranking the top school teams in KZN, there are any number of ways to go about it. For the purposes of keeping 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.…
Baby Boks through to JWC final
The Baby Boks recorded a surprisingly comfortable 35-3 win over Argentina in the Junior World Cup semi-finals.…
KZN Schoolboys take on Sharks Academy
The KwaZulu-Natal Craven Week and the Academy Week teams will get their first taste of action when they take on two Sharks Academy u19 Invitation teams at Kingspark on Monday, 18 June 2012 starting at 2:30pm.…
KZN Schools Craven Week prep setback
Saturday 16 June 2012 was the day meant to be set aside for an away trip to Mpumalanga to play the Pumas in a Craven Week warm-up game. Sadly this is not to be. The game had to be cancelled due to the unavailability of several selected players who still have school rugby commitments. As a result of the same obligations, a later trip to Bondedag has also been scratched.…
Weekend Fixures – 16/06/2012
With Craven Week and Academy Week fast approaching, there is a drastic reduction in the number of games being played around the country. However it appears to be business as usual in the Western Cape with some mouth-watering matches coming up.…
Paul Roos Gim vs Paarl Boys High
Megapro Marketing continues to give SBR fans exactly what they’ve been begging for ever since budget cutbacks took effect a few years back: more TV coverage of their favourite school rugby teams. The sports marketing company’s introduction of the Premier Interschools this year has been a huge and most welcomed success, featuring some of the best known schools taking each other on in high profile derbies.…
K-Day 2012
Grahamstown comes alive this Saturday when Kingswood takes on St Andrews on K-Day, one of the South Africa’s oldest and most well-attended school rugby derbies. Kingswood will host this 138th meeting since 1898 at their City Lords complex.…
Northwood and Barry Wilson part ways
Love him or hate him, there is no getting around the fact that Barry Wilson has made a huge contribution to SBR in Durban over a few decades and deserves much respect for all he’s given back to the wonderful game.…
KZN Schools capping ceremony on 13/06/2012
The KZN u18 Schools players will enjoy a special privilege at Kings Park at 17h30 tonight when they are capped ahead of the prestigious Craven Week tournament that takes place in Port Elizabeth from 09-14 July 2012. Their first game up is on Day 1 against the always formidable Free State team.…
Michaelhouse and Kearsney battle it out for top spot in KZN
Michaelhouse and Kearsney meet up on the Meadows, Balgowan at 15h00 on Saturday 16 June 2012 in an unofficial final of sorts to decide the winners of KZN interschools season.…