Eastern Cape rugby schools 2015 run-down
Thank you to Eastern Cape school rugby supporter “Rugbyfan” for this blog about many of the leading contenders on the Eastern Cape scene:…
Grahamstown private schools at odds with EPCD over K-Day
There is a BIG problem in EPCD. Two of their main schools Kingswood and St Andrew’s, both privates based in Grahamstown have placed their own annual inter-schools meeting above the region’s Craven Week preparations on the rugby priority list.…
2 DHS rugby stars have returned to their Eastern Cape roots
The DHS 1st XV enters the 2015 season minus two standout rugby players who have returned to the Eastern Cape.…
Port Natal Night Series 2015: Glenwood retains the title
Venue: Port Natal Skool
Dates: 06,10,13,17,20,27 February 2015 (Tuesdays and Fridays)
Teams: Port Natal, George Campbell, Development, Glenwood, DHS and Westville (debut)
Sponsors: Kenfield Tyres…
Only 1 out of 35 schools play rugby in most SA regions
SARU CEO Jurie Roux while talking about their Strategic Transformation Plan mentioned:
“Rugby is massively transformed but we know we have challenges: only one in 35 schools in provinces such as KZN, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West play rugby for example, which provides unique challenges for those provinces compared to the Western and Eastern Cape where 60% of school rugby is played.”…
No KZN Top Schools Rugby Fest at Kings Park in 2015
The KZNRU has again failed in an attempt to organise a Top Schools Rugby Festival at Kings Park. That makes it just one out of three now for those tasked with organising the event, which is not a record to be proud of.…
College team to play Voortrekker at Vories Night Series
Maritzburg College has named a team of 1st XV hopefuls combined with last year’s players to take on the hosts at the Voortrekker Night Series in Pietermaritzburg on Friday, 27 February. With numerous players either unavailable due to summer sports commitments or injury, College’s first outing of 2015 will be a chance for the new coaching staff to try out a few positional ideas as well as for fringe players to make an early impression.
Score: College 38 Voortrekker 5…
Former Hentie Cilliers player stars for Welkom Gim in Sevens win
A third Welkom Gim rugby player that attended Hentie Cilliers last year has made the news in under a week.
This time it’s good news though. …
Rondebosch & Porties attending the Woestynfees in Namibia
Namakwaland, Rondebosch and Port Natal are amongst the South African schools that will take part in the Woestynfees 2015 at Walvisbaai Privaat in Namibia. The festival dates are 08 – 11 April 2015.…
Glenwood & Westville produce preseason exhibition rugby
Glenwood and Westville combined to produce a wonderful advert for schoolboy rugby during the Port Natal Night Series Round-4 match which Glenwood won 14-7. The score-line was academic really. The fast paced rugby was a pleasure to watch.…
Schoolboy rugby curtain-raisers at Kings Park
In an effort to improve their relationships with the KZN schools, provide the experience of a lifetime for school 1st XV players and encourage school rugby supporters to head down to Kings Park, the Sharks have relaunched school rugby curtain-raisers at Kings Park. These will be held on Super Rugby match days.…
A snippet of Garsfontein and Pretoria’s history
Here is something I was able to piece together from various emails and the blog. It would be go if bloggers could add contributions to help expand it.…
SchoolBoyRugby Blog House Rules
This is overdue. A set of guidelines to ensure that the SchoolBoyRugby blog stays on course to delivering something that is meaningful and interesting in the context of school rugby rather than it deteriorate into a type of soap opera or MTV like reality show that is far removed from anything that is normal or liked. As usual nothing is set in stone. Everyone is welcome to add their views on what needs to be done to keep the quality of comments good without being rigid.…
Contract dispute sidelines 2 schoolboy rugby players in the Free State
Free State. According to a report in Netwerk24 (link) two promising schoolboy rugby players that joined Welkom Gymnasium from Hennie Cilliers in Virginia this year are not allowed to play rugby for any school except the Virginia Sports Academy (Hentie Cilliers) until a dispute that has arisen over their respective contracts with the Academy are laid to rest. The Welkom magistrate has enforced this until the charges for breach of contract is resolved by arbitration on 19 March. The boys are from George and Port Elizabeth and the report mentions that the academy had already spent a large sum of money on them.…
Schoolboy Rugby Recruitment Scorecard
For the first time it’s possible to assign a value to a high school rugby recruit thanks to the SBR Recruitment Scorecard.…
What’s the plan SARU?
SARU needs to stop ball watching and come up with a game plan to preserve quality rugby in South Africa.…
Bellville could be a 2015 surprise package
This probably won’t be news to the well-informed Western Province community but for the rest of the schoolboy rugby loving country it might be a good thing to keep an eye on Bellville High School’s progress this season. This year’s 1st XV senior group has achieved really good results coming up through the age-groups.…
FAQ: how long is the school rugby sin bin time?
Schoolboy rugby players don’t often get sent to the bin but when they do this sort of thing happens a lot: someone in the crowd turns to you or the guy sitting near you and asks how long the player has to stay in the bin. Well if you didn’t know the answer to that question, here we go. On their website, the the SA Referees have specified maximum playing times for various age-group levels and provided the sin bin times to coincide with these playing times. …
UKZN ready to kickoff the Varsity Shield
The Varsity Cup B-section known as the Varsity Shield gets underway with the televised game at 16h35 between the University of KwaZulu-Natal Impis and the University of the Western Cape (UWC).…
Mastercoach 2015 Rugby Konferensie
MASTERCOACH 2015
RUGBY KONFERENSIE
26 & 27 Februarie 2015
(by HS Monument, Krugersdorp)
Mastercoach 2014 was ‘n uiters suksesvolle, opwindende en prakties-gerigte rugby konferensie. Die referente wat opgetree het was van hoogstaande gehalte en elkeen was afrigters wat hulle merk op die internasionale verhoog gemaak het.…
Grey College fixtures for 2015
The finalisation of the Grey College fixture list for 2015 is being delayed because the Bloemfontein City League is yet to confirm the local inter-schools matches. For now here is the provisional fixture list. It is as impressive as always. Grey pits their strength against many of the toughest schoolboy rugby opponents in the land.…
SA schoolboy rugby : who will be tops in 2015
The changing of 1st XV personnel every season in some cases amounts to a complete overhaul of first choice players and makes schoolboy rugby a lot more of a challenge when it comes to predicting who will finish up where at the end of the season. So with that in mind there is a quickly put together list of teams that are attracting pre-season attention:…
Foreign players boost for Northwood rugby
News out of Durban North is that Northwood has welcomed several new foreigner students to their school. It’s unconfirmed but believed that as many as five boys from the Netherlands and Zimbabwe stand a good chance of being incorporated into their 1st XV rugby squad for 2015, which if all goes well should improve the school’s rugby outlook for this season.…