Rugby Travel Academy teams at the World Schools Festival 2023
The Rugby Travel Academy will once again be fielding two invitation teams at this year’s World Schools Festival in Thailand.…
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SA Schools Rugby & SA Schools Cricket double representatives : Riley Norton
An amazing achievement for 17-year-old Riley Norton of Paul Roos, who was recently selected for the SA u19 Cricket World Cup Squad, a tournament taking place in South Africa early in 2024. Riley is not only part of an exclusive club of elite school sportsmen to achieve this unique feat, he is possibly the youngest schoolboy to achieve the double and he is also the first rugby forward in close to 40-years to make it onto the list.…
Full circle for Affies’ Jacobs twins
Affies head into 2024 expecting to field a coming of age team that will set their sights on a top-3 national finish.…
Paul Roos to tour Ireland in December 2023
Paul Roos are gearing up to take on the Northern Hemisphere winter conditions complete with potentially tricky to adapt to surfaces, during the December 2023 school holidays, when they travel to Ireland for 11 days with a 38-player squad.…
Tony Stoops written into Stellenberg history books
Retired Western Cape schoolboy rugby patron Tony Stoops has received an honorable mention by Stellenberg as the man who coined the term “Jade Brigade”.…
KZN names Sharks Youth Week coaches for 2024 at AGM
The Sharks Craven Week team will be in for a baptism of fire as they are lined up to play Western Province in their opening game at Craven Week 2024.…
New Boland Rugby deal has people buzzing about ambition
Boland Rugby recently announced an exciting and potentially very lucrative deal with the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport (SAS), a subsidiary of Remgro Limited, and a consortium comprising companies controlled by the Motsepe family (Motsepe Consortium). Now a lot of Cape locals are talking about the sky being the limit.…
St Charles has an unconventional, exciting & expensive 2024 season to come
St Charles College in Pietermaritzburg will turn 150 years old in 2025! The rugby year before that celebration is going to be a pretty unique one as well, judging by their fixture list.…
What lies ahead for the Rugby World Cup 2023 winning Springboks
The Springboks became the first team to win the Rugby World Cup four times, after beating their main rivals, the New Zealand All Blacks 12-11 in the tense 2023 final in Paris.…
Kearsney appoints Keegan Daniel as Director of Rugby
Kearsney has gone against the grain and appointed the relatively inexperienced coach Keegan Daniel as their Director of Rugby.…
Little Kingswood were huge in 2023!
Kingswood, the English-medium independent co-ed (±200 boys) from Makhanda (Grahamstown), finished 2023 as the top school in Eastern Cape interschools matches. It turned out the 2023 season was on par with those of 2010 and 2016 when they also only lost 2 matches per season during those campaigns. Under the guidance of head coach James Winstanley they proved to be massive overachievers.…
Ranking prediction for 2024 using u16A of 2022 & 2023
Using the u16 rankings from NextGenXV and from SASchoolSport …
Paarl Gim set to land a top-top rugby man as new headmaster
Confirmed. Northwood headmaster Paul Viljoen will start as the new Paarl Gim rector on 01 January 2024.…
It’s business as unusual as KZN plans for 2024
Finalising the KwaZulu-Natal fixture list for 2024 is at an advanced stage and its the usual unique elements that have played a part in making it the most difficult fixture list in the country to setup.…
Menlopark hoping athletics gives their rugby the rapid recovery “hupstoot”
The positive link between athletics and rugby has often been discussed on this forum in the past. Now Menlopark are pinning rugby hopes on their outstanding athletics programme and very soon they will be the only school in South Africa with an 8-lane tartan athletics track to include in the offering (Noordheuwel has 6-lanes).…
Noordvaal agrees to expand the four A-division leagues for 2024
The majority of Noordvaal schools favoured the proposal to expand the number of schools in each league for 2024.…
Mixed feelings about Noordvaal expansion proposal
The Noordvaal schools will meet at Midstream College in Pretoria on Wednesday, 13 September 2023 to decide if they are for or against a proposed expansion of the Plate, Shield and Bowl leagues from eight to nine schools per league. The Cup being the premier league has had nine teams ever since Waterkloof was accepted back into the fold a few years back. …
International rugby players of 2023 by graduation year
The current international test rugby players of:
Argentina, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa
England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland & Wales
grouped by the year in which they turned 18 …
No second cup but Jansies still big winners in 2023
EG Jansen may have gone down to Garsfontein in the Noordvaal Cup final of 2023 (41-22) but what an outstanding season effort by the boys from Boksburg to turn their season into such a success story.…
Rondebosch are the 2023 Champions of the Southern Suburbs
Rondebosch enjoyed a fairytale ending to their season when they battled back from 35-22 down and scored a winning try with time up on the clock to beat Bishops 36-35 at the Piley Rees and in so doing secure a first Southern Suburbs time since 2017.…