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Sorry late notification: please remember to click on the SBR Prediction Pool option on the menu bar at the top of the page and make your picks for Saturday’s matches.…

This weekend’s prediction pool games are :…

by Rowan Philip :
UNION agents and KZN school scouts are lurking on the sidelines of schoolboy rugby matches, armed with “incentives” and cunning strategies to poach talented teenagers away from the schools that groomed them…
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This last week produced a high number of one sided contests. Here are the Top 15 big scores amongst the schools that this blog tracks:…

http://www.bdlive.co.za/sport/rugby/2014/05/29/poaching-of-schoolboy-talent-under-spotlight-as-top-schools-cut-ties…

Maritzburg College vs Hilton
Monument vs Glenwood
Kearsney vs St Stithians
Port Natal vs Northwood
DHS vs St Charles
Grey HS vs St Andrew’s
Hudson Park vs Queen’s
Kingswood vs Dale
Marlow vs Framesby
Bishops vs Wynberg
Paarl Gim vs Outeniqua
Affies vs Jeppe
Waterkloof vs Centurion
Eldoraigne vs Garsfontein
Alberton vs Linden…

Selborne, Glenwood, EG Jansen, St John’s, Paul Roos and Grey College are the leaders.…

Click on the SBR Prediction Pool menu option near the top of the page. Also don’t forget to make your Premier Interschools Superbru picks and to watch or PVR the live games on TV this weekend: HJS Paarl vs Grey College and Garsfontein vs Menlopark…

1 Maritzburg College vs Kearsney, 2 Northwood vs Michaelhouse, 3 Hilton vs DHS, 4 Dale vs Queen’s, 5 Grey College vs Selborne, 6 Jeppe vs Pretoria BH, 7 Parktown vs St Stithians, 8 Boland Landbou vs HJS Paarl BH, 9 Paarl Gim vs Tygerberg, 10 Paul Roos  vs Wynberg, 11 Waterkloof vs Garsfontein, 12 Centurion vs Menlopark, 13 Sentraal (FS) vs Jim Fouche, 14 Kempton Park vs EG Jansen…

This is not the Ranking System, it is just the win-draw-loss records of each school to date with points awarded.…

Aim: to rank the top rugby high school by region. Achieved by using only their regional inter-schools results.
Result: still quite early in the season but starting to take shape…

Okay. So the SBR Blog! has 12 games lined up for you to test your ability this weekend. If you’re a registered user all you have to do is click on the SBR Prediction Pools menu option at the top of the page. There are some huge games coming up and three of them will be on TV this Saturday.…

From www.schoolsportsnews.co.za
TVPC Media has confirmed a provisional fixture list for their live school sports broadcasts, The Game, for the 2014 season.

The matches will all be broadcast on DSTV channel 319 and will also be broadcast at the same time on Channel 319 on Top TV and Channel 201 on OpenView HD.…

Aim: to rank the top rugby high school by region. Achieved by using only their regional inter-schools results.
Result: still to early in the season to draw any conclusions. 10-May-2014 will be a big weekend!…

Here’s my pick of 30 matches that have helped to shape the 2014 in terms of where the top rugby schools fit into the big picture.…

Wildeklawer is widely regarded as the premier school rugby tournament in South Africa. Earning it that distinction is the quality of the teams participating and within those team are the some of the best schoolboy rugby players in South Africa at present.…

In a battle of the KZN private schools, St Charles hosted Clifton at their beautiful facility in Pietermaritzburg.

St Charles got off to a bright start and by the 15-minute they had built a buffer of 12-0 via two tries. …

A highly successful seventh Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival wrapped up today with the announcement of five players who each received bursaries to the Sharks Academy for 2015.…

Match reports courtesy of Working Words and the organisers of the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival:…

Please stick with me here as I attempt to share some of my opinions which actually just echo things said already mentioned by bloggers in earlier comments. Also please share your own thoughts on player/team performances. …

Match Reports courtesy of Working Words and the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival Organisers:…

Hi Everyone,

Especially if you are new around here, please take a few moments to read and understand the House Rules by clicking on the orange box in the sidebar.…

Apologies. There has been another change to the Wildeklawer fixture list, resulting in unupdated details been sent out by the organisers re: the TV schedule. It results in good news for Monnas supporters. Monnas are now going to play Boland Landbou and that game is NOT being televised.

Glenwood and Waterkloof alose out as SuperSport’s schedule only has room for 8 out of the 10 Wildeklawer Day 1 games on Public Holiday Monday, 28 April 2014 to be televised live.…

Awards for Player of the Day, Back and Forward of the Day, Team of the Day, Game of the Day, Spirit of the Day…

Here are the 6 match reports compliments of Working Words and the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival organisers:…

From Greenblooded:

Once again – the KERF will feature 2 international referees:

Craig Joubert will referee the Selbourne / Affies and Grey College / Monnas games

while Marius Jonker will referee the Framesby / Monnas and Grey College / EG Jansen games.

Please don’t forget make your KERF predictions! Either click on menu option at the top of the page or the link in the sidebar. Well done to Star who is our weekly winner and KCOB our Grey PE Festival winner.

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I’ve been wanting to write this blog about the four top fullbacks playing at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival for quite a while now. When the inspiration first came to me back in 2013 I thought it was a sure bet. KERF would be the ultimate battleground. The best fullback of the four stood a very good chance of being numero uno in the land in 2014.…

Predict the results of the following 12 games taking place this Saturday by clicking on the “SBR Prediction Pools” menu option near the top of this page. Good luck!

Maritzburg College vs PBHS;   Selborne vs Queen’s; Brandwag (Uitenhage) vs Marlow; Paul Roos vs Grey PE; KES vs St Johns; Bishops vs Boland Landbou; Oakdale vs Paarl Gim; Waterkloof vs Affies; Monument vs HTS Middelburg; Transvalia vs Nelspruit; EG Jansen vs Kempton Park; Garsfontein vs Eldoraigne…

If you switch your telly over to Supersport HD at 14:05 this Saturday, 12 April 2014, you’ll be able to catch one of the top schoolboy rugby matches of the year between hosts Paul Roos and Grey High (PE).  Something you might not know about or even pick during the broadcast is the use of the squad system.…

By Grasshopper

Many believe that today’s schoolboy players are far larger than 20 years ago. I agree that today due to improved supplements, gym programmes, professional trainers etc that the boys are physically better conditioned and the games have more ‘physicality’ if such a word actually exists. It seems to be all that commentators talk about these days.…

SA cricketer Herschelle Gibbs of Bishop’s has often been described as one of the finest SA schoolboy rugby flyhalves of all times. Interestingly when it comes to conversations about outstanding school flyhalves, there are still strong associations made to the performances of SA cricketing greats Peter Kirsten (SACS), Lee Barnard (KES) and Daryll Cullinan (Queen’s). Apart from Gibbs, Maritzburg College flyhalf Udo Goedeke also represented both codes at SA Schools level.…

The Mutual & Federal XV was selected after 3 days of action at Oakdale’s Festival in Riversdale, SWD. …

By correctly predicting 26 of the 33 matches played at the Grey PE Festival 2014 along with answering the bonus question correctly, KCOB is the 2014 Grey PE Pool Champion and will be the envy of his peers by proudly donning the Blue Cap.…

Blog from a spectator at the Paarl Gym u16 Tournament on Day 1 & 2…

This was a great day of rugby but so unfair in that more difficult choices had to be made about which games to watch.…

The pool code for:  SchoolBoyRugby.co.za is

cagyvims…

GAMES ON DAY 1…