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Northwood’s YouTube blueprint to overcome DigiTV issues
In these difficult times when broadcasting school rugby had become a need, not just a luxury, Northwood has a solution that other schools in the same bracket need to consider as well.…
DigiTV R50 / R100 packages in support of Monnas Centenary fundraising
DIGITV TO SUPPORT MONNAS’ CENTENARY FUNDRAISING
DigiTV is all about community and we were moved by how the community of Hoërkool Monument as well as the schoolboy rugby fraternity came together during the last week to help make the Monnas Centenary Festival a reality after it seemed that all was lost.…
Out of province school rugby tours – red tape
Schools have to apply for permission to tour.…
Covid concerns for Gauteng tours as Klofies netball cancelled
There has been a Covid outbreak amongst students and teachers at Waterkloof in Pretoria recently . Even their headmaster tested positive and is in hospital. The Waterkloof nedball tournament has been cancelled.
Its belived that the Gauteng Department of Education might act swiftly and strictly to try bring matters under control.
Affies in Pretoria are set to host the Noord-Suid tournament next week.…
Feel-good story as Rickerd stays at Dokkies
Talented Rickerd Bornman, a promising u18 loose-forward is part of the SARU Elite Player Development squad for 2021. What’s impressive is that he’s rise to be recognised as one of the top players in his position and age-group in the country, has all come about whilst he is a student at Dr Malan in Meyerton. He is in fact the headboy of his high school this year. …
DigiTV up to the Monnas Centenary Fest challenge
DigiTV on the Monument Centenary Festival:
“we plan to handle this as a full production like a Wildeklawer”
DigiTV will roll out their A-game setup. This will vastly improve the chances that viewers who login to watch the tournament starting on Friday 23 April 2021, are not let down by the quality or other streaming related interrupts.…
One-off festivals are extra hard work
In retrospective one realises just how hard it is to organise a successful one-off school rugby festival. Forget Covid times, in normal times it’s hard enough.…
SA Schools Challenge Trust’s mission statement to give back to schoolboy rugby
The SA School Challenge logo appears as an official sponsor of the Monument Centenary Rugby Festival. To find out a bit more about the trust and what it stands for, here is the mission statement:…
Contact school sport prepares to get the Level 1 green light
Update on 01 April 2021:
While club teams received the go-ahead to return to play on Monday, 12 April, schools rugby will be able to resume with matches a little later, on Friday, 23 April.…
Open letter about the state of SA rugby
THE HEART OF A TRUE RUGBY SUPPORTER…
Private schools to test the waters first in 2021
Most private schools will start their school year on Monday 01 February 2021, while state schools are expected to return on 15 February 2021.…
Schools keen to keep the door open for rugby to return in 2021
South African high schools keen to keep the door open for rugby to return in 2021, but is it realistic?…
Like father like son – test rugby players
The Bledisloe Cup 2020 produced internationals debuts for All Blacks Blues players Caleb Clarke and Hoskins Sotutu. Both are sons of former test players. Here is a list of current players who’s fathers also played at the very top level.…
Two Saffas feature in Eddie Jones 2020 plans
Two South African born players David Ribbans (Somerset College) and Simon Kerrod (Pretoria Boys’ High School) have progressed from fairly humble beginnings as professionals in their home country to now be included amongst 12 uncapped players in England head coach Eddie Jones’ initial 28-man training squad ahead of a busy international window.…
Does anyone else hate the cross-kick?
I cannot stand the cross-kick. I thought an overkill of rolling maul tries would be top of my list of plays that do not impress me but now I’m convinced it’s the cross-kick.…
Two SA Schools players qualify for Scotland
Two former SA Schools backline players Jaco van Walt (Monument & SAS 2011) and Duhan van der Merwe (Outeniqua & SAS 2012/3) could soon be Scottish internationals. …
Italy, a land of unrealised rugby opportunity
The Federazione Italiana Rugby (F.I.R.) enjoyed one of their best results in what has been a pretty miserable test rugby history when they beat the Springboks 20-18 in Florence in 2016. A rare outstanding achievement put into perspective by the overall test losing record of played 15 lost 14 at an average losing score of 12-47 against South Africa.…
From “small” players to BIG stars
Two SA Sevens Blitzbokke have been honoured with places in the Dream Team of the Year at the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 Awards.…
SchoolSportLive reLive matches – 28/03/2020
reLIVE Fixtures
Join us for the second round of the reLIVE series as we show off a few scintillating schoolsportlive classics.…
When will the school academic year 2020 be lost for sure
With Coronavirus infections showing an upward trend in the Northern Hemisphere, concerns are growing that the period of isolation/quarantine/lockdown may well have to be measured in months as opposed to weeks. The knock-on effect is that one of the valid questions being posed is at what point in time will the 2020 South African school academic year be considered a write-off. …
SchoolSportLive – Relive
I’ve watched my fair share of virus outbreak movies and TV shows etc over the years. Amongst my favourites were the first three or so seasons of the Walking Dead and I am Legend. Right now I would really like to watch a movie called Contagion who offers a plot which is more realistic and relatable to our current situation scenario than many of the more popular productions which involved humans transforming into hostile creatures with unrecognisable characteristics. Anyway I don’t know if anyone envisaged the world grinding to a standstill like it’s about to do. All we can really do is try to stay healthy and stay positive. Doing their level best to keep things rolling on the entertainment side is SchoolSportLive with a few trips down recent memory lane starting this weekend with the offerings below.
Coronavirus puts schoolboy rugby festivals on ice
South African State President’s decree
Social distancing measures include:
Gathering of more than 100 people prohibited.
Celebrations of large national days cancelled.
Schools will be closed from Wednesday, 18 March and closed until after Easter weekend. To compensate mid-year school holidays will be shortened by a week.
Kearsney & Northwood get KZN underway
Kearsney and Northwood will be the highlight match as the KZN regular season 2020 gets off to a bit of a watered down start.…
The BBC reports on steroids in SA schoolboy rugby
An article that has been met with mixed emotions…
SARU to switch from u21 to u20 junior championship
SARU’s rash decision that came into effect in 2019, to scrap the under-19 junior Currie Cup and only support an under-21 competition, looks all set to be revised.…
My Preseason XV
Which players are on your radar coming into the 2020 schoolboy rugby season?…