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Which players are on your radar coming into the 2020 schoolboy rugby season?…

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Spare a thought for the SA Sevens organisers. Their best efforts to create something worthwhile for the under-18  national players has instead turned into a bit of a nightmare as a result of the Elite Player Development camp (EPD) being given the green light to take preference over national Sevens players.…

A headmaster’s job is often underrated. Successful schools on the right track and/or improving more often than owe a great deal of that accomplishment to having a really really good headmaster at the helm. …

World Rugby’s top international accreditation…

Join Schoolboyrugby.co.za, my Super Rugby Predictor league on @Superbru! You can find my pool here:

https://www.superbru.com/superrugby/pool.php?p=12203669

or by downloading the Superbru app and searching for the pool with code:

dabslath…

IEB’s  St John’s College produced killer matric results to top the pile in 2019 with a bit of daylight between themselves and second on the list.

Once again Bishops (private) and in particular Rondebosch (state) produced outstanding results, nearly achieving 100% university pass rates from the NSC.

Last year’s top dogs, Kearsney had to make do with fourth spot.…

By Hooit

The start of a new season also brings new opportunities for SBR Bloggers.…

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A breaking news article about a fairly high profile school rugby coach having signed on the dotted line to head up the rugby programme of a rising Cape Town Northern suburbs high school, also brought into play a suggestion that the said coach was set to be the latest in his school aligned profession to earn in excess of R1 million per annum and therefore join an exclusive Millionaires’ Club.…

Press Release from Carl Fabian of www.ruggas.co.za:

A dream of many schoolboy rugby supporters is about to come true. Some of the top rugby playing schools and major role players came together during the past few months to negotiate the birth of arguably the most competitive schoolboy rugby challenge in the world.

• Garsfontein Hoërskool,
• Grey College,
• Hoër Jongenskool Paarl (Paarl Boishaai),
• Monument Hoërskool,
• Paarl Gimnasium and
• Paul Roos Gymnasium

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Hastings Boys’ High School of the Hurricanes may have only finished in second place in their own regional (Super 8) round robin regular season and then been beaten in competition final but the wildcard like route proved good enough for them. When push came to shove they produced the perfect record and claimed the biggest price in New Zealand schoolboy rugby – the Barbarian Cup. Although controversial poachers St Kentigern’s were eliminated from the main title race by eventual boys’ school runners-up Kings College of Auckland, St Kent’s did go on to lift the Co-ed Cup in 2019.…

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The Marius Schoeman schools festival incorporates three separate Sevens tournaments for the u17, u15 and u12 age-groups and takes place on Friday 06 September and Saturday 07 September 2019 at Paarl Gymnasium.

Live Streaming

 

Wedstryde op die A-veld sal REGSTREEKS uitgesaai word via die volgende skakels:

 

Donderdag

19:20 – 21:40

 

Vrydag

15:00 – 21:40

 

Saterdag

09:00 – 16:00

 

https://www.facebook.com/MSsevens/

 

https://www.facebook.com/Marius-Schoeman-840533559426872/

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Several school rugby coaching changes have caught the social media’s attention.…

Hi all

The 2019 regular season is past tense!

I thought for a change it would be nice to document the 50 or so most season defining events/matches/characters of 2019. It would therefore include results on the field and things that happened off it as well and can even extend to the comments made here by specific bloggers. I have attached the results that I recorded for 2019 in a PDF file to help the memory bank along.

2019 SBR Results

If anyone is interested in making a contribution via comment or email ([email protected]) please do. I will blog the data below.…

#	School	Year	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	PD/Game
1	Grey College	2007	15	15	0	0	828	141	687	45.8
2	Grey College	2008	15	15	0	0	624	168	456	30.4
3	Paarl Gim	2008	22	22	0	0	863	224	639	29.0
4	Grey College	2010	17	17	0	0	714	186	528	31.1
5	Grey College	2011	19	17	2	0	752	216	536	28.2
6	Affies	2013	14	14	0	0	581	191	390	27.9
7	Paarl Gim	2013	22	21	1	0	819	231	588	26.7
8	HJS Paarl BH	2015	19	19	0	0	556	225	331	17.4
9	HJS Paarl BH	2016	18	18	0	0	652	238	414	23.0
10	HJS Paarl BH*	2017	15	15	0	0	609	220	414	27.6
11	Glenwood	2018	17	16	1	0	748	202	546	32.1
12	Grey College	2018	13	12	1	0	612	241	371	28.5
13	Grey College	2019	17	17	0	0	909	321	588	34.6
	* lost 1 NZ tour game

Team Lists…

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I read Stefan Terblanche’s interesting article on SARugbyMag much earlier today.…

This year’s Noodelike Bondedag seems a little low key but offers attendees a feast of good under-18 match-ups.…

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Recently a schoolboy rugby player from the Free State was mentioned in connection with a National Football League (NFL) opportunity. I received an email from a knowledgeable person who had done quite a bit of research on the topic. Here are excerpt from his email:…

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For the first time in many years, SuperSport will not be live broadcasting a day of Wildeklawer rugby. DigiTV have been offered that opportunity to fill this void. The online streaming company will livestream both match days of 02 and 04 May 2019. However if the current Kingswood Jubilee Festival is anything to go by, then some serious work is needed to improve reliability.…

It’s been part of the Premier Interschool package for a while but now that the Man of the Match is receiving a cash reward for his efforts, it’s raised a few eyebrows.…

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Here’s a list of the known 1st XV players who are related to fairly well-known sportsmen of the past/present.…

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