Pre-arranged fixtures added
| YOUTH WEEK | DATE | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| u13 Craven Week | 30 Jun – 4 Jul | Durban |
| u16 Grant Khomo Week | 07 – 10 Jul | Pretoria |
| u18 Academy Week | 07 – 10 Jul | Worcester |
| u18 Craven Week | 14 – 19 Jul | Middelburg |
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The final trials schedule is pretty much the same as every year. The only difference being that the actual trial teams have not been selected yet. A group of 113 players have been invited and will make up the 6 trials team on the day. From this group the selectors will choice a Craven Week, an Academy Week and a Country Districts team (for Academy Week).…
Four under-16 trial teams have been chosen to play on the Woodburn Stadium, Pietermaritzburg outer field on Tuesday 27 May 2014. …
Schedule of trials, training camps and warm-up matches for 2014 under-18 Craven Week, under-18 Academy Week and under-16 Grant Khomo Week.…
Western Province under-18 and Paarl Gymnasium star backline player Grant Hermanus, who played at a consistently high level throughout the season and stood out during the Craven Week final has been named as the Craven Week player of the Year for 2013 at the SARU awards.…
I asked Old Grey blogger “BOG” to help out with arguably the most difficult to select Craven Week team of the last ten years of them all – the Free State team. With so much quality being churned out by Grey College annually, to compare and then choose one player over another per position is subjective. Here is BOG’s personal choice with a few footnotes on the method he adopted:…
He’s quite possibly the most well-known SBR blogger in the country, so when it came to finding someone to share his opinion on the Kwazulu-Natal Craven Week team from representatives of the last 10 years, who better to ask than KZN’s very own Grasshopper. Here are his picks:…
I enlisted the help of Queens College Class of 2011 old boy Ludz to compile a Border team made up of players that had represented the union at Craven Week over the last 10 seasons. Here’s what he came up with: …
Young Muzi (twitter: @muzimsimango) often gets asked if he is a rugby agent. I asked him to pick his Bulls Craven Week team from the last 10 seasons : 2004-2013. …
Upon request blogger and Western Cape school rugby knowledgeable BuffelsCM was kind enough to help out by providing his Western Province Craven Week team for the 10 seasons from 2004 – 2013:…
| DAY | DATE | TIME | TEAM | TEAM | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08/07/2013 | 08h30 | Griquas | 17 | 35 | Zimbabwe |
| 1 | 08/07/2013 | 10h00 | Border | 38 | 20 | Namibia |
| 1 | 08/07/2013 | 11h30 | WP | 40 | 24 | Pumas |
| 1 | 08/07/2013 | 13h00 | Blue Bulls | 46 | 22 | KZN |
| 1 | 08/07/2013 | 15h30 | Limpopo Blue Bulls | 26 | 31 | Boland |
| 2 | 09/07/2013 | 9h30 | EP CD | 31 | 10 | Leopards |
| 2 | 09/07/2013 | 11h00 | Griquas CD | 51 | 0 | Border CD |
| 2 | 09/07/2013 | 12h30 | Valke | 37 | 37 | Griffons |
| 2 | 09/07/2013 | 14h00 | Lions | 34 | 27 | SWD |
| 2 | 09/07/2013 | 15h30 | EP | 21 | 32 | Free State |
| 3 | 10/07/2013 | 09h30 | Namibia | 27 | 10 | Griquas |
| 3 | 10/07/2013 | 11h00 | Limpopo | 5 | 43 | Zimbabwe |
| 3 | 10/07/2013 | 12h30 | Border | 39 | 19 | Boland |
| 3 | 10/07/2013 | 14h00 | KZN | 18 | 40 | Pumas |
| 3 | 10/07/2013 | 15h30 | Blue Bulls | 6 | 30 | WP |
| 4 | 11/07/2013 | 09h30 | Leopards | 64 | 0 | Border CD |
| 4 | 11/07/2013 | 11h00 | Valke | 44 | 24 | Griquas CD |
| 4 | 11/07/2013 | 12h30 | Griffons | 26 | 20 | EPCD |
| 4 | 11/07/2013 | 14h00 | EP | 14 | 40 | SWD |
| 4 | 11/07/2013 | 15h30 | Free State | 19 | 20 | Golden Lions |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 09h15 | Zimbabwe | 10 | 33 | Namibia |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 09h15 | Limpopo Blue Bulls | 36 | 39 | Eastern Province CD |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 09h15 | Border CD | 5 | 94 | Griquas |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 10h45 | Border | 14 | 77 | KwaZulu Natal |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 10h45 | Griffons | 34 | 27 | Boland |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 10h45 | Griquas CD | 17 | 34 | Leopards |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 12h15 | Blue Bulls | 29 | 37 | SWD |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 12h15 | Eastern Province | 29 | 18 | Valke |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 13h45 | Free State | 22 | 25 | Pumas |
| 5 | 13/07/2013 | 15h15 | Western Province | 45 | 29 | Golden Lions |
Border Schools team has been announced. A blend of the three region’s powerhouses Selborne (9), Queens (7) and Dale (4) dominates the Craven Week selections. The Cambridge hooker does well to make the starting line-up and there is a Stirling prop on the bench as well.…
The Valke is one of the smaller regions and they aren’t always able to match the bigger unions at Craven Week. This year may be different though. Noordvaal rugby in general has looked very strong during 2013 and making a huge contribution to this strength by putting out competitive 1st XV’s are the likes of EG Jansen, Kempton Park and Transvalia…
It doesn’t come as that much of a surprise that the Pumas Craven Week team for 2013 is comprised mainly of boys from Nelspruit and HTS Middelburg.…
The Golden Lions under-18 teams have the usual Monnas flavour about them. 15 out of 44 come from the Krugersdorp school, with 9 of those picks being Craven Week players. Jeppe picked up a decent reward for their above average season to date with 8 players. Florida have had two relatively weak 1st XV’s in a row now but still managed to be well represented again this year with 8 players as well.…
Free State are in the process of finalising their Craven Week team. They named a fairly predictable blend of 13 Grey College and 9 HTS Louis Botha players for a trial match against the Griffons. The squad is very much along the lines of the quota system in place for Craven Week which stipulates that each team must have a minimum of 9 Previously Disadvantaged Individuals (PDI) in their squad of 22 with no fewer than 5 required to be in the starting line-up and on the field at all times. …
The Craven Week match-day 1 and 2 fixtures are not quite what the doctor ordered. It was anticipated that the Bulls and Western Province would be kept apart, to set up the potential unofficial final that viewers were robbed of in 2012. …
A few people might be unsure what to make of this but effectively two more Paarl Boys High players have been called up to replace injured Craven Week players JD Schickerling and Ryan Oosthuizen (both Paarl Gim). …
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