Maritzburg College’s Festival for 150th
Maritzburg College will be celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2013. Plans for their rugby festival over Easter weekend are falling nicely into place.…
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Hilton vs Michaelhouse Preview
The Hilton-Michaelhouse derby is one of the best attended in the country. Despite being a little out of the way, the match often attracts huge crowds with talk about 15000 and more spectators not unusual at all. …
Kearsney look set to play Grey Bloem
Kearsney has been offered the opportunity to play Grey College in a curtain raiser to the Cheetahs vs Cardiff game scheduled to take place in Bloemfontein on 04 August 2012. It’s actually quite a privilege for Kearsney to have been invited to participate in this special fixture.…
KZN Age-Group Rankings 2012
Using the 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss scoring system and then separating teams on the same total by points difference, here are the results arrived at for the KZN 2nd XV, u16A, u15A and u14A age groups in 2012 for the 8 schools that competed against each other in strength vs strength matches:
(Warning: although this is very simplistic system, it is bound to be contentious, so reasonable suggests on how formula driven improvements can be made are welcomed and will be considered).…
Michaelhouse beats Kearsney
What a good advert for schoolboy rugby this game turned out to be. With so much at stake in the form of the winner being crowned the number one KZN team for the season, Michaelhouse and Kearsney would have been forgiven for playing conservative, minimal risk rugby. …
Westville to play 3rd term rugby
Westville has organised two home games against touring English Independent schools at the start of the third term.…
KZN u13 Craven Week Team
The under-13 Craven Week 2012 takes place at Grey College in Bloemfontein this year. The action begins on Monday, 25 June 2012.…
The 2012 KZN 1st XV Rankings
When it comes to ranking the top school teams in KZN, there are any number of ways to go about it. For the purposes of keeping it simple, a pretty fair system of awarding 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss has been used below.…
KZN Schoolboys take on Sharks Academy
The KwaZulu-Natal Craven Week and the Academy Week teams will get their first taste of action when they take on two Sharks Academy u19 Invitation teams at Kingspark on Monday, 18 June 2012 starting at 2:30pm.…
KZN Schools Craven Week prep setback
Saturday 16 June 2012 was the day meant to be set aside for an away trip to Mpumalanga to play the Pumas in a Craven Week warm-up game. Sadly this is not to be. The game had to be cancelled due to the unavailability of several selected players who still have school rugby commitments. As a result of the same obligations, a later trip to Bondedag has also been scratched.…
Northwood and Barry Wilson part ways
Love him or hate him, there is no getting around the fact that Barry Wilson has made a huge contribution to SBR in Durban over a few decades and deserves much respect for all he’s given back to the wonderful game.…
KZN Schools capping ceremony on 13/06/2012
The KZN u18 Schools players will enjoy a special privilege at Kings Park at 17h30 tonight when they are capped ahead of the prestigious Craven Week tournament that takes place in Port Elizabeth from 09-14 July 2012. Their first game up is on Day 1 against the always formidable Free State team.…
Michaelhouse and Kearsney battle it out for top spot in KZN
Michaelhouse and Kearsney meet up on the Meadows, Balgowan at 15h00 on Saturday 16 June 2012 in an unofficial final of sorts to decide the winners of KZN interschools season.…
Westville prepares for 2013 season
Westville will kick start their prep for the 2013 when the field a team called the Stayers XV consisting of current u17 and u16 players in their match against Stirling High School from East London on Saturday.…
Kearsney beats Westville
Kearsney College ended a six season losing streak against Highways neighbours Westville with a 20-3 victory in front of a full house on their Founders Day.…
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