There are 2 Grogper Cup games on this weekend. With Gauteng leading 6-3, KZN cannot afford anymore slip ups. KZN has to win the remaining 4 games to clinch a title in which the chase has been made a lot more difficult by the improvement in form of St Alban’s as well as the struggles of St Charles and DHS who lost to St David’s and Parktown respectively along the way.…
The Bulls have selected 4 under-16 teams to play against the Pumas on Tuesday 21 May as part of trials for Grant Khomo Week.…
The Bulls have named 6 trial teams to play the Pumas on Monday 20 May 2013.…
The Bulls have named two under-18 teams to take on their Lions counterparts next Tuesday at Loftus, as part of selection process and preparations for the Craven Week and Academy Weeks for 2013. Of the 30 starters selected 14 have Bulls under-18 representation experience brought forward from 2012. …
Grey College against Affies is one of the must watch games if the opportunity presents itself and it has: Saturday, 19h15 on Supersport 1 if you’re not fortune enough to be there live.…
NuPower TUKS for 2013 comes to an exciting end on Saturday at the LC de Villiers Stadium (University of Pretoria sports campus). The main game is the much anticipated match-up between two of the best school rugby 1st XV’s in South Africa this season. Finalists HTS Middelburg and Nelspruit, the two Mpumalanga powerhouses both have outstanding records to date and are worthy of their places in the main event. It looks like it will be a titanic battle to decide who gets crowned the NuPower TUKS champions for 2013.…
After Gauteng raced into a 4-0 lead thanks to outstanding efforts by St Davids and St Albans, KZN’s Northwood spearheaded by their frontrow trio put a spirited fightback to come from 11-3 down at home to beat a gutsy St Benedicts team. Westville backed up this first win in the compo with a very meaningful home result of their own against a strong Pretoria Boys High outfit. At 4-2 and with many feeling that the tail end of this compo will favour the KZN schools, it makes this weekend’s two games tie-breakers of sorts. …
The NuPower-Tuks semi-final playoffs will take place this Saturday at the LC de Villiers Stadium, University of Pretoria on Saturday 27 April 2013. Here is the full schedule of games from under-14 to 1st XV.…
The schools of Mike Fennell past and present have their work cut out if they want to achieve the desired results against strong midweek opposition.
Fennell the former headmaster and an old boy of KES took up the post of CEO at DHS earlier this year. On Wednesday KES are away to Affies, while DHS makes the trip up to Pietermaritzburg to face College.…
Westville produced their best result of 2013 when they beat a strong Pretoria Boys High 1st XV 22-17 on Bowdens 2, alongside their main field.…
Geskryf deur Johann van Tonder
Argument dat ‘n skool ‘n tradisionele rugbyskool is, is op eierdoppe gebou. Die onderstaande statistieke oor die wenners van die administrateursbeker/Direkteurstrofee/Beeldtrofee toon hoe tye verander het. Voorheen “tradisionele” rugbyskole verdwyn, en nuwe word gebore. Die lewe verander en mens moet aanpas.…
The third and final round of NuPower-Tuks pool matches will be played this weekend. In terms of the new Super-16 format, only the top team from each group progresses to the knock-out semi-final.…
KZN teams College and Northwood put in spirited performances against difficult opponents in the form of Pretoria Boys High and Jeppe over the weekend. However 2 more loses, now means that the Gauteng boys have a 4-0 lead with 8 to play. KZN look like they are going to need a European Ryder Cup team like comeback to win this one.…
Edited. Okay so your probably wondering what this is all about. Very simple, KZN schools versus English medium Gauteng Schools, eleven games, one on one with the aim to assign all-important bragging rights at the end of the season to the region that wins the most games.…
Enlisting the help of numerous bloggers from around the country that actively follow schoolboy rugby in South Africa, a list was compiled of the top 20 Easter festival matches that will be taking place over the next few days.
It was unanimously decided that the Grey College versus Outeniqua game to be played at the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival (KERF) on Monday, 01 April 2013, is going to be by far and away the biggest game of them all. …
It’s a really cool initiative by the organisers of the NWU-Puk Skouspel. Every year they select a team of stand out players from the schools that participate in the tournament. This year’s team turned out to be a blend of talent from all around the country.
Latest: Hanro Liebenberg (Drostdy) is named player of the tournament, Dimitrio Tieties (Noord-Kaap) is the top backline player and Ox Nche (louis Botha) is the top forward.…
Glenwood and Garsfontein have both had to deal with off the field pre-season dramas involving schools from their respective regions this year. With those matters now put to bed all the attention will be placed firmly back where it belongs: on the field of play. The two schools will meet in the main game on Thursday, 21 March 2013 being Day-1 of this year’s NWU-Pukke Skouspel being held in Potchefstroom.
Match day-1 fixtures:
| TIME | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12h50 | Potch Gim | 15 | 35 | Louis Botha |
| 14h15 | Klerksdorp | 19 | 24 | Potch Volkskool |
| 15h40 | HTS Drostdy | 22 | 27 | Transvalia |
| 17h05 | Rustenburg | 14 | 27 | Framesby |
| 18h30 | Noord-Kaap | 38 | 15 | Florida |
| 19h55 | Garsfontein | 48 | 26 | Glenwood |
Affies has named there 1st and 2nd XV’s for their match against Diamantveld in Kimberley this Saturday.…
The pool matches of the Nupower-Tuks series begins on Saturday 09 March 2013. 16 Noord-Vaal schools are competing for the title. Split into 4 pools of 4 teams each, each school will play the other 3 schools in their pool with the best 2 schools in each pool advancing to the quarter-finals knockout stage.…
Grey College defeated Voortrekker (Bethlehem) 46-5 at the massive Fichardtpark Sports Day in Bloemfontein. The event featured no fewer that 50 school rugby teams.…
The King Edward VII Easter Rugby Festival is arguable the best attended school rugby festival in the country.
This year apart from the hosts KES, the big attraction team is bound to be Garsfontein who has seen a big improvement in their rugby and results in recent times. Centurion also comes off a very good 2012 season and will be hoping to build on that success. Marlow, Menlopark and Eldoraigne rank nationally amongst the unknown quanities and are capable of producing good results while Hentie Cilliers has been a good supply line to the Griffons Craven Week and Academy Week causes over the years.
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu.28Mar | Garsfontein | 106 | 07 | Golden Lions Inv |
| Thu.28Mar | KES | 40 | 12 | Hudson Park |
| Thu.28Mar | Parktown | 10 | 12 | Trinityhouse |
| Thu.28Mar | Marlow | 22 | 39 | Centurion |
| Thu.28Mar | Eldoraigne | 22 | 20 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Thu.28Mar | Menlopark | 36 | 03 | Lichtenburg |
| Sat.30Mar | Golden Lions Inv | 00 | 89 | Centurion |
| Sat.30Mar | Lichtenburg | 00 | 80 | Garsfontein |
| Sat.30Mar | Menlopark | 51 | 24 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Sat.30Mar | Trinityhouse | 16 | 28 | Eldoraigne |
| Sat.30Mar | Parktown | 32 | 22 | Hudson Park |
| Sat.30Mar | Marlow | 20 | 16 | KES |
| Mon.01Apr | Eldoraigne | 36 | 05 | Hudson Park |
| Mon.01Apr | Menlopark | 39 | 44 | Marlow |
| Mon.01Apr | Lichtenburg | 28 | 41 | Centurion |
| Mon.01Apr | Golden Lions Inv | 00 | 77 | Hentie Cilliers |
| Mon.01Apr | Parktown | 05 | 109 | Garsfontein |
| Mon.01Apr | KES | 24 | 35 | Trinityhouse |
Grey College has selected its 1st XV consisting of 23-player squad for the opening game against Voortrekker in Bethlehem on 02 March 2013. The talented team contains a number of players that did duty in 2012. All-in-all 17 Grade-12 students and 6 Grade-11’s make for a very well balanced squad however only one of the Grade-11’s namely flyhalf Michael Andrade will start the game.…
In the latest article on Stoopstat.co.za entitled “Player Poaching, Same Old Story Slightly New Cast”, the second last paragraph points to an unfortunate development in Pretoria:…
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