KZN issues slash no names: report backs
I just thought it was worthwhile to give a brief follow-up on 2 issues raised a few days back.…
Month: June 2013
Baby Boks team to face Wales at JWC 2013
The Baby Boks will face Wales under-20 in the first semi-final of the IRB Junior Rugby Championship being held in France. Kickoff is at 18:15 on Tuesday 18 June 2013. The winners of this game will meet the winners of the England versus New Zealand semi on 23 June. The second game will also be played later on the same evening at 20:45. Both matches will be televised on Supersport.…
KZN schools prepare to take on the Pumas & win 36-14
Updated. KZN Schools comes from 5-14 down at one stage to beat the Pumas 36-14 with a great second half performance. The Academy team drew 13-13, The KZNCD won and the KZN Grant Khomo team lost.
The three KZN Schools teams will make the trip to Mpumalanga to play the Pumas on Monday, 17 June 2013 as part of the first stages of their preparation for the various age-group weeks coming up during the July holidays.
For the Craven Week team this match should pose quite a challenge. Two highly rated schools, Nelspruit and HTS Middelburg form part of the Pumas region’s feeder system. …
Craven Week 2013: Valke team
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…
Craven Week 2013: Pumas team & Academy Week team
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.…
Kearsney beats Hilton 34-9
As part of a huge crowd, Kearsney Old Boys got to celebrate their Founders Day in style when their school ran out convincing 34-9 winners against Hilton in the end. Initially the visitors contributed well to an interesting and evenly contested first half. For 35-minutes and a bit more Hilton put up a brave resistance, did ever so well in the lineouts and employed their brand of kick-for-territory rugby that has severed them so well at there own Gilfillan home base. They closed out the half just one score behind at 9-15 without revealing anything of their own attacking strength out wide. This situation required a change of tactics by the hosts in the second half but once Kearsney started getting it right to have their big forwards running at the Hilton outside backs, the mismatches caused the visitors resistance to crumble and changed the completion of the game for good. …
What? Westville 50 College 10! On Goldstones!
Westville achieved a remarkable result on Goldstones. They arrived in good form and did the unexpected. On a ground that had been mostly unkind to Westville 1st XV’s over the years and facing a school which ‘Ville had last beaten in 2009 and against who they had a dismal overall head to head record of played 27 won 3, drew 2, lost 22;…
Baby Boks struggle to a 26-19 win against France
Eish! This was not a good performance. The Baby Boks did not play as a team, had very little structure and made some fundamental errors but were still good enough to beat a very spirited French team 26-19. The game excited the home crowd and the French team fed off this passion but it was very much a start stop affair with tons of basic errors and with just bits of individual brilliance rather than teamwork ruling the day. …
Results – week ending 15 June 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrews | 46 | 23 | Kingswood | K-DAY | |
| M. College | 10 | 50 | Westville | ||
| Kearsney | 34 | 9 | Hilton | Founders Day | |
| George Campbell | 13 | 12 | Glenwood | ||
| – | – | Cancelled by Clifton | |||
| Clifton | 17 | 22 | St Charles | ||
| Michaelhouse | 45 | 13 | DHS | ||
| Hudson Park | 10 | 21 | Dale | ||
| Nico Malan | 52 | 10 | Dirkie Uys | ||
| Union | 13 | 10 | Graeme | ||
| Selborne | 57 | 0 | Grens | ||
| Pretoria BH | 70 | 14 | St Johns | ||
| St Davids | 37 | 39 | St Albans | ||
| St Benedicts | 32 | 12 | St Stithians | ||
| Menlopark | 34 | 17 | Montana | ||
| Centurion | 33 | 8 | Eldoraigne | ||
| Kempton Park | 49 | 27 | Vereeniging Gim |
Baby Boks play France at JWC2013
The Baby Bok team to play France in the final round of pool games at 20:45 on Thursday, 13 June 2013 has been announced. The big news is that SA’s star player Handre Pollard has been moved back to flyhalf after a miserable outing at inside centre against England. Pollard played flyhalf for the victorious JWC team of 2012, while he was still a schoolboy at Paarl Gymnasium.…
DPHS National Rugby Festival
Durban Preparatory High School (DPHS) or Prep as they are so often called is hosting a sizable primary schools rugby festival at their grounds in Morningside beginning next Thursday, 13 June 2013. …
Dr Brendan Venter is the new Sharks Director of Rugby
Former Springbok centre Brendan Venter will take up the position of Director of Rugby just as soon as he concludes his business with the Baby Bokke at the under-20 Junior World Champs in France.…
BHP Top 50 – week ending 08 June 2013
A formula-driven ranking system…
KZN: no names, just off the field issues
Here are some of the things that came up in the last few weeks which might make for interesting discussion. There are no guarantees that names might come into it and cause certain individuals to respond in set ways but for now there is opportunity to look past the personal attachments and discuss just the principles.…
K-day 2013 about to hit Grahamstown
It was May 1898 and the Kingswood College Rugby Union Football team wandered across the Valley to Lower Field and met the St Andrews College team in the first of what was to become one of the most enduring school rugby matches in South Africa. While this was the first time the two schools’ 1st XV’s in fact met it was not the first time that they had played each other as in 1896 The St Andrews 2nd XV played the Kingswood 1st XV and this match was drawn. The first 1st XV’s outing was won 6-3 by St Andrews and this match has been won more often than not by St Andrews. This has become particularly noticeable from the middle of the last century up to the present. The two schools should probably not be playing each other as the number of boys at each actually put them into different classifications but the traditions and camaraderie of this fixture are what have kept it alive. The week leading up to, and the weekend itself, are what create the vibe and atmosphere which is about far more than just a rugby match.…
SBR tables by region
Same scoring system as the Tjampions League but this time only looking at how the schools performed against other schools from their respective regions and as listed on the tables below. …
Tjampions League – week ending 08 June 2013
This week the Tjamps League has been expanded to 41 schools. All are shown on the table below so one can see that it was only games between the 41 schools that count. Match points (MP) = 4 for a win, 2 for a draw. Bonus point (BP) = 1 to either winner if the difference in score is 10 points or greater or the loser if the difference in score is less than 10.…
Baby Boks beat England 31-24 at under-20 JWC
The South African under-20 team moved one big step closer to a place in IRB Junior World Cup semi-finals with a vital 31-24 win against England in a Pool A match. This was mainly due to a very good start which saw the Baby Boks playing with good continuity and flair.…
Baby Boks must do or die vs England in IRB JWC
Starting at 16h45 on Sunday, 09 June the SA under-20 team faces a critical challenge at the IRB Junior World Champions in France when they play England. Although it’s defined as a pool match, it’s is a knockout game of sorts, from which the winners placing themselves in a very strong position to advance to the semi-finals and the losers facing the distinct probability of being eliminated from the first place chase.…
Results – week ending 08 June 2013
| SCHOOL | SCHOOL | NOTES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishops | 7 | 22 | Rondebosch | Premier Interschools Match – on TV | |
| Hugenote | 48 | 5 | Schoonspruit | ||
| Paarl BH | 24 | 13 | Boland Landbou | ||
| Paarl Gim | 17 | 17 | Oakdale | ||
| SACS | 7 | 15 | Wynberg | ||
| Stellenberg | 18 | 23 | Tygerberg | ||
| Michaelhouse | 37 | 10 | St Charles | ||
| Called off. May be played on 20/06/2013 | |||||
| Northwood | 11 | 33 | Glenwood | ||
| Westville | 64 | 7 | George Campbell | ||
| DHS | 3 | 23 | Hilton | ||
| Ithembehle | 7 | 75 | Grey HS | ||
| Stirling | 7 | 50 | Queens | ||
| Selborne | 17 | 17 | St Andrews | ||
| Cambridge | 18 | 21 | Dale | ||
| Kingswood | 23 | 22 | Muir | ||
| Graeme | 71 | 3 | Woodridge | ||
| St Johns | 22 | 53 | KES | ||
| Waterkloof | 71 | 5 | Eldoraigne | ||
| St Benedicts | 24 | 45 | Jeppe | ||
| Pretoria BH | 35 | 6 | St Albans | ||
| Helpies withdrew | |||||
| Monnas | Florida | ||||
| EG Jansen | 103 | 17 | Die Anker | ||
| Ben Vorster | 47 | 16 | Nylstroom | ||
| Centurion | 25 | 20 | Montana | ||
| HTS Middelburg | 38 | 12 | Middelburg | ||
Craven Week 2013: Golden Lions team & Academy Week team
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.…
Wynland Skole vs Southern Suburbs Schools 2009-2013
UPDATED. Here compliments of BHP is a factual analysis table of the results achieved by the four Wynland Skole namely Boland Landbou (BL), Paarl Gymnasium (Gim), Paul Roos (PRG) and Paarl Boys High (HJS) in their matches against the four Cape Town Southern Suburbs schools of Bishops, Rondebosch, SACS and Wynberg. It goes so way to explaining why the Wynland boys seem to dominate WP age-group team selections every season.…
Would the real KZN Tier-1 No.1 please stand up!
Updated. Time is running out to determine the KZN Tier -1 no.1 team for 2013. Matters have not been helped by bad weather and disagreements…
Craven Week 2013: Free State team almost finalised
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. …