Super Rugby 2014 begins
Saturday, 15 February 2014:
17h10 : Cheetahs vs Lions , 19h10 : Sharks vs Bulls…
Month: February 2014
Port Natal Night Series: Porties vs DHS in the “semi-final”
A big crowd is expected to descend on Port Natal’s floodlight main rugby field for the most crucial game of this year’s Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf Night Series, where host Port Natal and newcomers DHS will square off in the main game at 20h00 on 14 February to decide who plays the Glenwood Invitational XV in final.…
Maritzburg College’s school rugby records 1940 – 2013
In terms of overall record, Maritzburg College is by a considerable distance the best performing rugby school in KwaZulu-Natal. With the help of the excellent records kept by former teacher Tony Wiblin, below are some stats per decade dating back to the 1940’s. …
SBR Super Rugby Superbru
Pool: Schoolboyrugby.co.za
Pool code: waftstir
Sorry everyone. This is late shout out but please join our pool. Unless your name is Bryce o’Grady (BOG) or André T(errible), chances are good you won’t occupy bottom spot. Thanks.
Grant Hermanus is the Craven Week Player of the Year 2013
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.…
Rating the Grey College 1st XV’s from 1972 – 2013
With the aid of Grey College results available on Nelio’s website rugby15.co.za (link: http://www.rugby15.co.za/2011/06/grey-college-1st-xv-school-rugby-historic-results-overview-from-1894-2011/ ) I’ve compiled two tables ranking their 1st XV’s from 1992 – 2013 (5-point try era) and 1972 – 1991 (4-point try era).…
Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival – media release
Now in its seventh year, the 2014 Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival is certain to attract capacity crowds following the announcement that the event has again attracted many of SA’s top rugby-playing schools.
All 12 participating schools are renowned for their rugby pedigree and were widely regarded as being amongst the top teams in the country at the end of last season.Their participation reinforces the prestigious status of the Kearsney College festival. …
Port Natal Night Series 2014
Northwood may not be returning to defend their title but the well organised and popular Port Natal Night Series looks like it will be bigger and better than ever before. DHS steps in to fill the gap left by Northwood and for the first time Glenwood will have two invitation teams (A&B) participating at the event. …
18-year old prop Thomas du Toit makes the Sharks Super Rugby squad
Former HJS Paarl Boys High School and SA Schools loose-head prop Thomas du Toit just got his matric results a few weeks ago and now he’s one step away from engaging in scrums against most of the very best front-row players that the Southern Hemisphere rugby has to offer. …
Ranking the Affies 1st XV’s 1994-2013
This interesting table showing how the Affies 1st XV of the last 20 seasons matched up against each other purely in terms of their final record of games played, games won and tries scored is compliments of the excellent website: www.affiesrugby.co.za which is a must visit site for all Affies old boys and supporters.…
Kearsney’s Medworth rugby stand upgraded
Here is some good news for those attending the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival during April and actually also for anyone who like myself who might have once or twice in the past struggled to find a seat on Kearsney’s jam-packed main stand during one of the big KZN inter-schools derby days. The Kearsney main stand, arguably the best school rugby stand in KwaZulu-Natal is being extended. The improvements will increase seating capacity as well the covered area.…
Varsity Young Guns kicks off for under-20s
The under-20 version of the Varsity Cup gets underway on Monday, 10 February with UJ taking in NMMU and the Marties hosting traditional rivals the Ikeys. Both games act as certain-raisers to the Varsity Cup main games for the seniors.…
Westville lands a top schoolboy rugby coach
Last year when Grey High School Old Boy, Maths teacher and top rated rugby coach Dean Carelse decided the time was right for a change and personal growth, he made KwaZulu-Natal his destination of choice. His services were immediate sort after by several top schools in Durban. Of the options available to him, it was Westville that just touched a chord …
Night Series: Port Natal gives the Glenwood Inv XV a tough test
Hosts Port Natal gave the Glenwood Invitation XV a very good run for their money during the Round-3 of the Port Natal Night Series (sponsored by the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf). The visitors scored 8 unanswered points in the last few minutes of the game to eventually run out 15-6 winners in the end but they were pushed all the way by a very determined White Knights team.…
Grey College’s powerhouse rugby results
A Wildeklawer match-up between the Grey College, the best South African boys only high school at rugby and Paarl Gymnasium, the best South African co-ed rugby school looks set to be made official next week. This effectively means that Grey will compete for a powerhouse grand slam for only the fourth time in their history, with 2010,2011 and 2012 being the three previous seasons in during which they took on all four fellow powerhouses namely Affies, HJS Paarl Boys High, Monument, Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos. …
Massive corruption in South African schools
Thursday, 06 February 2014. A Corruption Watch report revealed there is evidence of large-scale corruption in schools.
According to the Corruption Watch organisation 12% of reports on all kinds of corruption since it started in 2012 related to alleged corruption in schools.…
Schoolboy rugby should promote poaching
This article about the situation in Australia was written by Charlie Drayton for the website TheRoar.com.au
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SA u18 Sevens squad for African Youth Games
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) will be fielding a South African U18 Sevens team. The team will compete in the African Youth Games on 22 – 31 May 2014 in Gabarone, Botswana.
A complete list of players identified for possible selection has been released on Thursday 06 February 2014.…
Port Natal Night Series 2014: Matchday 2 reports
The annual Port Natal Night Series sponsored by the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf is in full swing. Three entertaining rugby matches were contested on Tuesday night, matchday 2 of the tournament.…
Varsity Cup: Sharks AcadeNMMUy beats the Maties
| Home | Away | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NMMU | 45 | 29 | Maties |
| UCT Ikeys | 24 | 47 | NWU-Pukke |
| UP-Tuks | 18 | 18 | UJ |
| UFS Shimlas | 31 | 15 | Wits |
Wow the UKZN has never been part the Varsity Cup proper but the NMMU team that beat Maties 45-29 yesterday was about as close to a KZN / Sharks region representative team as supporters from the region could hope to get.…
New scoreboard for Maritzburg College’s famous Goldstones ground
A brand new electronic cricket/rugby scoreboard on Goldstones is one of many sports related improvements that Maritzburg College has made in recent months. The scoreboard and the construction to support it was funded from donations from four of Maritzburg College Old Boy branches, namely Harding, Zululand, Midlands and Tugela, plus a contribution from the MCOB Association itself, totalling R100,000.…
Noord-Suid Skolerugby Toernooi 2014
| DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue.01Apr | Menlopark | 98 | 00 | Harrismith |
| Tue.01Apr | Waterkloof | 10 | 24 | Paarl Gim |
| Fri.04Apr | Waterkloof | 94 | 00 | Harrismith |
| Fri.04Apr | Menlopark | 22 | 18 | Paarl Gim |
As many of you who follow the Blog already know, former Springbok Pieter Rossouw with the sponsorship backing of Barloworld has been trying to get a new Noord-Suid tournament organised.
In an idea world if this tournament consisted of just the top six schools it would have seen the best that Pretoria has to offer namely Affies, Waterkloof and right here right now Garsfontein come up against the top feeder schools of the WPRU, which would definitely be Paarl Gim, Paarl Boys High and Paul Roos.…
Port Natal Night Series: Port Natal beats Pinetown 22-0
Port Natal got their Night Series campaign off to a good start with a convincing win 22-0 win against Pinetown. However as a result of the final whistle being blown early, they missed out on the opportunity to earn a 4-try bonus point which could prove costly later in the series.…
Port Natal Night Series: DHS beats George Campbell 24-7
It was predicted that this DHS versus George Campbell game would be the match of the opening evening of the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryk Night Series at Port Natal Hoerskool because it pitted two KZN top schools against each other and going by their results against shared opponents over the last few years everything pointed to them being fairly closely matched.…