Since I can no longer use the old prediction pool plugin, here’s an experimental prediction template for all 4 major Easter Festivals but you’ll need a newer version of MS Excel.
Click on the link to download the MS Excel file -> 2017 Festival Predictions
Fill in your name and email.
Enter your scores using the drop-down arrows.
You can either complete on a matchday by matchday basis or the entire 3 matchdays all in one go, just as long your email is received before 8:00 on the relevant matchday.
Email your completed, saved and attached file back to beet@schoolboyrugby.co.za
Any suggestions regarding a point scoring system would be great.
Wonderlike paasnaweek gewees. My geliefde Wit Bulle het onoorwonne geeindig (alhoewel ek glo hul gaan lelik sukkel oor die volgende 14 dae). PRG het die trots van Hilbrow net-net gewen. Framesby het mooi teruggekom en Nelspruit het balle gewys in hul laaste game.
HJS class of 2017 vs. Affies class of 2017 . HJS wen 4 uit 4 . Lets move on.
Manne wat is die voorspelde uitslae vir more.
@tzavosky: Lol!First score counts
Net-net wen vir Rooibulle, hulle het baie swak gespeel is seker ma di skool vakansie met amper geen oefening wat hulle vandag gevang het.
It is a bit late and I don’t know how the rain has changed conditions. Those who predict Jeppe’s death will be surprised over the Easter weekend.
Kearsney Fest
Kearsney by 3
Selborne by 15
Queen’s by 7
Monument by 17
Glenwood by 35
HTS Middelburg by 15
Kes Fest
Noordheuwel by 14
Ben Vorster by 7
Kingswood by 13
Eldoraigne by 15
Waterkloof by 15
Wynberg by 10
Jeppe by 3
SJC fEST
Helpmekaar by plenty
HJS Paarl BH by 50
Parktown will tie
Affies by 28
Paul Roos by 25
St John’s by 30
St Andrew’s by 20
Maritzburg College by 15
DHS by 13
Graeme by 6
SACS by 4
Grey HS by 10
I know they are late and I might be trolling some of the other Gauteng schools. But the blog has been so pleasant lately. Late stir up anarchy. Draws and loses for all my foes.
Kearsney overated
My money on The Spanners
Seems no-one gave the Donkeys a chance against Kearsney..They are no push-overs this year!
@Playa: So you say both Ben Vorster and Kingswood are going to win their feature. It sounds a bit like quantum mechanics to me!
@Playa: Gonna be a cracker of a festival
@Playa:
@Andre T: Daar sy! Hope it will be a cracker of a game. Thank goodness for SSL!
@Playa: Monument very beatable this year according to Die Ken
I’ll watch the game tomorrow and see for myself……..let the best man win
@Vleis: LOL! Predictions at the end of the day, I guess. Sometimes we make predictions while scratching our heads, and sometimes we make them hoping that we’re wrong (Dale vs Monument in my case
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Let the good times roll.
@Playa: Yep, if St Alban’s defence is up to scratch, I think they’ll win. They drew with BV in a pre-seaon game and, according to many, had the better of the territory and possiession away v a highly rated KES team, but were thwarted by great KES defence.
Normally, I’d back Saints to beat Graeme by plenty, as even the poor Saints team of 2016 beat Graeme; however, Greame’s very close result v Selborne a few weeks ago has me scratching my head!
@Wyvern: Without a score for each team on the excel you have a “void”. margin by 4 impossible for 4-0 result. :-) 14-10 is workable.
Kearsney by 4
EG Jansen by 27
Queen’s by 9
Monument by 6
Glenwood by 11
HTS Middelburg by 23
Noordheuwel by 12
Ben Vorster by 15
Eldoraigne by 8
Waterkloof by 3
KES by 7
Jeppe by 1
Helpmekaar by 38
HJS Paarl BH by 45
Parktown 13
Affies by 21
Paul Roos by 17
St John’s by 9
St Andrew’s by 5
Maritzburg College by 7
DHS by 11
St Stithians by 9
SACS by 16
Grey HS by 28
Kearsney by 7
EG Jansen by 15
Queen’s by 12
Monument by 18
Glenwood by 15
HTS Middelburg by 20
Noordheuwel by 9
Ben Vorster by 18
Eldoraigne by 25
Waterkloof by 5
KES by 7
Jeppe by 3
Helpmekaar by 32
HJS Paarl BH by 36
Parktown 3
Affies by 34
Paul Roos by 15
St John’s by 3
St Andrew’s by 14
Maritzburg College by 5
DHS by 28
St Stithians by 18
SACS by 20
Grey HS by 15
@Vleis: Brave calls on DHS and Graeme
Kearsney by 10
Selborne by 5
Queen’s by 1
Monument by 10
Glenwood by 20
HTS Middelburg by 15
Noordheuwel by 10
Ben Vorster by 13
Kingswood by 3
Eldoraigne by 5
Waterkloof by 5
KES by 10
Jeppe by 10
Helpmekaar by “Mismatch”
HJS Paarl BH by 40 (EOTT not as bad a bunch as you think)
Parktown by 15
Affies by 18
Paul Roos by 20
St John’s by 30
St Andrew’s by 20
Maritzburg College by 25
DHS by 3
Graeme by 3
SACS by 4
Grey HS by 10
The Michaelhouse team for the SACS game is as follows, this looks like the same side that beat Westville.
1.Odi Losaba
2.Mpho Mthethwa
3.Keynon Knox(Capt)
4.Luke Jonsson
5.Oliver Calvert-Evers
6.Christian Opperman
7.Nicholas Kershaw
8.Fraser Jones
9.Tom Price
10.William Glassock
11.Michael Gomes
12.Wesley Turkington(Vice-Capt)
13.Dane Fisher
14.Kuhle Khumalo
15.Liam England
16.Solomon Marx(sub)
17.Liam Friend(sub)
18.Ant Fleischer(sub)
19.Matthew Myers(sub)
20.Troy Nijland(sub)
21.William Norton(sub)
22.Thomas Rorich(sub)
23.Marco Parau(sub)
As per what CharlesZA has for his scoring of the matches, would it then not be easier to predict which team is to win and by how much? Instead of a score for each team. I guess if we do adopt that type of points scoring we could just put the winning margin in and leave the other team as 0.
@CharlesZA: I like that idea, my predictions are in
@beet: 2 points for correct result, 1 point for within 7 of result, 0.5 for within 14 of result and 1 point bonus if you get all 6 results at a festival correct?
My predictions for KES, Saints and St Johns:
Nories by 10 over Northwood
BV v Kingswood = draw
Eldos by 15 over Hudson
Klofies by 10 over Marlow
KES by 3 over Wynberg
Rondebosch by 15 over Jeppe
Helpies by 70 over SJC (Harare)
HJS by 80 over EOTT
NSW by 10 over Parktown
Affies by 15 over Hilton
Paul Roos by 14 over Nellies
SJC by 1 over Florida
St Andrew’s by 8 over St David’s
Maritzburg by 30 over Bennies
St Alban’s by 2 over DHS
Saints by 5 over Graeme
SACS by 6 over House
Grey by 7 over Ville
Thanks for the two tone jersey Beet?
@beet: i doubt the scores will be that high on day 1. Main squads will be rested for Saturdays games.
@beet Im glad to see that you are rating Noordheuwel so high. I dont think they will take it by 14 though, if that big centre of Northwood get some time with ball in hand he could keep Noordheuwel quite busy. They just came back from the “woestynfees” in Namibia where the team bonded very well, so hoping for maybe an upset or 2 at KES, but Id rather say they beat Northwood by 6.
@beet: Have you changed the Excel file to accommodate the 3rd day changes at KES? I’m away for the weekend and will try my luck without knowledge of the earlier games’ results!
Scoring system?
Here are my predictions for day 1:
Kearsney by 1
EG Jansen by 8
Queen’s by 7
Monument by 25
Glenwood by 18
HTS Middelburg by 7
Noordheuwel by 14
Ben Vorster by 13
Eldoraigne by 15
Waterkloof by 20
KES by 1
Rondebosch by 11
Helpmekaar by 94
HJS Paarl BH by 90
NSW Combined Sch by 5
Affies by 18
Paul Roos by 4
St John’s by 10
St Andrew’s by 16
Maritzburg College by 26
DHS by 20
St Stithians by 14
SACS by 7
Grey HS by 5