This news came as a major surprise! Grey College’s u17 English first-language loose forward, Steven Muller, is now a pupil at Paarl Boys’ High following his father’s relocation to Cape Town for work. Muller, who already has several 1st XV caps to his name, captained Grey’s U14A, U15A and U16A teams, and was among the frontrunners to lead the Grey College First XV in 2026. He was also expected to play a key role in other leadership capacities at the Bloemfontein-based future Springbok development hub.
As a result of his departure, the Free State u18 Academy Week team will have to find a suitable replacement for the provincial youth week event.
I will not make any further comments in this regard. I wish the young man well – by all accounts he is a fantastic young man and any school will be lucky to have him.
@Snelvuur (Comment #39)
True, but appearances can be deceiving. And also phonetics, it does not refer to an unpleasant vertically challenged person.
@Rainier (Comment #42)
What misinformation campaign and run by whom? All we know is what is in the article above..The rest are just speculations and I have not heard anything official from the school either! The only rumour spreading happens on this here blog from un-informed people who questions the motives of the move without actual facts or knowledge.
@Rainier (Comment #41)
Mr Muller probably had a great game on 10 May and spontaneously decided to call Brug Street home.
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #40)
It’s not the move, it’s the misinformation campaign that bothers me. Time will reveal all…
@Rainier (Comment #38)
The Grey supporters are the last people that can point fingers. Rather keep quiet and accept the fact that he moved with his parents for whatever reason it may be..bit hypocritical to cast doubt on the move!
@TWE (Comment #38)
To be fair, although a platypus has a duck-like bill, it neither walks like a duck (it walks on all-fours), nor quacks like a duck (it vocalises with growls like other mammals). It is thus exceedingly unlikely for an animal that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck to, in fact, be a platypus…
@Rainier (Comment #37)
Could be a Platypus. I hope he enjoys Paarl Boys – great rugby program and close to your parents.
According to a little birdie the boy had been in the hostel since Gr 8, as his parents stayed in Gauteng.
Now the parents moved to the Western Cape and all of a sudden the boy cannot be away from home.
If is walks and quacks like a duck its a %$$@## duck…
@odie15 (Comment #35)
🤣🤣🤣I think the Crown Bar had an influence on the decision making.
Might be that he’s English, not a mathematical genius or farming type!
@KatzRugga (Comment #33)
Well, the answer may be in the article. He is male, so Girls High and La Rochelle may be out. He is English, so Paarl Gym is out, and Boland Landbou. He is a rugby player, so Parel Vallei will not be first choice. So based on that he scraped the barrel and decided on Paarl Boys?
THE REAL QUESTION.
The real question to be asked. With the many options on hand in the Paarl area. Why PBH over other schools? Surely that is what should be discussed. Not just here but at the other schools that might have missed out. What was the swing vote and how did it happen?
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #12)
Couldn’t agree more, it’s hard for families to be far from their kids. After school they are gone. Why leave him at GCB if he wants to be with his parents.
@Grizzly (Comment #29)
ja julle gapswannabees weet nie hoe dit is as seuns vrywillig kom nie
@Grizzly (Comment #29)
Gapsfontein, bly stil
Ek kan net my kop skud oor hoe naief mense is.Daars niks verder te se nie.
@4×4 (Comment #25)
Jy weet mos hoe dit werk
Plaas kinders dra skoene dorp toe en Dorpies dra skoene plaas toe
@Farmer (Comment #26)
Laas week actually….ek gaan ten minste twee keer n maand vir werk shit..
@Smallies (Comment #19)
Jy was seker lanklaas in Bloem gewees.
Vra ek ook! Tensy die ouers meer waarde heg aan die rugby program by Boishaai as aan Grey sin, en ingelyks dat hulle seun vir die WP/ Boland Craven Week kan speel as vir Vrystaat? En dan natuurlik die belangrikste vam alles, dat hulle seun in die Kaap sal kan leer hoe om met skoene te loop
@Smallies (Comment #8)
😆 🤣 so, Evan se ouers is multi miljoeners nog voordat sy pa, Erik ‘n die CEO pos by Pharma Dynamics aangebied was. Seker miljoeners het net iets nodig om nog steeds purpose aan hulle lewe te gee. Sy ma, Vanessa is ‘n prokureur, so ek twyfel of sy geld nodig gehad het sodat hulle seum Boishaai toe kon gaan…..Evan is ‘n Affies old boy, en die Affies manne sal altyd beweer dat hulle tot Graad 10 die fondasies gelê het, en Boishaai die finesse bygevoeg het…
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #20)
Sorry, I understood “relocation to Cape Town” as relocation to Cape Town and not to Cape Town or surrounding towns 😂
I don’t doubt the proficiency of HJS’ “marketing team” at all – that was my whole point from the start 😉
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@BoishaaiPa (Comment #20)
Ek het eendag my suen gevra na watter skool hy sy seun sal stuur as hy in die Kaap moet bly….sy antwoord …Boishaai
@Snelvuur (Comment #17)
You are assuming they live in Cape Town..they might be living in Paarl..or Stellenbosch or Westcoast for that matter…point is I believe parents will pick a school that aligns to their values and where their child will best fit in given his talents. Perhaps the BH marketing team was just more on the ball than the rest of you!
@Farmer (Comment #1)
Daar is darrem ander BAIE GOEIE skole in Bloem behlwe Grey , Oranje ,Unice ,St Micheals ,St Andrews,Sentraal,Fichies en Jim Fouche …Ek belowe jou die boere gemeenskappe sal steeds hulle kids na die skole stuur,en Bloem wes van die middestad is steeds n baie nice plek ,met top klas hospitale winkelsentrums ,sport stadia ,en baie goeie woonbuurte….
@Smallies (Comment #18)
Nee ek weet…ek terg net terug!
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #9)
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #14)
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #12)aag ou pella ek ploeg net so n bietjie met jou….nee wat as die ouers getrek het na die kaap dan is daar geen issue as hulle hulle kinders uit Grey uit haal en in n ander baie goeie seuns skool met die selfde waardes as Grey sit nie….ek hoop die jong man vaar baie goed daar.
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #13)
Of course the semigration to the Cape is a factor — this is hurting schools all across the country. However, and without getting into the nitty gritty of what remains a very personal choice of the kid and his parents, if your main concern is to be close to your parents who have moved to Cape Town, surely you wouldn’t go to a school in Paarl, where I assume he’ll have to stay in the hostel in any event (unless he’s travelling more than an hour each way every day)?
Are you saying that HJS did not provide him with any incentive to attend HJS? Because if they did, that obviously makes his case somewhat different to “normal” kids that just move schools because their parents move…
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #12)
Natuurlik gebeur dit dat families skuif, en natuurlik is dit normaal dat kinders saam skuif. Ek het geen belang hier nie en sê weer ek het geen agtergrond behalwe wat beet geskryf het nie en reageer op die plasing wat duidelik so bewoord is dat dit realsie sou uitlok. Ja semigrasie is n realiteit, maar jy kan sekerlik nie verbaas wees as die tydsberekening en en profiel van die speler en skole betrokke bietjie meer airtime kry as gewoonlik nie.
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #13)
Not props..flankers I mean.
The semi-gration to the Cape is real. There are plenty of people moving here and new pupils come into schools on regular basis every semester. If it happens to be the family of a rugby player everyone is suddenly up in arms and looking for reasons beyond what is in plain sight.
@agter_die_pale_pa (Comment #12)
Geez…can a family not relocate with no alterior motives other than changing jobs?. If any other family with a son in Gr11 moves to Paarl and he joins the school there would not be any notice taken. Just because the boy happens to be a good rugby player as well, his parents are not allowed to take him with them?. He still has to play his way into any team like everyone else..there is no gaurentees for places and he is up against some good props next year in any case. He will have to earn his spot like everyone else.
Beet, he is not listed on your FS teams posted 9 June, did they know then already he is leaving?
Yes his parents may have relocated, but I find it bit strange that a boy so entrenched in GCB-rugby the last couple of years will just leave middle of grade 11, even before the PRG derby. Hostel not an option? But I do not know anything other than what was written by Beet on this post so I am in no position so judge.
WP contract after matric?
4 years investment by GCB gone. Added to that the HJS teammate who played A-team for the last 4 years who will not play 1st team next year, and you can hardly be surprised about the emotions these late transfers are causing.
Not the first and won’t be the last.
@Smallies (Comment #9)
Nee…BH is nog nie in daai Grey liga nie…Nog n klokkie wat lui is Jan Serfontein!…ding-a-ling!
Grey manne kan maar so onsteld wees soos hulle wil. Die ouers het getrek en ek vermoed hulle wil sekerlik hulle kinders saam trek. Die Grey manne se geheue is baie kort..lui Marcel vd Merwe n klokkie by hulle?..Die ouers het toe nie eers verhuis nie.
Is Boishaai so desperaat vir spelers dat hulle nou al vir die ouers jobs organize…het Sean dit nie by Glenwood ook gedoen nie😂😂😂 Het hy nie vir Evan Roos se pa ok n Joppie gereel so ruk terug nie
@TWE (Comment #5)
As I’ve said over and over on this forum: I’m not a fan of the recruitment of players from other schools, even if PRG is doing it. And I’m even more opposed to this when this happens at u19 level. All that I was saying is that HJS has some significant “priors” in this regard.
@boerboel (Comment #6)
Ek het nie die volle feite nie en ek gaan definitief nie wat ek hoor van ouens in die Grey-kringe versprei sonder dat ek dit self kan verifieer of bevestig nie, maar ek weet net dat die Grey-manne baie ontsteld oor dié storie is.
@Snelvuur (Comment #4)
pa het verhuis- seun kom boishaai toe- wat is die storie?
@Snelvuur (Comment #2)
If it was the other Grey, it would have been Paul Roos?
@BoishaaiPa (Comment #3)
Ek weet ja, maar dan het hy mos HJS toe geskuif op o19 vlak? Of nie?
@Snelvuur (Comment #2)
Cameron was in Gr 8 in BH..hy is Gr9 terug Charlies toe en is Gr11 weer terug BH toe. Pasop vir vinger wys!
THE LINEAGE CONTINUES…
ONE OF MANY TO COME.