Its turning into quite an eventful off season in the Western Cape and its the big rugby schools in Cape Town schools that are mainly responsible for creating the headlines.
Bishops not at the Paul Roos 150th on 28 March
Bishops have opted to travel to Grahamstown where they will play traditional rivals St Andrew’s as part of the Graeme College Rugby Day, instead of attending the Paul Roos 150th.
Bishops and Paul Roos are amongst the oldest schools in South Africa
Bishops’ replacement at the PRG 150th is Landboudal.
All the Western Cape big guns except for Drostdy and now Bishops are expected to attend the festival rugby day, which forms part of Paul Roos’ 150th year celebrations. It will also be a rare opportunity for local school rugby supporters to watch Affies live in the Cape region.
Fixtures
| TIME | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08h00 | Hugenote | Hermanus | ||
| 09h15 | SACS | Langenhoven Gim | ||
| 10h30 | Landboudal | Oakdale | ||
| 11h45 | Boland Landbou | Worcester Gim | ||
| 13h00 | Paarl Gim | Pietersburg | ||
| 14h15 | Rondebosch | Outeniqua | ||
| 15h30 | HJS | Diamantveld | ||
| 16h45 | Paul Roos | Affies |
Wynberg out of Cape Schools Week 2015
Wynberg has withdrawn from the 2015 Cape Schools Week to be held at Grey High in Port Elizabeth.
In a sense it’s a surprise because former Wynberg (and Queen’s College) rugby coach Ray Connellan is credited as the founder of Cape Schools Week which is played every second year and alternates between the Eastern and Western Cape.
Cape Schools Week now is the second oldest school rugby festival in South Africa after Craven Week.
The timing of the CSW festival is not practical though. It is held just before Academy Week and Craven Week. If CSW wasn’t so steeped in tradition, the event might have been scrapped a long time ago.
Just about every participating school has to make a difficult choice to either involve their provincial youth week representatives (usually best players) or exercise good player management by resting these stars, which normally weakens the team and places rugby reputations at a greater risk.
Drostdy out in the cold
In 2014 SACS became the first of the WPPL schools to make their intentions clear about playing Drostdy. In 2015, the Donkeys look like they may only have two fixtures against WPPL schools – Boishaai at home and Rondebosch away.
Cape Town Big 4 want only 3 games each against the Winelands Big 4
Finalising the Western Cape school rugby fixtures for 2014 is turning into a headache for the WP Union.
One of the requests requiring careful consideration is that the top four Cape Town schools namely Bishops, Rondebosch, SACS and Wynberg only want fixtures against three of the top four Winelands schools (Boland Landbou, HJS Paarl, Paul Roos and Paarl Gim) per annum.
@Cappie: Sal bietjie uitvind by PRG. Sal snaaks wees as hulle nie gespeel het nie.
@Maroon:
Johan wat die statistiek by Affies doen het vir my die volgende inligting gestuur van die wedstryde wat by Paul Roos plaasgevind het in 2007, toe Affies af is Boland toe vir die genoemde derby. Hy kon geen data kry oor die onder 16’s nie. Dalk het hulle nie gespeel nie????
Affies PRG
OOP 1 15 22
2 12 15
3 12 3
4 3 0
5 13 3
6 17 0
7 0 3
8 20 12
o/16 A
B
C
D
E
o/15 A 8 12
B 5 5
C 10 7
D 29 14
E 10 26
o/14 A 17 10
B 43 0
C 20 3
D 26 10
E 43 0
Ek het hierdie statistieke opgespoor in Affies se webblad.
Geskiedenis tussen Affies (eerste telling) en Paul Roos (tweede telling):
1946: 6-3 Affies
1952: 3-8 PRG
1976: 15-13 Affies
1978: 32-11 Affies
1979: 12-32 PRG
1992: 4-8 PRG
1999: 23-26 PRG
2000: 31-29 Affies
2005: 19-7 Affies
2006: 7-25 PRG
2007: 15-22 PRG
2008 17-17
2009: 25-22 Affies
2010: 18-6 Affies
2011: 28-25 Affies
2012: 22-32 PRG
2013: 17-10 Affies
Gespeel: 17
Affies: 9
PRG: 7
Gelykop: 1
@Maroon: Dis baie oulik. Ek het dit nie eers geweet nie. Het jy dalk ‘n opsomming van al die wedstryde gespeel daardie dag iewers in die argiewe? Dit sal gaaf wees as julle weer ‘n groot trek kan reël noorde toe in 2020.
@Cappie: In Willie le Roux se matriekjaar was Affies met al hulle spanne by ons. Kaap het hulle verwelkom met gietende reën. Willie het 1ste span losskakel gespeel en PRG het ‘n close game gewen.
@PaarlBok: Miskien eendag kan mens so trip reël. Affies is in 2020, 100 jaar en dan moet ons dalk kyk of ons dit kan groot maak, nie net vir die eerste span nie, maar vir al 30 rugbyspanne. Mmmmm!
@Cappie: Sal nice wees as Affies elke jaar teen PRG kan speel met al hul spanne. Seker die Boland 4 sal enige tyd enige van die Kaapstad 4 verruil om teen Affies te speel met al ons spanne.
@Boet: Oh dear…
Positive ending though. I love the idea of a weekend of trials. Something that maybe all unions should adopt.
@4×4: As ek so terug dink aan die Affies/Garsfontein debakel, kan ek my geheue verfris hoe die Anti-Affie-Noordvaal skole tekere gegaan het en staat gemaak het daarop dat skole Affies gaan boikot in die toekoms en dat hulle besluit teen hulle gaan tel vorentoe. As die uitgesoekte skool om teen Paul Roos te speel lyk dit darem nie of die uitgepreekte kritieke al teen Affies begin tel het nie, veral nie as in aggeneem word dat hulle ook reeds uitgenooi is vir die Wildeklawer en die KERF toernooie. Al die tradisionele derbies gaan ook steeds voort, en daar het selfs ‘n ekstra een bygekom.
When we read www. rugbymatters.co.za we get a more accurate report of problems in WP.
All Pretoria politics aside….I think it is an honour for Affies to be selected as the school to be playing Paul Roos in their 150th.
@Playa: True. It will be my first time watching the Bishops LIVE…I hoping for good weather and entertaining rugby from all teams
@Knight_CHS07: It should be a good game, even though on paper, one would expect Bishops to get a proper klap.
@spilly: According to Rugby365, Bishops will play Grey High at the Graeme Rugby Day. Looking forward to the official fixture list though.
@spilly: I do not have the fixture list, but I was reliably told Bishops play St Andrews in their annual derby on 26 March and will possibly play Grey PE at the Graeme Rugby Day on the 28th.
@Ploegskaar: AHA! Thanks for the clarification.
Agreed 100% on Cape Schools being an under 17 festival.
@Beet Bishops vs St Andrews at next years Greame festival do you have the rest of the fixtures for the day yet.
@Playa: RE Cape Schools, it is a relic from a time before all the ERF’s, WK, Rugby Days etc., so will in my opinion only be sustainable as an u17 festival.
RE the City Schools, read Wynberg was the main driver, rightly or wrongly miffed about their lack of CW and Elite Squad reps. The issue was also not with the 4 Winelands Schools, rather about playing only one of the Paul Roos and Boishaai Rugby Academy each year, no issue with Boland or Paarl Gym. Staggered fixtures proposed from c-team down in the age groups and opens against these 2 giants also make sense, looking at the scores every year.
Anyway, storm in a tea cup, everything resolved and normal service to resume as per the final published fixture list for 2015.
The beginning of the end for cape Schools Week? So sad…
I’d be interested to know the logic behind the move to want to play only 3 of the Winelands schools. Also of interest would be how they will choose who to play, and who gets left out.
Hockey wise it will be sad if PRG cant play against the 4 Cape Town schools. This year PRG ended 3rd on the SA Hockey rankings.
@PRondersteuner: Yes, and it started out as a KZN rugby blog
@Grasshopper: This is a rugby blog!!!!!
I find it hard to believe that the s/Suburbs schools are not up for playing all four Winelands schools – as far as I can remember the first teams looked forward to these games – maybe not so the C, D & E teams….maybe that’s the reason?
@Grasshopper: Don’t be so sure on the cricket Boet….This article however is about rugby fixtures…but on the cricket side the Winelands get more than their share of wins…
@PRondersteuner: in rugby maybe, but not cricket & waterpolo….
Shame, the CT schools are getting tired of losing to the winelands schools!!!!
Interesting, sounds like even more politics in WP than in KZN…