Stats on Springbok players for EOYT 2013
Heyneke Meyer’s 32-man squad to play against Wales (09 November: 19h30), Scotland (17 November: 17h00) and France (23 November: 22h00)…
SARU letter to headmasters re: steroids
24 October, 2013
Dear Headmaster
The South African Rugby Union has evidence to suggest that the use of anabolic steroids among schoolchildren is on the increase. I am appealing to you today to enlist in a campaign to address and confront this alarming sub-culture.…
Small rugby schools well represented in 2013 Currie Cup final
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DHS looking for a Head of Rugby again
After just a few months in the position, Dru Nass is now officially the former Head of Rugby of Durban High School, having returned to the Eastern Cape (Queens Junior) for personal reasons.…
Dale College rugby weakened by the Kings
On Tuesday, 22 October Dale College’s Craven Week centre Somila Jho completed his transfer from the Dale College, the Border powerhouse school in King William’s Town to Kingswood College in Grahamstown. The move was made possible by the Eastern Province Kings.…
u19 & u21 Currie Cup: Bulls eyeing 2 cups in 2013
Although this is Currie Cup final week and just about all the media attention during the build-up to Saturday’s big match is expected to be focused on the finalists Western Province and the Sharks, there is a little something that the Bulls can still get out of the season. Their under-19 team has been favourites to claim the title since day one of the season and their reinforced under-21’s, boosted by the return of several senior Currie Cup players including a Springbok to the age-group ranks, is looking equally hot ahead of the junior finals, which will also take place on Saturday at Newlands.…
Bitter sweet for EP Kings juniors
On Saturday, 19 October the Eastern Province Kings under-19’s gained promotion to the Absa under-19 Currie Cup A-division for 2014, achieved via a 27-20 victory over Border. However they then had to watch their EP under-21 team go down 23-21 to Border in the other junior rugby promotion-relegation match.…
Rugby awards season fast approaching
The Currie Cup final marks the conclusion of the domestic rugby season and is followed by the annual SARU awards shortly before the Springboks depart for Europe on their end of year tour (EOYT). Sometime towards the end of November the IRB will announce the nominees for international player of the year amongst other awards.…
R.I.P. Basjan Reinhardt
Sebastiaan “Basjan” Reinhardt, the former Paarl Gymnasium headmaster who came up with the idea for the Wildeklawer Superskole, has passed away this morning (heart attack). Sincerest condolences go out to his family during this time of sadness.…
Currie Cup u19 & u21 semi-finals
The semi-finals of all the competitions take place starting on Friday afternoon. The log toppers of the u19’s were the Bulls while WP finished first in the u21’s. Both teams are expected to progress to their respective age-group finals. The real attention will be on the other two semis which are expected to be closely fought affairs. Here the Lions u19’s host the Sharks u19, while the Bulls u21 strengthened by the return of several senior Currie Cup players are home to the Sharks u21.
Two very important junior promotion-relegation matches between sides from Border and the Eastern Province Kings are also scheduled to take place this weekend.…
Straueli’s departure could be good news for College & Westville
There are reports circulating in the media that Commercial Director Rudolf Straueli will leave the Sharks shortly to join the Lions.
If he does go, there is a chance that more details about his management style during his time in Durban will be talked about more openly and perhaps in that lies the opportunity to find out more or less what kind of a decision-making influence he exercised over schoolboy rugby in KwaZulu-Natal.…
New Hilton College rugby coach confirmed
Hilton has confirmed the appointment of AC Blume as their new 1st XV rugby coach. The energetic young Afrikaans teacher and assistant housemaster was assistant coach to Brad Macleod-Henderson over the past couple of seasons.…
KZN Craven Week 2004 – 2013 : team of the decade
He’s quite possibly the most well-known SBR blogger in the country, so when it came to finding someone to share his opinion on the Kwazulu-Natal Craven Week team from representatives of the last 10 years, who better to ask than KZN’s very own Grasshopper. Here are his picks:…
More schoolboys playing in the Currie Cup under-19
The list of schoolboy players involved in under-19 Currie Cup rugby continues to grow. This week EG Jansen’s successful captain Pieter Jansen will be in action for the Lions against Border while the selection of talented Innocent Radebe, the St Stithian’s and Golden Lions flyhalf on the Sharks under-19 bench for Saturday’s match against Western Province has come as a bit of a surprise.…
Border Craven Week team of the decade : 2004 – 2013
I enlisted the help of Queens College Class of 2011 old boy Ludz to compile a Border team made up of players that had represented the union at Craven Week over the last 10 seasons. Here’s what he came up with: …
Bulls Craven Week team of the decade : 2004 – 2013
Young Muzi (twitter: @muzimsimango) often gets asked if he is a rugby agent. I asked him to pick his Bulls Craven Week team from the last 10 seasons : 2004-2013. …
WP Craven Week team of the Decade: 2004 – 2013
Upon request blogger and Western Cape school rugby knowledgeable BuffelsCM was kind enough to help out by providing his Western Province Craven Week team for the 10 seasons from 2004 – 2013:…
We should take a close look at rugby factories
KlofiePa drew my attention to this really good article from the Business Day written by Liz McGregor who visited Dale College in King Williams town. She writes about a possible reason why we produce so few black Springboks.…
Hoof-rugbyafrigter Hoër Jongenskool Paarl
Een van die mees gesogte SA skolerugby werksgeleenthede / one of the most prestigious jobs in SA schoolboy rugby is up for grabs:…
u19 & u21 Currie Cups approaching business end of season
The under-19 and under-21 Currie Cup competitions are also nearing the playoff stages. Just one round of competition lies ahead with a few final log places still to be decided.…
Premier Interschools 2014 – which games do you want to watch?
The highly successful Premier Interschools has been responsible for bring top quality schoolboy rugby back onto the tellie after a period of during which televised games had become very rare. The formula has been to focus on popular traditional rivalries.…
Youth Club Rugby: DRSU takes on the Bulls & Pretoria Harlequins
The DRSU are playing the Blue Bulls and the DRSU invitation sides are playing Pretoria Harlequins. Fixtures below:…
SA under-16 High Performance Squad 2013
The SA under-16 High Performance training camp did not go ahead this year. These are the players that were chosen for the camp.…
A new DHS in Ballito?
I came to hear about this over the weekend for the first time. Just remember you know the context whenever someone starts a statement with the word “apparently” so here it goes: …
Under-18 National Provincial Sevens Finals
On from 23-24 September 2014 in Pretoria at Curro-Hazeldean. WON by the VALKE with DEWALD HUMAN of SWD and OUTENIQUA being awarded the Player of the Tournament prize.…
Glenwood versus Westville back in 2014
Finally the adults seem to have that put their differences aside, meaning that in 2014 the boys from Westville and Glenwood can again do what they have always wanted to do all along and that is to just play some good hard rugga against each other. …
WP u18 Sevens team
The WP Sevens team for the national provincial under-18 tournament to be held at Curro Hazeldean on 23/24 September 2013.…
Hilton College interviewing rugby head coach candidates
Well it’s quite possibly the most lucrative schoolboy rugby coaching position in South Africa so you can bet your bottom dollar that the list of applications received by Hilton College for the post of rugby head coach contains numerous familiar names in KwaZulu-Natal local rugby circles and from outside the province as well. Given the potential salary involved there might even be one or two very high profile coaches with professional or maybe even international experience applying for the position.…
Maritzburg College fixtures for 2014
Maritzburg College has released their provisional fixture list for 2014, giving us some an idea about what to expect next year:…
KZN u18 Sevens team 2013
The Kwazulu-Natal Sevens team that will be participating in the national under-18 tournament to be played in Pretoria at Curro Hazeldean, from 16 -17 September is:…
Paarl Gim adds WP Sevens 2013 title to the trophy cabinet
It had already been a hugely successful year for Paarl Gymnasium up until 14 Sepetember 2013. And now it’s just become that much better. …
Blue Bulls u18 & u16 Elite squads out shortly
Western Province have recently named their elite squads and the Bull Blues look set to follow suit any day now with their under-18 and under-16 elite teams.…
New Varsity Cup rules set to place more emphasis on student qualification
The new Varsity Cup rules are due out anytime now. It’s expected that for the 2014 season, in order to qualify, players will have to have at least one full completed year of study under the belt. For 2015 this will increase to 2 years of study. In other words they will have to be real students and not just posers.…
Queens wins the Hirsch Shield again
In athletics, Queens won the Hirsch Shield for something like the 12th time in a row, beating out numerous well-known Eastern Cape rivals. A truly outstanding achievement by Queens. Selborne were second followed by Grey High and St Andrews College.…
IRB statement following NZ v SA match
…Following an initial review, the IRB confirms that it was incorrect for referee Romain Poite to issue a yellow card to Bismarck du Plessis in the 17th minute of The Rugby Championship match between New Zealand and South Africa in Auckland on Saturday.
DRSU Youth Rugby – Finals
The DRSU Youth League comes to a close this Sunday with the finals of all age groups being played at Northwood Crusaders in Durban North.
In the 8 week club season we have seen no less than 600 players representing 33 teams in the various age groups with the top 110 players being selected to represent the DRSUYCA regional teams that will be touring to Pretoria for an inter provincial tournament at the end of the month.…
u19 Currie Cup: the unstoppa-Bulls
The Bulls are expected to make a press release during September with regards to their 2014 contracted players. Look out for at least 8 SA Schools players to be in that mix. So they will be mounting another serious challenge for top honours come next season. For now though, it’s their powerful 2013 group who are living up to expectations and are currently 7 out of 7 in this year’s Absa under-19 competition. Their lead over the chasing pack is so big coming into this round that even their bye seems to have done little eat into the comfortably on top. …
Sharks Academy not threatened by the UKZN Impis under John Mitchell
This has been in the air for a while: talk that a possibly reason behind the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Varsity Cup campaign struggles to really get off the ground is the Sharks who see the Varsity’s potential rise to prominence as a threat to their own institution, namely the Sharks Academy. In other regions, there appears to be a good working relationship between the rugby unions and the varsities. So I asked the about the Academy’s general feeling towards the UKZN Impis and the appointment of John Mitchell as their new director of coaching and here’s the response I received:
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