Quite rightly, the entire country is being swept up by Bok fever after Saturday’s dismantling of the All Blacks, with another potentially scarring defeat on the cards for the Kiwis this weekend at Ellis Park, the ultimate rugby cauldron! Before the big kickoff at 17:05 on Saturday, there are a number of exciting schoolboy clashes …
Schoolboy Rugby – Weekend Previews and Predictions – 13 August 2022 Read More »
This weekend, every other schoolboy game pales into insignificance when the biggest interschools rugby clash in the world takes place in Paarl between the Galpille (Paarl Boys’ High) and Bloedworse (Paarl Gim). This is the first time this festival of sport, culminating in the First XV rugby match, has taken place since 2019. Thanks COVID! …
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Schools rugby returned with a bang on the weekend! There were the usual thrills and spills, with a few upsets and some very compelling viewing, made possible by the ubiquitous streams on the SuperSport Schools app and their YouTube channel, it really has been the best innovation in 2022. In the Western Cape, the two …
Wynberg gave Paul Roos a scare in taking a deserved lead late in the first half but ultimately fell away in the second half to rue what could have been in Stellenbosch in what proved to be a highly watchable match. Wynberg made the worst possible start, when their captain and scrumhalf Asad Moos had …
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Schools rugby is back! After the winter holidays and the various national youth weeks, the school derby days resume this weekend. The Craven Week at Rondebosch was a real treat, and the national selections were debated long and hard. It was clear that form throughout the season was rewarded, rather than excellence during the week. …
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Schools rugby is back! After the winter holidays and the various national youth weeks, the school derby days resume this weekend. The Craven Week at Rondebosch was a real treat, and the national selections were debated long and hard. It was clear that form throughout the season was rewarded, rather than excellence during the week. …
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The final weekend of schools action before the winter holidays featured two eye-catching matches. For the four schools involved, both games are the biggest and most important of their respective seasons. There were capacity crowds at both venues to watch some of the cream of the IEB schools in the country. It was a great …
The Craven Week at Rondebosch has been excellent, with a lot of high quality rugby on show and some strong individual performances. The week will culminate in a mouth watering North/South clash as the hosts Western Province play the Blue Bulls at 13:30 on Saturday. All the games on the main field on Saturday will …
After a COVID enforced absence, the St Stithians College Rugby festival is back this Easter weekend. The Saints festival is the oldest of the Easter festivals, and probably the most prestigious. The festival was first hosted in 1984 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. It is now a multi-code sports festival, featuring …
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When I was growing up, the FA Cup Final was a big event on our social calendar in Port Elizabeth, perhaps owing to South Africa’s isolation from international sport, but also because all my Dad’s friends seemed to have an English soccer team they keenly supported. Every year we would go to a different house …