Never kid yourself that rugby’s just a game. Once a year – and then for the next 364 days – one half of the one of the prettiest towns in the country has bragging rights after what just about all aficionados of the schoolboy game will concede is the biggest interschools match in the...
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WP Premier B outfit Strand added another impressive scalp to their collection when they withstood a late rally by hosts Hugenote to run out 17-13 winners on a beautiful sunny day in Wellington on Saturday 28 July. The visitors fully deserved the victory, but they won’t be happy with the poor decision-making and handling in...
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There may be a full schedule of matches this Saturday, several of them pretty attractive, but one can sense a slow intake of breath - across the peninsula, at least – as the Interschools showdown at Faure Street on 4 August looms ever larger. In addition, the SA Under 18 squad members will all be...
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Despite the determined efforts of the elements – constant rain and a strong wind – to thwart their efforts, Paarl Gym and Outeniqua still managed to turn on a pulsating display of great schoolboy rugby, sharing the honours in a 17-17 draw at Gym’s Kriel Field on Saturday 21 July. The hosts started brightly with...
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Nope, not the release of a new thriller, just an ominous observation regarding the major attractions for many Western Cape schools rugby aficionados for Saturday 21 July 2012. It seems like a long time since there was some straightforward schoolboy fare, uncluttered by provincial selection and its accompanying skullduggery, on offer, but things could hardly be...
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A beautiful clear sky and slightly less intimidating temperature greeted players and spectators to the second day of the Swartland Winter Festival in Malmesbury on Saturday 14 July. A long day – the programme took eleven hours to run its course – provided plenty of excitement, one or two big wins and a couple of...
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There were several surprising results to liven up the spirits of those spectators who were prepared to brave the Arctic conditions on the first day of the aptly-named Swartland Winter Festival in Malmesbury on Thursday 12 July 2012. In by far the most attractive match of the day a majestic performance by a very young Tygerberg...
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Don’t worry, no need to get the kruithorings and voorlaaiers out. This isn’t a warning, but rather an invitation to get out and catch a brief glimpse of the state of the game in the schools of the country which gave us rugby. Just as the Cape is regularly saturated with visiting Argentinian sides towards the...
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Two years ago Boland went through Craven Week unbeaten, crushing, inter alia, Natal en route. Sadly, last year’s crop fell miserably short of those dizzy heights, with accusations of actions bordering on the criminal being levelled at several squad members during the Kimberley event. That has now been consigned to memory, but now two recurrent stumbling blocks,...
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Although perennial skeptics might still harbour their reservations, in the light of an impressive 69-19 win over their Namibian counterparts on Saturday 30 June, the Western Province 2012 Craven Week side does look very much like the finished product one would expect from an area boasting arguably the most concentrated pool of schoolboy talent in the country. Many...
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