Interschools Rugby in South Africa?

[goodNumber10]

Anyone been following this?

The highlights are on youtube courtesy of Supersport - it's superb.

one of the Weekly round ups here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M3SGdbe3Co

and the game they discussed, Kes vs Jeppe (my mate played for Jeppe under White)

 

[TRF_heineken]

It's on every weekend.

And over the June School Holidays there are about 10 rugby school festivals around the country. They show quite a lot of games on Supersport.

You should try and look out when one of the top 10 schools play each other, those games are really good to watch.

 

[goodNumber10]

It's on every weekend.

And over the June School Holidays there are about 10 rugby school festivals around the country. They show quite a lot of games on Supersport.

You should try and look out when one of the top 10 schools play each other, those games are really good to watch.

Yeah. The standard is very high. My friend was comparing it to college football in America in how big it is? Would that be right?

He said it's literally "Friday night lights "

 

[TRF_heineken]

Yeah. The standard is very high. My friend was comparing it to college football in America in how big it is? Would that be right?

He said it's literally "Friday night lights "

At some schools yeah.

There's currently a big battle going on between the traditional powerhouse schools and the newly rich schools. Where the newly rich schools "buy" kids from other regions or schools to come and play for them. They then give the kid a scholarship and a bunch of perks, and the parents smile all the way as they are saving a ton of money on tuition fees and even hostel fees. While the traditional powerhouse schools doesn't have to/need to do this, as their reputation is what makes parents stand in queues to try and get their kid to be accepted at that school.

The battle has intensified to such a scale that the traditional Powerhouse schools now refuse to play against the rich schools, and now only play derby games against the other powerhouse schools. Which is great if you live in the city, but it has made the small-town schools suffer as they get much less games throughout the year as there is no more provicial league tournaments to play like in the past. When I was at school, we had 3 tournaments in the year. the Provincial tournament, the Beeld-trophy (All the schools based on size play against each other in the old-Transvaal region in pool-like tournament) and the Region trophy, where you play derby games against a group of schools that are in the same region as you, but wouldn't normally play them as the schools fall in different size categories.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

I havn't been able to follow this year. I generally follow Paarl Gym. Attendances can be anything from 5000 up to 30 000+ depending on the opposition and stadium.

I loved this game last year, Paarl Gim beating the no.1 ranked Outeniqua away.



Then also beating Boishai in the derby this year without Pollard even if only by 1 point.

 

[lynam1104]

At some schools yeah.

There's currently a big battle going on between the traditional powerhouse schools and the newly rich schools. Where the newly rich schools "buy" kids from other regions or schools to come and play for them. They then give the kid a scholarship and a bunch of perks, and the parents smile all the way as they are saving a ton of money on tuition fees and even hostel fees. While the traditional powerhouse schools doesn't have to/need to do this, as their reputation is what makes parents stand in queues to try and get their kid to be accepted at that school.

The battle has intensified to such a scale that the traditional Powerhouse schools now refuse to play against the rich schools, and now only play derby games against the other powerhouse schools. Which is great if you live in the city, but it has made the small-town schools suffer as they get much less games throughout the year as there is no more provicial league tournaments to play like in the past. When I was at school, we had 3 tournaments in the year. the Provincial tournament, the Beeld-trophy (All the schools based on size play against each other in the old-Transvaal region in pool-like tournament) and the Region trophy, where you play derby games against a group of schools that are in the same region as you, but wouldn't normally play them as the schools fall in different size categories.

Sounds all very Gatsby-esq

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

At some schools yeah.

There's currently a big battle going on between the traditional powerhouse schools and the newly rich schools. Where the newly rich schools "buy" kids from other regions or schools to come and play for them. They then give the kid a scholarship and a bunch of perks, and the parents smile all the way as they are saving a ton of money on tuition fees and even hostel fees. While the traditional powerhouse schools doesn't have to/need to do this, as their reputation is what makes parents stand in queues to try and get their kid to be accepted at that school.

The battle has intensified to such a scale that the traditional Powerhouse schools now refuse to play against the rich schools, and now only play derby games against the other powerhouse schools. Which is great if you live in the city, but it has made the small-town schools suffer as they get much less games throughout the year as there is no more provicial league tournaments to play like in the past. When I was at school, we had 3 tournaments in the year. the Provincial tournament, the Beeld-trophy (All the schools based on size play against each other in the old-Transvaal region in pool-like tournament) and the Region trophy, where you play derby games against a group of schools that are in the same region as you, but wouldn't normally play them as the schools fall in different size categories.

That's more a thing up North than in the Cape. Here the traditional rugby powerhouses ARE the rich schools LOL.

 

[TRF_heineken]

That's more a thing up North than in the Cape. Here the traditional rugby powerhouses ARE the rich schools LOL.

yeah true.

I think it is actually only applicable to the Schools in Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West.

To give an example. The traditional powerhouse has always been, Affies (Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool, Pretoria), now the rich schools like Waterkloof, Eldoraigne and Florida "buys" guys from around Pretoria and up north to come and play for them, preventing the kids from going to Affies, where they would've gone if they weren't bought.

 

[goodNumber10]

yeah i read about a lot of this on Rugby365, the poaching and scholarships. That's a big shame for the local talent in those areas as well.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

yeah i read about a lot of this on Rugby365, the poaching and scholarships. That's a big shame for the local talent in those areas as well.

I went to very low key high school and Josh Strauss, his brother Seth who was a mean one (put in the hardest tackle I've ever felt even though it was cheap and off the ball) and Andries Bekker (tall but insanely gangly at the time) all got poached after two years at school in my time there; I wouldn't blame them for leaving though.