Tuesday, 1 July 2025

It's different, but the Craven Week is still the best tournament of them all

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  I know I whine a bit about the way in which the Craven Week has become, in effect, a knockout tournament, far removed from the festival of...
Sunday, 29 June 2025

My sporting highlight of the weekend - it's Saints again

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  My sporting highlight of the weekend? ….. Amazingly, it’s St Stithians related for the third week in a row. Lhuan-Dre Pretorius’ 153 runs,...
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Monday, 23 June 2025

Pink Derby day means more

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  My sporting highlight of the weekend? …. I did enjoy watching the Pumas beat the self-proclaimed wonders of the rugby world on Friday nigh...
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Sunday, 15 June 2025

Two significant schools rugby games, and a pretty good innings, this weekend

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Picture: Kearsney College Facebook   My sporting highlight of the weekend? …. Aiden Markram, obviously, and the Jacques Nienaber defence. ...
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Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Provincial schools selections - a complicated matter

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  The Golden Lions schools rugby teams that will be going to SA Rugby’s Youth Weeks in the holidays have been announced. There are 115 pla...
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Sunday, 1 June 2025

Jeppe scrapped, but Affies rugby is on a different planet

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  My school sport highlight of the weekend? It has to be Jeppe vs Affies. You can’t but be awed by the quality and effectiveness of the Af...
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Thursday, 29 May 2025

Ascension Day - a big schools rugby weekend that's gone now

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  Thursday was Ascension Day – a day of religious significance that was a public holiday in the past but was removed from the calendar at so...