My two cents

Musings on my 40 years in schools and newspapers scratching the surfaces of the world of work and the educational role of sport in school

Friday, 18 September 2020

Let's watch our language and keep the fascism out of sport

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  In my most recent blog I became a bit sentimental while reminiscing about great school coaches who are no longer with us. In the process...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020

We will miss the great coaches

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  Last week we heard of the death of Christo Meyer. He was well-known in schools rugby circles, particularly on the West Rand. He attended M...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Paul Peters got me, and my role in selling The Star

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  I was saddened to hear of the passing of Paul Peters this week. Paul was the circulation manager of The Star throughout the period that I ...
Wednesday, 1 July 2020

No Craven Week this year, and I'm not that sorry

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In other times the Craven Week would have been under way in Port Elizabeth this week. It was cancelled, of course, along with all other sc...
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

The percentages are up, but is that rugby transformation?

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Team selection is based on achievement, it reflects excellence and form, and rewards the work and effort players put in to stand out from ...
Sunday, 7 June 2020

Hand school sport back to the community

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We are all quite fond of the maxim ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ even though there isn’t much evidence that shows that children ar...
Friday, 15 May 2020

Taking the goalposts out of play was a good move. Now let's look at a few of the other crazy rugby laws

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World Rugby’s decision to change the scoring law to exclude grounding the ball against the goal post or its surrounding padding was a welc...
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