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SACS wary of complacency

SARugbymag.co.za chats to SACS 1st XV coach Nicholas Maurer about the upcoming season.

Wynberg festival called off

The Wynberg Winter Sports Festival has been cancelled due to the ongoing drought in the Western Cape.

Affies want a ‘never-say-die attitude’

SARugbymag.co.za chats to Affies 1st XV coach Jaco Koch about the upcoming season.

Grey College to put SA before France

Grey College 1st XV coach Wessel du Plessis says the school’s partnership with French club Montpellier will not result in a player drain. A benefactor, thought to be Montpellier owner Mohed Altrad, initiated the Badawi Legacy Scholarship Programme last year. Grey College announced on its website that the programme had committed to making the following changes in three areas over… Read more →

‘We’re focusing on conditioning’

SARugbymag.co.za chats to Grey College 1st XV coach Wessel du Plessis about the upcoming season. What are the lessons you learned from last year?  We did very well last season, ending second in the country [in the Top 20 rankings]. There are certainly some things that we can change as you have to do different things to get different results…. Read more →

‘We need to do the basics well’

SARugbymag.co.za chats to Paarl Gim 1st XV coach Pieter Rossouw about the upcoming season. What are the lessons you learned from last year? We had a really good preparation and a solid start to the season. We had a really tough run of fixtures against the top 20 schools in the country and this year it will be the same…. Read more →

SA Schools prop recruited by Scotland

Nathan McBeth has linked up with the Scotland U20 side and could represent them at the World Rugby U20 Championship. The 19-year-old SA Schools loosehead prop qualifies to play for Scotland through his paternal family. McBeth (109kg) is a product of Hoërskool Monument, which also produced Springboks Jaques Fourie and Jaco Taute. He represented the Golden Lions at the U18… Read more →

‘We want get out of our comfort zones’

SARugbymag.co.za chats to Grey High School 1st XV coach Allan Miles about the upcoming season. What are the lessons that you have learned from last year? Last season, we had four losses. Three of those losses were within a point’s margin of five points. Two of those three losses were games that we lost from a leading position. The area… Read more →

‘Every single game is tough’

SARugbymag.co.za chats to Paarl Boys’ High 1st XV coach Sean Erasmus about the upcoming season. What are the lessons that you have learned from last year? We learn lessons every weekend. It is an eye-opener to see how schools rugby is getting stronger and more technical. Each weekend is becoming a Test match in the sense that the boys are… Read more →