Selectors snub Craven Week kings

Selectors snub Craven Week kings

3 Jul 2010

Just two players from Free State’s unbeaten Craven Week team have been included in the SA Schools starting XV.

Another four Bloem boys have been named on the bench. Western Province, who suffered a big defeat to Free State on Saturday, have four players in the starting line-up and one among the subs.

Grey College’s William Small-Smith will captain the side.

The back three includes the exciting Western Province duo of fullback Craig Barry and Jean-Paul Lewis. They will be joined by Boland speedster Leroy Bitterhout who scored a hat-trick of tries during his side’s 49-23 victory over KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.

Small-Smith will partner former SA Schools centre Andile Jho in the midfield. Free State’s Johan Goosen, who scored 22 points during his side’s victory over WP, was selected as the SA Schools flyhalf.

SA Schools – 15 Craig Barry (Western Province), 14 Jean-Paul Lewis (Western Province), 13 William Small-Smith (Free State, c), 12 Andile Jho (Border), 11 Leroy Bitterhout (Boland), 10 Johan Goosen (Free State), 9 Rudi van Rooyen (Blue Bulls), 8 Nardus van der Walt (Blue Bulls), 7 Sikhumbuzo Notshe (Western Province), 6 Khaya Majola (KwaZulu-Natal), 5 Ruan Botha (Valke), 4 Ruan Venter (Golden Lions), 3 Allan Dell (Border), 2 Jason Thomas (Eastern Province), 1 Steven Kitshoff (Western Province).
Subs: 16 Anrich Bitzi (Free State), 17 Neethling Fouche (Free State), 18 Schalk van Heerden (Blue Bulls), 19 Wiaan Liebenberg (Boland), 20 Kevin Luiters (Free State), 21 Paul Jordaan (Free State), 22 Tshotsho Mbovane (Western Province).


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  • 1.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:27 pm

    snubbed dragons!!!!

  • 2.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:29 pm

    simon, just two players from free state have been “including”? What the hell!

  • 3.andre3000: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:37 pm

    Have not watched enough of the Craven Week to comment on selections, but the guys who have been picked in final 22 should feel proud whether they are on the bench/starting line up.

    If Grey Bloem represented a country I am sure there rugby team would challenge for World Cup silverware. It is remarkable how much talent comes from this school.

  • 4.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:37 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-2:

    Hey! Transie, is that young Khaya Maj. the son of the deceased Khaya Majola, son of the great Eric Majola?

  • 5.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:39 pm

    I can spy the weakness in that team right away, just by looking at the names on the team sheet.

    Too few Afrikaner boys. That side “gaan harde bene kou”.

    Look at the make up of the senior Bok team – DESPITE the quota skewing.

    If your SA schools team doesn’t consist of a similar demographic ratio you’re in for a world of hurt.

    Don’t lose heart, Free State boys. We’ll bring you into our blue academy. You may not be in any losing SA Junior teams for the moment, but you may just be in a few trophy winning Bulls senior teams one day -if you’re good enough.

  • 6.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:44 pm

    @Tacitus(Tacitus)-5: lol tacci too late 90% of they grey school team this year contracted to the sharks acadamy

    only 1 player of that will be staying at the cheetahs

    you better go look at the wp team :lol:

  • 7.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:44 pm

    @ET(ET)-4: i’m not sure ET, he goes to school @ Westville Boys but i suspect so.

  • 8.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:46 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-7: he is a good player

    was great in the lineouts against the cheetahs

  • 9.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:49 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-7:

    Ja I suspect the Natal Sharks Academy probably offered him to join them and in the process advance his education.
    They did the same to a nephew of mine in the E.Cape, but he rejected their offer.

  • 10.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:49 pm

    I see the Blue Bulls are a bit overrepresented considering that they were not as talented or performed as well as other sides at Craven Week…

    Mmmm…

  • 11.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:49 pm

    @Tacitus(Tacitus)-5: not enough of the “traditional rugby playing demographic” for your liking. Hahahaha

    where is the Blue Bulls homegrown crop of players Tac?

  • 12.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:51 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-11:

    Indeed. Just like you say there.

  • 13.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:51 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-7:

    After yesterday’s drama are you still now big(or even bigger) on the ‘Oranje’ or have you shifted to the Argies because some of their personnel are with your Barca?

  • 14.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 15:57 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-10:

    What can you expect? It is all canned.

    Have you recovered from yesterday’s unbelievable drama?

    Don’t think there will be a similar wild ride today when the disciples of the “Hand of G O D ” take on your technocrats of football.

  • 15.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:10 pm

    @ET(ET)-14: Elliot, I did enjoy the drama, but see my comment on the other thread… I did feel dirty afterward – that handball was disgusting…

    I must say I cannt help but watch the game today and I hope der Mannschaft give those dirty S Americans a hiding they never forget… After watching Uru and Brazil trying to subvert the whole ethos of the game for a majority of an afternoon I truly hope the final is Germany vs Holland…

    Whatever their skill levels, S Americans are cheating, dirty curs at soccer… I wan’t to see them squirm lose control (like Brazil) and then lose…

    So, go Deutschland!!!

  • 16.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:14 pm

    @ET(ET)-13: i like arjen robben but yesterday he left me disappointed with his play acting antics, he has gone down a notch in my book. As for the team, they’re average with sneijder being world class.

  • 17.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:20 pm

    @ET(ET)-14: 1-0 Germany. Yeah!!!

  • 18.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:21 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-15:

    If the final pans out the way you see it(and the score is now accomodating) that will be the ultimate for the ‘Oranje’.

    There is no team they dislike more than your technocrats(organised & disciplined) and to get them in the WC Final will be manna from Heaven. Of course the Dutch will win that one.

  • 19.makethecirclesbigger: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:23 pm

    and who said soccer is only for coloured ppl …

  • 20.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:23 pm

    @ET(ET)-18: Yup, apparently that is the big one for both of them (Germans talk about the WC in 1990 when the Dutch spat on the German players – they never forget that)

  • 21.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:27 pm

    @ET(ET)-18: Almost another one for Deutschland

  • 22.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:33 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-16:

    You have not asnwered my question. Are you hedging your bets?

    For decades now the Brazilians have always been in my top two in any WC.

    But yesterday’s game demeaned them unfortunately.

    I have never seen a Brazilian team ever play a non-Brazilian game until that QF.
    They played a Dunga-type game which mimics the dirty, cheating Italian mess of hair pulling and tripping and mean roughness etc. Remember Dunga played close to 130 games for Fiorentina plus more with other ITA. clubs.

    In that first 5 mins. I would have yellow-carded 3 Brazilians. They knew they would over-whelm that QF rookie ref. and caused much despair to the Orange men.

    Bastos would have been red-carded and not substituted as well possibly Ronaldinho.
    The perpetrators became eventually the squealers and forgot to play their own game and Dunga is now bad news and gone(thankfully for future Bra.teams)

  • 23.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:34 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-21:

    If they got that one Maradonna would have gone berserk. I wish someone would really shup him up forever.

  • 24.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:38 pm

    @ET(ET)-23:

    S H I T, Mick Jagger is a huge football fan. And he is again in the Cape Town Stadium.

    I hope he does not favour Germany because that will cause them to not win the game.

  • 25.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:38 pm

    @ET(ET)-22: i’d like spain to win it…

  • 26.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:39 pm

    @ET(ET)-23: A hand ball by Messi and Arg get the free kick???

  • 27.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:42 pm

    @ET(ET)-24: mick jagger was here yesterday for the holland vs brasil game, with leornado di caprio & were hanging out with paris hilton before she got arrested for smoking marijuana outside the stadium and taken to mount road police station!

  • 28.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:45 pm

    @ET(ET)-24: I can see the Arg players starting to get frustrated… Dramas coming… lol

  • 29.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:46 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-27: Lol… it was on BBC / ITV news !!!

  • 30.goyougoodthing2: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:46 pm

    Suarez is a dirty sanchez. I hope all South American teams get knocked out, they are all dirty cheats.

  • 31.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:48 pm

    LOL… the BBC commentator saw a blonde in the main box and speculated about whose w.a.g she was – turns out she is Charlise Theron!!!

  • 32.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:51 pm

    @ET(ET)-24: Maradonna is going to do himself a mischief – hernia, heart attack or stroke?

  • 33.makethecirclesbigger: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:51 pm

    goyougoodthing … dont be stupid … that was a natural reaction.

  • 34.makethecirclesbigger: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:52 pm

    if only maradonna could play …. what a legend

  • 35.YoMama: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:53 pm

    Not to worry, the Sharks selectors will select the Free State schoolboys.

  • 36.makethecirclesbigger: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:57 pm

    guys from Border??????? in the side …eish…. then they wonder why the “B” team always beats the Bok Schools “A” team … who’s the selectors?? i also think the team in picked on thursday

  • 37.goyougoodthing2: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:58 pm

    @makethecirclesbigger(makethecirclesbigger)-33: A natural reaction if you are a CHEAT.

    That’s about as natural as a South African parastatal employee taking money from the til. :-)

  • 38.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 16:59 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-27:

    S H I T! Does Mt. Rd. police station still stand on the damn same spot?

    Is that Municipal market still next to it or close by?

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-32:

    Or Drugs for his hernia?

  • 39.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:02 pm

    @ET(ET)-38: Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin… changes to Soweto, Soweto, wir fahren nach Soweto…

  • 40.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:04 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-25:

    So its the other but REAL Barca. connection then?

    Good. The battle between the two of us is now officially on(don’t fret,only in a good way for us eBhayi boys).

  • 41.makethecirclesbigger: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:04 pm

    final score …. Argentina 2 – Germany 1

  • 42.goyougoodthing2: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:05 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-25: Ssshpain taught the Dirty Sanchez’s from South America how to cheat! Viva Germany!!!!

  • 43.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:15 pm

    Germany plays with honour – Arg, like other S American teams, don’t…

  • 44.goyougoodthing2: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:17 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-43: I think it’s time to go back to the Falklands.

  • 45.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:26 pm

    @goyougoodthing2(goyougoodthing2)-44: Their rugger players are good buggers but they seem t be the same as the S Americans – cheating swine… Passionate, skillful, and without honour

  • 46.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:27 pm

    YEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! 2-0 Deutschland

  • 47.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:28 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-45: With football, that is

  • 48.ET: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:28 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-43:

    Ger. 2 Arg. 0

    That has to be it for the Argies. unless we have two hands of G. intervening.

    Watch for the Latin drama now.

  • 49.goyougoodthing2: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:29 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-45: I call them all the Sanchez Sisters, they fall down like girls the cheating oily bastardos.

  • 50.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    3 Jul 2010, 17:30 pm

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