Klofies command Bulls Craven Week team
30 May 2011
Waterkloof have 14 players in the Blue Bulls Craven Week match 22 that will compete in Kimberley in July.
Of those 14 Klofies players, 11 players make the initial starting line-up while three forwards were named on the bench. Affies, who are currently the top-ranked school in the country and are the only unbeaten side in the region, only have three representatives in the team.
Southdowns also have three players who got picked while Pretoria Technical High and Garsfontein have a player on the bench.
Blue Bulls Craven Week team – 15 Shaun Robinson (Waterkloof), 14 Duncan Matthews (Waterkloof), 13 Ruhan Janse van Rensburg (Waterkloof), 12 Janco Gunter (Waterkloof), 11 Markus Kleinbooi (Affies), 10 François Tredoux (Waterkloof), 9 Carlo Engelbrecht (Affies), 8 Roelof Smit (Waterkloof), 7 Thabo Mabuza (Southdowns), 6 De Wet Meyer (Waterkloof), 5 Durren Fielies (Waterkloof), 4 Irné Herbst (Waterkloof), 3 Marné Coetzee (Waterkloof), 2 Morné du Plessis (Waterkloof), 1 Pierre Schoeman (Affies).
Subs: 16 Dayan van der Westhuizen (Waterkloof), 17 Justin Forwood (Waterkloof), 18 Christiaan de Bruin (Waterkloof), 19 Patrick Mathe (Pretoria Technical High), 20 Irvin Domingo (Garsfontein), 21 Caswell Khoza (Southdowns), 22 Nicefore Omba (Southdowns).
3 Comments
31 May 2011, 10:32 am
Impossible for the best players in the province to ALL come frome one school.
31 May 2011, 11:58 am
Something looks odd. Since Waterkoof Hoerskool came into existance in 1979 it has played Affies 36 times and has lost on 29 of those occasions. Yet it has delivered 24 SA schools players whilst Affies (over a much longer period of time) managed only 15 and almost yearly has more players in the Blue Bull Craven week side than Affies. May I say that no other school has dominated school rugby in the North quite like Affies, winning the Director’s/Beeld Cup 18 times (most of any school), winning the Blue Bull region 26 times in total and 10 years in a row (1993-2002). This seemingly unfair bias towards Waterkloof players is something that was first noticed in the 1990′s when their headmaster was chairman of SA Schools Rugby (the same man that is now in deep trouble pertaining to fraud related irregularities during his tenure as their headmaster). It might also be interesting to know that one of their coaches was also a SA Schools and SA U/19 coach. It is very sad to see that the trend continues.
31 May 2011, 12:08 pm
Agreed. However, there are a number of fantastic players from smaller schools who should be in the team.
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