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Rod McCall (65)
Thought I'll give you a bit of info or feed back regarding our schoolboy rugby. Always good to see the way others do things, so feel free to ask or to give opinion exct.
SA strength in rugby has always been our schoolboy rugby structure. We do have the rugby pedigree and it started within the schools. Thats where the rugby vibe started and all Saffers passion for the game origin from here. We all play the game or try to play it in school.
Our top rugby schools have a very strong rugby history and tradition. If you want your kid to play the game , you have to put him in this kind of schools. Myself is sure that my smallest kid wouldnt have played the game if I hadnt put him in KleinGim. He is a small kid for his age and when all his class friends plays rugby, sure he will. At KleinGim if you dont play rugby, you'r out sort of thing.
Rugby at our top schools is not the amateur kind of sport like we use to have in the old days. You have to appoint a sport or rugby organiser to get it right. They organise the matches, prepare the fields and their main job is to organise the coaches. A top rugby one like Paarl Gykm have a very strong parent and old Boys backup as coaches. Myself was surprise to see my oldest son getting paid R1000 per month coaching the U14 hockey boys.
Jake White started this and in SA coaching the top schools is the perfect platform to launch a coaching career these days. Snor went the same route and sure many will follow. Just look at the top schools coaches these days or coaches involve
Hilton College: Balie Swart, will co ordinate the souties. As a Gimmie boy he'll help the souties teaching them Gimmie Guts and coach the first XV. Balie is also co coach at the Sharks and the only person winning a World Cup as player in 1995 and co coach in 2007.
Grey College: Barend Pieterse will start his coaching career here and will join Dougie Heymans.
Paarl Gym: The head coach is Nico Momsen. Unfortanetly he has been just diagnose with blood cancer and myself wont know how long he will keep on. Louis Koen will help the backline and do kick coaching and Mark Matzopoulos, a new addition to the set-up, will focus on the skills department having learnt his trade at IRANZ (the New Zealand rugby academy).
Paul Roos: Dawie Snyman son will be head coach and Hempies du Toit will teach them to scrum.
Glenwood: They won the international tournament in Japan in 2008. John Allen is involved here as a co coach.
Bishops: Nick Mallets broer coach them, Nick will help him once the 6 Nations ended. Nick son play for their first XV last year and Tim Lane son will play this year for their first XV. Surely Lane will also help here.
Rondebosch: Robbie Kempson will coach their first XV.
Sacs: Surely Percy Montgomerie will be involve with them.
The SA Top 20 ranking ended in 2008
1. Paarl Gim, Grey College of Bloemfontein
3. Grey High of Port Elizabeth
4. Glenwood
5. Outeniqua
6. Michaelhouse
7. Waterkloof
8. Dr EG Jansen
9. Paul Roos
10. Affies
11. Paarl Boys' High,
12. Framesby
13. Bishops
14. Selborne
15. Voortrekker (Bethlehem)
16. Voortrekker (Bethlehem)
17. HTS Middelburg
18. Pretoria Boys High
19. KES
20. Monument
Schools which were also on the Top 20 are: Afrikaanse Ho?rskool Kroonstad, Boland Landbou, Dani?l Pienaar,
Die Brandwag, Eldoraigne, Florida, Hugenote of Wellington, Marlow, Noord-Kaap, Oakdale and Schoonspruit of Malmesbury
SA strength in rugby has always been our schoolboy rugby structure. We do have the rugby pedigree and it started within the schools. Thats where the rugby vibe started and all Saffers passion for the game origin from here. We all play the game or try to play it in school.
Our top rugby schools have a very strong rugby history and tradition. If you want your kid to play the game , you have to put him in this kind of schools. Myself is sure that my smallest kid wouldnt have played the game if I hadnt put him in KleinGim. He is a small kid for his age and when all his class friends plays rugby, sure he will. At KleinGim if you dont play rugby, you'r out sort of thing.
Rugby at our top schools is not the amateur kind of sport like we use to have in the old days. You have to appoint a sport or rugby organiser to get it right. They organise the matches, prepare the fields and their main job is to organise the coaches. A top rugby one like Paarl Gykm have a very strong parent and old Boys backup as coaches. Myself was surprise to see my oldest son getting paid R1000 per month coaching the U14 hockey boys.
Jake White started this and in SA coaching the top schools is the perfect platform to launch a coaching career these days. Snor went the same route and sure many will follow. Just look at the top schools coaches these days or coaches involve
Hilton College: Balie Swart, will co ordinate the souties. As a Gimmie boy he'll help the souties teaching them Gimmie Guts and coach the first XV. Balie is also co coach at the Sharks and the only person winning a World Cup as player in 1995 and co coach in 2007.
Grey College: Barend Pieterse will start his coaching career here and will join Dougie Heymans.
Paarl Gym: The head coach is Nico Momsen. Unfortanetly he has been just diagnose with blood cancer and myself wont know how long he will keep on. Louis Koen will help the backline and do kick coaching and Mark Matzopoulos, a new addition to the set-up, will focus on the skills department having learnt his trade at IRANZ (the New Zealand rugby academy).
Paul Roos: Dawie Snyman son will be head coach and Hempies du Toit will teach them to scrum.
Glenwood: They won the international tournament in Japan in 2008. John Allen is involved here as a co coach.
Bishops: Nick Mallets broer coach them, Nick will help him once the 6 Nations ended. Nick son play for their first XV last year and Tim Lane son will play this year for their first XV. Surely Lane will also help here.
Rondebosch: Robbie Kempson will coach their first XV.
Sacs: Surely Percy Montgomerie will be involve with them.
The SA Top 20 ranking ended in 2008
1. Paarl Gim, Grey College of Bloemfontein
3. Grey High of Port Elizabeth
4. Glenwood
5. Outeniqua
6. Michaelhouse
7. Waterkloof
8. Dr EG Jansen
9. Paul Roos
10. Affies
11. Paarl Boys' High,
12. Framesby
13. Bishops
14. Selborne
15. Voortrekker (Bethlehem)
16. Voortrekker (Bethlehem)
17. HTS Middelburg
18. Pretoria Boys High
19. KES
20. Monument
Schools which were also on the Top 20 are: Afrikaanse Ho?rskool Kroonstad, Boland Landbou, Dani?l Pienaar,
Die Brandwag, Eldoraigne, Florida, Hugenote of Wellington, Marlow, Noord-Kaap, Oakdale and Schoonspruit of Malmesbury