There was a nice surprise in store for boys competing at this weeks’ Under 13 Craven Week at Glenwood High School in Durban yesterday, as the Cell C Sharks Super Rugby squad opted to base themselves at the same venue for the day.
Each team was lead into the opening ceremony by a Sharks player and the squad was vocal in their support and encouragement during the day – particularly when the KZN team played. Boys would also ahve been able to observe a Sharks Super Rugby practice, which also took place on a spare field at Glenwood.
Jake White and John Smit are determined that the Sharks senior squad, as the pride of rugby in the province, should be showcased as much as possible; it started with a number of high profile Super Rugby players turning out for their club first teams during the June International break, thus drastically increasing the pull of fans towards club rugby. Yesterday’s involvement in the Craven Week tournament served a similar aim, as well as burning an indelible image into the minds of the country’s top primary school rugby players.
The message is clear – if you want to be a rugby player when you’re big, this is the place you want to do it!
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Nice of the team and the coach, just hope it’s not distracting them from the Cheetah game!!!
Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.
Great initiative. Sure the kids loved it.
Brilliant for the kids to get that up close and personal.
Wow. That is awesome from the Sharks. These boys will remember it.
And I bet the quality of the junior rugby increased ten fold with the Sharks watching. Great stuff
July 2014
01 Free State 12 – 24 Pumas
01 Namibia 5 – 12 Griffons
01 Zimbabwe 31 – 27 Border CD
June 2014
30 KwaZulu-Natal 12 – 15 Golden Lions
30 Pumas 0 – 56 Western Province
30 Blue Bulls 10 – 52 Border
30 Leopards 37 – 5 Border CD
30 Eastern Province 17 – 12 Limpopo Blue Bulls
30 Valke 13 – 0 Namibia
30 Boland 43 – 12 Griffons
30 Griquas 36 – 12 Zimbabwe
30 Free State 8 – 10 SWD
Makes my heart glad to see our boys doing things like this. That small act by the Sharks will be a memory to treasure forever for all those u13 players.
Apparently there is a player in the SWD squad that is 1,78m tall and weighs 116kg.
I don’t know what they are feeding 12 year olds these days!
@Baylion (Comment 8) : Thanks!
@Bump (Comment 10) : Father and son playing in the same team?
@Bump (Comment 10) : lots and lots of Wimpy burgers
More of today’s results
Leopards 32 – 14 Griquas
Blue Bulls 17 – 19 SWD
KwaZulu-Natal 6 – 14 Boland
Eastern Province 22 – 7 Golden Lions
@Baylion (Comment 15) : damn. 0 from 2?
@West Indies Cricket Board (Comment 16) : Dont stress…this is where the Sharks acquire the talent…u16 and u18 results very different
@SheldonK (Comment 17) :
@Bump (Comment 10) : steroids
@robdylan (Comment 19) : Funny guy!
A survey of the official programme reveals, if the numbers are to be believed, that there are 32 boys at this tournament that are over 1.78m tall, and 15 who weigh 80kg or more.
Quite a number of big lads!
@Bump (Comment 20) : at that age big lads win games.
Unfortunately for some of those 1.78m twelve year olds, they’re still going to be 1.78 when they reach 18.
Western Province 10 – 8 Valke
Border 14 – 12 Limpopo Blue Bulls
Good Stuff…
How’s that Border Blue Bulls result?
Fixtures today:
July 2014
03 08:30 Namibia vs Border CD
03 08:30 Blue Bulls vs Free State
03 09:30 Pumas vs Griquas
03 10:30 Zimbabwe vs Griffons
03 11:30 KwaZulu-Natal vs Leopards
03 12:30 SWD vs Golden Lions
03 13:30 Valke vs Limpopo Blue Bulls
03 14:30 Western Province vs Boland
03 15:30 Eastern Province vs Border
Log:
TEAM: P | W | PTS
Leopards: 2 | 2 | 10
Western Province: 2 | 2 | 9
Border: 2 | 2 | 9
Boland: 2 | 2 | 9
Eastern Province: 2 | 2 | 8
SWD: 2 | 2 | 8
Valke: 2 | 1 | 5
Griquas: 2 | 1 | 5
Zimbabwe: 2 | 1 | 5
Pumas: 2 | 1 | 5
Golden Lions: 2 | 1 | 4
Griffons: 2 | 1 | 4
Limpopo Blue Bulls: 2 | 0 | 2
Border CD: 2 | 0 | 2
KwaZulu-Natal: 2 | 0 | 1
Free State: 2 | 0 | 1
Namibia: 2 | 0 | 1
Blue Bulls: 2 | 0 | 1