28/02/2020
It’s heart-warming to see how far our club rugby friendships reach, as we see another weekend filled with endorsed friendlies including clubs from our neighbouring districts.
This Friday Tygerberg host Boland Club Roses United while on Saturday St Georges host Ashton RFC and Windmeul United are up against Young Stars from Wellington. One might consider the match between Sir Lowrians and Villiersdorp to be a derby match considering they are virtually neighbours.
In addition to the above, the action starts this Friday as UCT engage their non-varsity cup players in matches against Villagers and Busy Bees. To see the rest of the weekend friendlies please see below.
UCT is currently second on the Varsity Cup log having won three from four, while Maties are unbeaten in third with three from three. This coming Monday sees Maties host Tuks and UCT host Wits while CPUT travel to the Peter Booysen stadium in Pietermaritzburg to play UKZN.
Our club rugby players continue to enjoy the experience of playing for as a provincial squad as Coach Jerome Paarwater took his WPRFU XV to Wellington last weekend to play against Boland at Boland Park. This weekend the squad play at Newlands in a curtain-raiser to the DHL Stormers vs Blues match. These are certainly exciting times for these young players. The players will now return to their clubs to prepare for their first club rugby fixtures before they return to his fold when they play their first SuperSport Challenge match in April.
As head of club rugby high performance, Jerome continues with his work helping the clubs. The next opportunity is this coming Wednesday, 4 March 2020, which sees all WP Club Rugby coaches invited to a specialist session on defence at the high-performance centre in Bellville at 6:30 pm.
Our youth rugby structures are also up and running and fans will be happy to know that they can enjoy a full day of rugby at Newlands tomorrow as we see mini rugby action kick off at 10:15 with under 8 years old children from several different schools in Western Province having some fun.
This weekend we host the second of our Boksmart courses at Brackenfell Primary School and you are reminded to register for the next course on 7 March at Newlands. Click here to sign up now.
Our coaching courses keep rolling out with our next coaching course being the world rugby level 1 coaching course at Newlands on Friday 6 March 2020 from 12:00 to 19:00. If you are interested in signing up please email Nazeem Adams at nazeem@wprugby.co.za
Other Friendlies
Friday, 28 February 2020
Tygerberg
vs
Roses united
Villager
vs
UCT
UCT
vs
Busy Bee
Saturday, 29 February 2020
Franschoek
vs
Blue Stars United
Elsiesrivier
vs
Young Stars
Windmeul
vs
Young Stars (Wellington)
Langa
vs
Rangers
Hamediehs
vs
Faure
St Georges
vs
Ashton
Goodwood
vs
Gordon Leopards
Morning Star
vs
Blakes
Hands & Heart
vs
Young Gardens
Atlantis
vs
Stell – Cor
Helderberg
vs
Hamilton
Sir Lowrians
vs
Villiersdorp
Simondium
vs
All Stars
Brackenfell
vs
Durbell