Craven Week 2025

Dave - a soecial fr you, In the matches played this far the WP Under 18 mteam looks loke theya re going to repeat last year and ends up as an unbeaten team again after beating in ther first match of the presenr series beating Boland 81-17. There thus afr has been twos urrise oucomes with the =

1. Lions beating the B lue Bulls school team; and
2. South Western District team beaating the Cheetahs team.

The last game today will be the Lions and South Western Distruct teams playing each other at 14:30 after the Bulls and Lions played each other at 13:00/

Mayne you would find rthe matches om youtube

Thanks Mike the games are all on the Supersport School app

I just saw Meyer of the Cheetass scoring a try. He plays at lock and as far as I can remember he was recruited by the Stormers as a potential lock - but he also play as a loosie. I think he is a very good buy by the Stormers - tall and of very muscular built for an 18 year old.

There is a kid by the name of Goosen the Stormers should recruit from the SWD schools team - as well as Pratt and another prop who played the fool with the Lions prop..

. .

AJ Meyer the Grey lock is the best schoolboy lock in the country - he does not play as a loosie

So he is going to the Stormers next year and ila lsi ge further training at te Development centre in Stellenbosch. What do you think about the asmall population Souyh Western D istructs beating the Bulls, the Lions and the Cheetahs thus far in the series, They and the Stomers are likely to play each other in the informal final of thr Craven week.on 19 July.

There are only three strong school teams in the South Westerm Distircts - namely Oakdale, Outeniqua and the Oudtshoorn Technical High Schools in the SWD. One player mentioned by the commentators parents recntly mved from Johannesburg to Stilbaai and he is in the Langenhoven High School in Riversdale, So there are a few players from smaller schools also in the squad. Stilbaai is a very pricy place to live in nowadays, A beachfront home two homes away from Frans Malherbe's fathers home was recently sold for R23 million, Another property with 3 homes on near the boat harbour were sold for R90 million. Ordinary homes away from the beachfronts amd the lagoon are in the R5 million to R10 million range, In SA terms the town is reserved for the wealthy, An even more expensive town to own a home in is Jongesfontein - 7 kilometers from Stilbaai - where John Smit and Spies have boltholes in - rthe homea in the main are above the R10 mllion range.

The biggest Municipal areas in the SWD are -

1. George - 186 000 people
2. Mossell Bay - 123 000 people
3. Oudshoorn - 85 000 people
4. Hessequa (Riversdale) - 65 000 people

Much smaller population than all the other rugby Provinces involved with the over majority rugb players are coolored and the majoruty are going to other Provinces to play rugby in other probnvial treams after their school years,

.