St Johns Easter Festival Review 2022
Article: Greg Cohen Nestled in Houghton, the awe-inspiring estate of St John’s College played host to its annual Rugby Festival. A highlight on the school sports calendar. Day 1 kicked off with Helpmekaar being pushed to the limit by Graeme College scraping through 10-7 victors against the men from th Eastern Cape. Next up giants […]
South Africa: Top 30 Rankings (19 April 2022)
Our first points/ratings based rankings are out! This is still very much early days in the season as you will see from the team ratings, thing are tight and quality of opposition will count for much. As the season progresses expect to see a lot of movement, things will get especially interesting after Selborne’s 150th […]
South Africa: 5 Teams of the Week
5. Rondebosch After a Grey High festival in which they themselves will admit they underperformed the boys from Bosch put their setbacks behind them and recorded an emphatic 46 – 24 win over their Southern Suburbs rivals SACS. There seems to be something brewing at the school, the younger age groups are performing well and […]
South Africa: Top 20 Rankings (10 April 2022)
Granted this is a bit of a thumb suck and we were only going to release our rankings after Wildeklawer when a clearer picture was painted but due to our mail box being inundated with requests we decided to go ahead and publish our first list. Naturally these always cause debate, we view it as […]
5 Teams of the Weekend
5) Grey College View profile here Although made to work hard for their win, the class of the Grey College program stood tall against an exceptional Stellenberg team. Our number 1 prospect Caleb Abrahams grabbed himself a hattrick while JF van Heerden and Lukas Meyer were incredible. From the Stellenberg side the halfback pairing on […]
15 Under 20 Rugby Players to Watch in 2022
As we do every year we kick off by naming 100 Under 20 internationals to watch, from that list we select a XV to watch and finally from this list we will name our number 1 global prospect for the 2022 season. Herewith is NextGenXV’s 15 to watch in 2022: 15) Davit Niniashvili (Georgia) Niniashvili […]
Generation NeXt: Team of the 2020’s
Before we begin the 2022 season we thought that instead of waiting until the end of the decade what we would do is a rolling team of the decade. In a nutshell we will be keeping tabs on the top school rugby XV plus reserves over the decade and notice how it changes year by […]
Varisty Cup 2022 Players and their Schools
The 2022 Varisty Cup is just around the corner, “Rugby that Rocks” returns and with so many new youth competitions at play most of the squads have been devestated by losses, the turnover rate far higher than previous editions of the tournament. We would like to thank everyone who helped us complete this list, of […]
2022 Currie Cup Players and their Schools
NAME UNION SCHOOL Adré Smith WP Oakdale Landbou Aidon Davis Cheetahs Daniel Pienaar Aidynn Cupido Lions Paul Roos Alandré van Rooyen Griquas Nico Malan Ali Mgijima Pumas Louis Botha Ali Vermaak WP Hentie Cilliers Alulutho Tshakweni Cheetahs Hudson Park Alwayno Visagie Pumas Paarl Gim Andisa Ntsila Cheetahs Queens André Manuel WP Bishops André Swarts Griquas […]
PACS 100: South African Schools
As is tradition here at NextGenXV we release our annual PACS 100, that is 100 players we suggest keeping a close eye on for the upcoming 2022 season. We cannot put into words how difficult this years list was, the current crop of Matrics have not seen a full season since their Under 15 year […]
