Paarl Gimnasium held on to the number one position on School of Rugby’s Rankings brought to you by Virseker. Gimmies defeated Paul Roos Gimnasium narrowly by 20-19 three minutes after the hooter in their annual Premier Interschools clash on the weekend. This ended Paul Roos’ unbeaten status.
The top four sides on our rankings Paarl Gimnasium, Grey College, Glenwood and SACS is still unbeaten. King Edward VII at position no. 8 also boast an unbeaten record after beating Waterkloof 28-25 on Saturday. This weekend is Wildeklawer in Kimberley and there will be no place to hide during the tournament. We believe that after this weekend there will be less unbeaten sides left in the country and our rankings will be a much truer reflection on the school rugby season thus far.
While Wildeklawer will see almost all of the top school teams from around the country in action – there is also the Grey High Festival in Port Elizabeth, Wynberg Boys’ High Festival as well as the Karoo Festival in Oudtshoorn.
We still haven’t taken our top team of 2016, Paarl Boys’ High in consideration as they have only played two matches thus far against teams we take into consideration for our rankings. They have beaten Affies (14-10) and Outeniqua (47-16) thus far and will have a full rating after Wildeklawer.
If they finish Wildeklawer unbeaten they will be a strong contender for the top spot. Boishaai will play Selborne College and Glenwood in Kimberley. Grey College will also make a strong case if they stay unbeaten as they have Boland Landbou and Paarl Gimnasium waiting on them in the City of Diamonds. Paarl Gim’s other match at Wildeklawer is against Waterkloof.
Please note that we don’t take matches against international opposition into consideration in our rankings. These games will however still be recorded and shown in our results. This rankings is not an official ranking as there is no official ranking on schoolboy level and this is only to get the discussion on school rugby on South Africa flowing. We however take our responsibilty on reporting school rugby very seriously.
To see each team’s results so far this season click on their name in the rankings. If you see any results missing please don’t hesitate to contact Hannes Nienaber via e-mail on hannes@schooolofrugby.co.za – and please feel free to discuss and differ from us in the comments section.
The Rankings:
| # | Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points F | Points A | Ave Score |
| 1 | Paarl Gimnasium | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 171 | 98 | 34-20 |
| 2 | Grey College | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 321 | 35 | 64-7 |
| 3 | Glenwood | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 142 | 66 | 28-13 |
| 4 | SACS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 63 | 31-13 |
| 5 | Monument | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 258 | 109 | 37-16 |
| 6 | Paul Roos Gimnasium | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 237 | 87 | 40-15 |
| 7 | Affies | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 164 | 108 | 27-18 |
| 8 | King Edward VII | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 86 | 33-14 |
| 9 | Grey High School | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 55 | 29-14 |
| 10 | Oakdale Landbou | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 163 | 49 | 41-12 |
| 11 | Selborne College | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 178 | 61 | 30-10 |
| 12 | Waterkloof | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 339 | 250 | 38-28 |
| 13 | Menlopark | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 226 | 219 | 32-31 |
| 14 | Rondebosch Boys’ High | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 41 | 32-10 |
| 15 | Voortrekker (Bethlehem) | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 214 | 60 | 43-12 |
| 16 | Diocesan College | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 72 | 27-18 |
| 17 | HTS Drostdy | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 229 | 162 | 33-23 |
| 18 | Welkom Gimnasium | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 221 | 134 | 28-17 |
| 19 | Kearsney College | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 277 | 145 | 28-15 |
| 20 | Garsfontein | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 182 | 208 | 30-35 |
| 21 | Helpmekaar | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 186 | 98 | 31-16 |
| 22 | Framesby | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 71 | 87 | 14-17 |
| 23 | Eldoraigne | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 196 | 162 | 25-20 |
| 24 | Witteberg | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 232 | 90 | 46-18 |
| 25 | Noord-Kaap | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 248 | 121 | 35-17 |
| 26 | Nelspruit | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 178 | 211 | 25-30 |
| 27 | Transvalia | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 259 | 171 | 32-21 |
| 28 | Diamantveld | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 136 | 129 | 22-20 |
| 29 | EG Jansen | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 270 | 279 | 30-31 |
| 30 | Ben Vorster | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 173 | 108 | 29-18 |
Notes on games that is not reflected in rankings:
- Boland Landbou also recorded a 77-5 victory over Windhoek High which are not counted towards our rankings.
- Oakdale Landbou played two matches against San Isidro of Argentina (17-15) and France u17 (22-31) which don’t count for our rankings.
- The top schoolrugby team in South Africa the last two years, Paarl Boys’ High played four matches on tour in New Zealand against Sacred Heart (24-8), Gisborne Boys’ High (73-3), Nelson College (87-12) and Christchurch Boys’ High (36-38) that will not reflect on the rankings. They also played against Eye of the Tiger (57-0) and NSW Combined Schools which will not be taken into consideration.
- Diamantveld also played against Windhoek Gimnasium (17-43) during the Oakdale Rugby Week.
- Voortrekker of Bethlehem also played againts Windhoek Gimnasium (0-23).
