{"id":27111,"date":"2021-08-31T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/former-springbok-the-new-director-of-rugby-at-grey-pe\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:41:56","slug":"former-springbok-the-new-director-of-rugby-at-grey-pe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=27111","title":{"rendered":"Former Springbok the new Director of Rugby at Grey PE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-9597\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Robbie_Kempson.jpg\" alt=\"Robbie Kempson\" width=\"380\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Robbie_Kempson.jpg 650w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Robbie_Kempson-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>Grey High School of Port Elizabeth has appointed former Springbok prop <strong>Robbi Kempson<\/strong> as their Director of Rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Kempson represented the Springboks in 37 tests during a career that spanned between 1998 and 2003. He also represented the SA Schools&#8217; side back in 1992 and is an old boy of <strong>Queen&#8217;s College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kempson previously held the position of Director of Rugby at the Southern Kings. He also previously coached at the University of Cape Town (Ikeys), the Might Elephants, and Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High (2009). He also coached the Kings during the Pro14.<\/p>\n<p>He also assisted Western Province during their Vodacom Cup campaign of 2007 as well as Namibia for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Kempson has also done work as an analyst for <strong>SuperSport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He will take the reigns from <strong>Allan Miles<\/strong> who was the Director of Rugby from 2016 until 2020. Miles is still a teacher at Grey and his experience as a school coach will be invaluable to the system in Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>Kempson was chosen ahead of other strong candidates that made the shortlist. These include former internationals &#8211; <strong>Barend Pieterse<\/strong> (Springboks) and <strong>Dries van Schalkwyk<\/strong> (Italy) as well as <strong>Peter Engledow<\/strong> and <strong>Brent Janse van Rensburg<\/strong>. Both the latter are former head coaches of Currie Cup teams.<\/p>\n<p>Grey High School has produced Springboks like current Bok-captain <strong>Siya Kolisi<\/strong>, Luke Watson, <strong>JJ Engelbrecht<\/strong>, Curwin Bosch, <strong>Roy Dryburgh<\/strong>, and Mickey Gerber.<\/p>\n<p>[powr-comments id=&#8221;528c14dd_1630394988441&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grey High School of Port Elizabeth has appointed former Springbok prop Robbi Kempson as their Director of Rugby. Kempson represented the Springboks in 37 tests during a career that spanned between 1998 and 2003. He also represented the SA Schools&#8217; side back in 1992 and is an old boy of Queen&#8217;s College. Kempson previously held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}