{"id":51413,"date":"2024-06-28T20:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=51413"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:37:37","slug":"van-zyl-to-officiate-the-main-match-at-the-59th-craven-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=51413","title":{"rendered":"Van Zyl to officiate the main match at the 59th Craven Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51419\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51419\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AV4I2707-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EON VAN ZYL will referee the main match at the 59th annual Stadio Craven Week in Krugersdorp. The main match will be between Western Province and the Free State. PHOTO: Frans Lombard\/Actionpix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KRUGERSDORP. &#8211; The honour of officiating the main match of this year&#8217;s Stadio Craven Week will fall onto the shoulders of <strong>Eon van Zyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Van Zyl, a member of the Griffons Referee Association, who is also a member of the national panel will be the man in the middle when Western Province and Free State lock horns to be crowned unofficial champions of the 59th Craven Week.<\/p>\n<p>He officiated the Varsity Shield final between Tukkies and Varsity College earlier this year. So he has more than enough experience to handle the pressures of such a big occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Western Province will be aiming to bag their fifth unofficial title, while also securing their 15th consecutive victory at the Craven Week.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a new record for the tournament which started back in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The previous referee from the Griffons who handled the main match was <strong>AJ Jacobs<\/strong> in 2015 when Western Province recorded a record 95-0 victory over Eastern Province in Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs will be officiating at the Olympic Games later this year in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Ben Connor from Wales became the first overseas referee to blow his whistle in the main match of the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The URC&#8217;s head of referees, Tappe Henning, once again brought over a couple of overseas referees to gain experience from the Craven Week.<\/p>\n<p>This year <strong>Robbie Jenkinson<\/strong> (Ireland), <strong>Alex Frasson<\/strong> (Italy) and<strong> Rob McDowell<\/strong> (Scotland) all added their names to Craven Week folklore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referees in charge of the main match of the Stadio Craven Week through the years:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ninja_tables id=&#8221;51418&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRUGERSDORP. &#8211; The honour of officiating the main match of this year&#8217;s Stadio Craven Week will fall onto the shoulders of Eon van Zyl. Van Zyl, a member of the Griffons Referee Association, who is also a member of the national panel will be the man in the middle when Western Province and Free State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51413","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\/51413","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=51413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}