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By attracting a total of 13 schools from outside the Eastern Province region, the Standard Bank Grey High Rugby Festival will have a smorgasbord of electrifying matches on its progrramme when the action kicks off on March 31.<\/p>\nBy attracting a total of 13 schools from outside the Eastern Province region, the Standard Bank Grey High Rugby Festival will have a smorgasbord of electrifying matches on its progrramme when the action kicks off on March 31.<\/p>\n
This annual schools rugby extravaganza, supported by Powerade and AlgoaFM, will be played over two days, finishing on April 2, and there will be plenty to look forward to in the fixtures scheduled for the Philip Field and the Pollock Oval.<\/p>\n
Three of those teams \u2013 Selborne, Queen\u2019s, and Hudson Park \u2013 come from Border, sides who always provide highly entertaining rugby, while 10 other schools from around the country will add an exciting dimension to the festival.<\/p>\n
Gauteng will be represented by KES, Jeppe, and Parktown, while Westville, Northwood, and Michaelhouse will display KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s particular brand of running rugby.<\/p>\n
Western Cape schools have always been an integral part of the Grey Festival and Bishops, SACS and Rondebosch form a potent trio, all capable of extending their opponents.<\/p>\n
This year they will be joined by Southern Cape powerhouse Outeniqua, from George, who has produced a string of high-quality players over many years.<\/p>\n
They will be an extremely exciting addition to the occasion and will be keen to make their mark when they take on Selborne in the first encounter, followed by Bishops on the Saturday.<\/p>\n
Bishops, themselves, will have much to prove during the festival because their opening game is against Makhanda outfit St Andrew\u2019s, a rivalry that stretches back to 1896.<\/p>\n
They were due to meet at the 2020 festival but the Covid-19 lockdown put paid to that. The teams did play in 2021 when Bishops won 38-13, so there will be everything to play for in Gqeberha.<\/p>\n
Grey High has set themselves up against tough opponents from Cape Town (SACS) and Johannesburg (KES).<\/p>\n
They were due to play SACS two years ago, so this will be a chance for both teams to show their credentials, while the second match will be a repeat of the festival finale in 2018 when Grey defeated KES 33-17.<\/p>\n
The Johannesburg side, though, has a strong rugby history and they will be fired up to end this year\u2019s festival in the best way possible.<\/p>\n
The provisional fixtures are:<\/strong><\/p>\n 31 March 2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Philip Field<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:10 –<\/strong> Westville Boys’ High vs Queen\u2019s College Pollock Oval<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:10 –<\/strong> Parktown Boys’ High vs Northwood 2 April 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n Philip Field<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:10 –<\/strong> Muir College vs Parktown Boys’ High Pollock Oval<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:10 –<\/strong> Graeme College vs Despatch [powr-comments id=”826cf4d6_1647411332421″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By attracting a total of 13 schools from outside the Eastern Province region, the Standard Bank Grey High Rugby Festival will have a smorgasbord of electrifying matches on its progrramme when the action kicks off on March 31. This annual schools rugby extravaganza, supported by Powerade and AlgoaFM, will be played over two days, finishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","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\/9721","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=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10:20 –<\/strong> Nico Malan vs King Edward VII
\n11:40 –<\/strong> Framesby vs Jeppe High School for Boys’
\n12.50 –<\/strong> Outeniqua vs Selborne College
\n14:00 –<\/strong> St Andrew\u2019s College vs Diocesan College
\n15:20 –<\/strong> Grey High School vs SACS<\/p>\n
\n10:20 –<\/strong> Kingswood College vs Michaelhouse
\n11:40 –<\/strong> Woodridge College vs Andrew Rabie
\n12.50 –<\/strong> Hudson Park vs Despatch
\n14:00 –<\/strong> Graeme College vs Rondebosch Boys’ High
\n15.20 –<\/strong> Muir College vs Ithembelihle<\/p>\n
\n10:20 –<\/strong> Jeppe High School for Boys’ vs Rondebosch Boys’ High
\n11:40 –<\/strong> Brandwag (Uitenhage) vs Hudson Park
\n12:50 –<\/strong> Selborne College vs Framesby
\n14:00 –<\/strong> Outeniqua vs Diocesan College
\n15:20 –<\/strong> Grey High School vs King Edward VII<\/p>\n
\n10:20 –<\/strong> Queen\u2019s College vs SACS
\n11:40 –<\/strong> Grey Unicorns vs Outeniqua II
\n12:50 –<\/strong> Nico Malan vs Northwood
\n14:00 –<\/strong> Westville Boys’ High vs Kingswood College
\n15:20 –<\/strong> St Andrew\u2019s College vs Michaelhouse<\/p>\n