Sure the Boks and all 6 Currie Cup sides are playing this weekend, but it’s the stuff happening away from the mainstream rugby that has caught my eye … And it’s all happening up North, hence my weighing down a Mango jet plane tomorrow and heading to the Big Smoke …
Ten a side rugby, so successful down in the Cape – next year will be the 5th edition of the Cape Town Tens, heads North for the inaugural Jozi Tens, being hosted at the Pirates Rugby Club.
Basically it is one massive party with a little rugby thrown in so we can call it a sporting event … mix wiff a few ruckgy Schelebs, smash a cold Castle or three, take in a few good toones, and perhaps even strut yourself on the dance floor – just bring your own talcum powder see …
Jozi Tens Schedule – Pirates Rugby Club
Thursday 13th Sept
10am – 4pm – Team kit and player packs available
Friday 14th Sept
8.30am – 10.00am –Final opportunity to pick up player packs.
10.00am – gates open for public entrance and ticket sales.
10.00am – 10.30am – Tournament briefing.
11am – Rugby kicks off
6pm –DJ Sox, Me and Mr Brown, Ard Matthews and Gareth Cliff
8pm – Games end. Day 1 prize giving (TIGHT AND BRIGHT THEME!), welcoming speeches
Midnight – music ends and bars close
Saturday 15th Sept – Pirates Rugby Club
9.00am – gates open
9.30am – 11.30am – Springboks vs All Blacks live on all the screens
11am – Rugby kicks off
12 – 3pm – Adult Tag Tournament , with appearance from Bokkie
6pm –DJ Sox, Me and Mr Brown, SA/DC and Wrestlerish
7.30 –Cup Final, Prize giving
Midnight – music ends and bars close
Head to http://www.jozitens.com for all information on tickets, venue, fixtures etc …
And then down at the Rustenburg Impala Club, Despatch and White River will kick off the 38th edition of the National Club Champs when the two sides clash in the first of 22 matches in this year’s tournament, taking place from 15-21 September.
Despatch, EP’s top-ranked non-university club and the only side to have beaten domestic champions NMMU in this season’s Grand Challenge, will play giant killers White River – the first Lowveld side to qualify for the tournament since Nelspruit in 2008 – at 8.30am in the first of five matches to be played.
The eight first-round winners will advance to the Cup quarter-finals, with the losers contesting the Plate quarter-finals. These matches will be played on Monday 17 September, with semi-finals scheduled for Wednesday 19 September.
The Cup and Plate finals will be played on Friday 21 September with both matches televised live on SuperSport.
Saturday 15 September:
08h30 – White River vs Despatch
10h00 – Sishen vs Brakpan and Bloem Police vs Old Selbornians
11h30 – Pretoria Police vs Welkom Rovers and College Rovers vs Noordelikes
13h00 – OPENING CEREMONY
14h30 – Dur-Bell vs Blanco and Roodepoort vs Naka Bulls
16h00 – Rustenburg Impala vs Villagers Worcester
Cup quarter-finals – Mon 17 Sept
Cup semi-finals – Wed 19 Sept
Cup Final – Fri 21 Sept
Previous winners:
2011 Pukke 19 UJ 14
2010 College Rovers 24 Maties 15
2009 Hamilton 36 Pukke 34
2008 Pukke 17 College Rovers 12
2007 Maties 24 Tukkies 8
2006 Pukke 33 College Rovers 21
2005 Maties 24 UJ 13
2004 Pukke 41 TUT 10
2003 Tukkies 46 Pukke 25
2002 Shimlas 34 Pukke 26
2001 Pirates 37 Tygerberg 13
2000 Maties 54 Tukkies 37
1999 Shimlas 45 Welkom Rovers 9
1998 Maties 28 RAU 10
1997 Maties 30 RAU 15
1996 Pretoria Police 70 Old Greys 29
1995 Pretoria Police 26 Durban Crusaders 12
1994 Durban Crusaders 34 Oud-Studente 2
1993 Durban Crusaders 8 Despatch 2
1992 RAU 40 Harlequins 22
1991 Old Greys 36 Despatch 6
1990 Tukkies 22 Despatch 20
1989 Roodepoort 29 Goudstad Onderwyskollege 22
1988 Despatch 13 Tukkies 12
1987 Defence (WP) 26 Despatch 8
1986 Shimlas 14 Tukkies 6
1985 Despatch 28 Tukkies 6
1984 Maties 16 Tukkies 15
1983 Harlequins 29 Tukkies 12
1982 Maties 25 RAU 6
1981 Maties 32 Pretoria Police 9
1980 Villager 14 Maties 3
1979 Maties 27 Tukkies 11
1978 Maties 15 Tukkies 9
1977 Maties 12 Harlequins 10
1976 Tukkies 19 Maties 0
1975 Maties 28 Durban Collegians 20
