1st XV

Paul Roos Gym make their appearance on this week’s SA School Sports First XV Top 100 Rankings and they manage to snatch the No.1 spot after completing a troika of victories.

There has already been several high profile festivals to kick start the 2019 school rugby season with the promise of more to come in the approaching weeks. With the majority of the leading teams in the country full engaged in the season we are looking at familiar faces at the top of this week’s SA School Sports First XV Top 100 Rankings.

The 2018 school rugby season is still very much in its embryonic stage and the form and fortunes of many teams are bound to fluctuate during the course of a very busy season.

It was billed as the ‘season final’ as two of the country’s most successful teams in 2018 locked horns in what turned out to be a bitterly close affair.

Selborne College determined to finish the season on a high extracted all they had to blunt the challenge of Grey High School last week and is so doing consolidate their position in the top five of this week’s First XV Top 100 Rankings.

It was an incredible weekend of some of the finest school boy rugby you could witness anywhere on the globe with several of the powerhouses doing battle and putting on a spectacle to be proud of.

After a lengthy absence from the field Grey College turned on the taps in a massive display against Grey High School that will send shockwaves to their remaining opponents Glenwood and Paul Roos Gym.

Paul Roos Gym trounced Wynberg in an emphatic display of dominant rugby and in so doing stretched their unbeaten run as they maintain their No.1 spot on this week’s First XV Rankings.

There were only a handful of youths out on the rugby field during Youth Day last week which have done little to alter the First XV Rankings for this week.

A virtually unchanged top half of the table with the noticeable move by Paarl Boys High who get back into contention for a top five finish after they win against Boland Landbou.