Paarl Gim vs Paul Roos Historic overview
Paarl Gymnasium will play Paul Roos Gimnasium in Paarl on Saturday 10 May, in the next Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools match, televised LIVE on SuperSport Select (Channel 210) at 12h15.
Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools is a series of 12 matches, which feature the highest profile and most traditional interschool rugby rivalries, from South Africa’s top rugby schools which are broadcast live on SuperSport from April to August.
Schoolboy rugby has served as one of the cornerstones of domestic rugby dating back more than a century, and true to its slogan “Honouring Heritage. Playing for the Future”, Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools is about History, Heritage and Tradition. The series, now in its second year, is expected to grow even stronger.
The Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools stories are further captured in 12 Preview shows, which preview all the games and provide historical overviews of these traditional schools and highlight other academic, cultural and sporting achievements.
Magazine show times:
Wednesday 7 May
HD1/SS1/CSN 18:45 – 19:00 Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools Eps 2 (Premier)
Thursday 8 May
HD1/SS1 06:00 – 06:15 Repeat
SelSA 10:30 – 10:45 Repeat
Friday 9 May
SS8 00:45 – 01:00 Repeat
HD1/SS1/CSN 18:30 – 18:45 Repeat
Saturday 10 May
SS8 05:15 Repeat
SelSA (210) 12:00 – 12:05 Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools Eps 2A
Paarl Gymnasium vs Paul Roos Gymnasium– Background Info
On Saturday 10th May 2014 the Battle of two Gyms will commence once again when Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos Gymnasium take to the field in their annual interschool’s derby matches. These two schools share a long and rich history in rugby and the first recorded time old boys of the two schools played together for SA was as long ago as in 24 Nov 1906 when the Springboks played Ireland in Belfast. That day Steve Joubert was the first of many Gimmies to represent his country and his Bok captain was Paul Roos himself!
In the reverse role in 2014 we find that the current Springbok captain Jean de Villiers is an old Gimmie and that Paul Roos’s latest Springbok Willie le Roux plays in the same springbok team!. The two schools rugby history is indeed interlocked when it comes to players.
The last 5 years games are slightly in favor of the Paarl team with them having won in 2010, 2012 and 2013 and Paul Roos in 2009 and 2011. So Paul Roos would like to even up matters come the 2014 version.
2014 Season
Paarl Gimnasium started the season on a very quiet note and under the radar. Their 18-22 loss early in the season to new up-and-coming Menlopark is not an indication of loss in form and one should not read too much onto that result as they did play most of their reserve squad players. Their comfortable 31-10 win over a powerful Waterkloof side is much more of an indication of what we can expect from Christof Lotters boys for this season. Two weeks later they travelled to Riversdale and in a game every one expected Oakdale to win, they handed the Riversdale Farmers their first loss of the season coming up winners 27-13. The scary part is that they accomplished this without their 2013 SA Schools fullback Grant Hermanus and two other key players in centers Wayno Visagie and Andri Cooper who are all unavailable due to injury. Hermanus and Visagie should be back after the June holidays while the prospects for Cooper looks bleak and he might not play again this season. To top off a very good period Paarl Gim won against Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool (Affies) 40-7 at the Wildeklawer festival in Kimberley.
Key players for Gim to watch out for is lock Jaco Willemse, 8th Man Luandre Luus, No 10 Walter Smit and captain and No 9 Zandré de Koker.
The 2014 Paarl Gim Squad
1
Gavin vd Berg
2
Marco Mostert
3
Adriaan Geldenhuys
4
Jaco Willemse
5
Ernst van Rhyn
6
Dieter Leicher
7
Waldo Macdonald
8
HJ Luus
9
Zandré de Koker
10
Walter Smit
11
Grant Williams
12
Willie Smal
13
Taigh Schoor
14
Leaviel Gouws
15
Paul Human
16
Willie Moolman
Paul Roos’s season started at a leisurely pace with three relatively easy wins over visiting San Isidro from Argentina, Swartland of Malmesbury and Die Brandwag of Uitenhage. Then came their first big test in Grey High from Port Elizabeth. They somehow managed to lose a match they should have won comfortably after being 26-0 up with 20 minutes to play. They ended up losing the match 27-26 due a miraculous comeback from Grey. Lessons were learned that day as this is a very good team and will yet have a good season in 2014. They had a slight hiccup over the Easter festival at St Johns losing to an inform Waterkloof 13-19 after smashing St John of Harare 80-7 two days earlier. They recovered well to beat a difficult Nelspruit team 15-10 on the final day of the festival. Some of what they are capable off was displayed at Wildeklawer festival when they blew King Edward VII (KES) off the park in a very commanding 67-0 win. Two days later they also gave a convincing performance in winning against a strong EG Jansen 30-10. This Paul Roos team should not be underestimated and by doing so Paarl Gim will do it at their own peril.
Key players for Paul Roos is No 9 Herchelle Jantjies, Captain and 8th man Michael Meyer and winger Nico Leonard.
Paul Roos 2014 Squad
1
Carl Prinsloo
2
Jacques van Zyl
3
Jerome Korf
4
Louis Conradie
5
Emile Cloete
6
Jacques Oosthuizen
7
Mitchell Carstens
8
Michael Meyer
9
Herschel Jantjes
10
Aidynn Cupido
11
Edwill van der Merwe
12
Edrich Venter
13
Matthew Gallow
14
Nico Leonard
15
Morne Taljaard
16
Muammir Salie
17
Robert Matthee
18
Christian Hamman
19
Dean van Tonder
20
Joa Swart
21
Calvin Nell
22
Reinhardt Fortuin
23
Joshua Vermeulen
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