FNB Top 20 - 10 August
Long season, long weekend and schools rugby starts to wind down. Many schools have not played at all. Only four of the top 10 schools on the FNB Top 20 played, two in highly competitive matches, Grey College in a big win, Bishops in a silly exercise in which the referee stopped the match 12 minutes early with the score 104-0.
That does not make any shifting easy at the top.
But this coming weekend has some interesting clashes coming. But lower down relative newcomers, Tygerberg have made the biggest strides. They play Boland Landbou on Saturday.
There are two new teams in the FNB Top 20 - Nelspruit who beat Centurion and Noord-Kaap of Kimberley who went to Bethlehem and won a massive victory. Places for those two had to be found.
There remain many other good First XVs in the country. Those that we looked at most carefully are Afrikaanse Hoërskool Kroonstad who on their big derby against the Blouskool, Dr EG Jansen, who beat Menlopark, Marlow who beat Daniël Pienaar, Rondebosch who beat Drostdy, Ben Vorster who beat Ligbron 55-16, Queen's and Diamantveld and Centurion.
FNB Top 20 - 10 August 2010:
1. Grey College (Bloemfontein)
2. Paarl Gim
3. Paul Roos
4. St Andrew's (Grahamstown)
5. Bishops
6. Affies
7. Paarl Boys' High
8. Monument
9. Grey High (PE)
10. Waterkloof
11. Boland Landbou
12. Glenwood
13. Tygerberg
14. Selborne
15. Florida
16. Oakdale
17. Noord-Kaap
18. Duineveld
19. Drostdy
20. Nelspruit