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Controversy as school's U15s side run up genuinely ridiculous score in South Africa
By Ian Cameron
Famous Springbok rugby nursery Grey College have toppled a South African inter-schools scoring record.
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The Bloemfontein school’s U15 side ran out 221 points to nil winners in their match with Glenwood on the weekend, but the result has come under fire, with critics asking what such a one sided encounter achieves.
#SchoolRugby Results vs Glenwood:
u15D won 221-0
— Grey Kollege (@GreyKollege) August 12, 2017
In many school districts around the globe, age grade matches would be called off once one side had opened up a pre-determined points margin – usually in the region of 50 points.
No such rule was applied in this case.
Grey College is one of the most renowned schoolboy rugby powerhouses in South Africa, and has produced multiple Springboks down through the years. This result was one of many one-sided encounters enjoyed by the school.
According to Sport24, over the weekend in “the 19 matches played, Grey scored a total of 1 998 points, conceding 119 in the process, for an average score of 105-6.”
What makes the result more unusual is the fact that the school that took the hammering – Glenwood – are themselves a powerhouse in the province of Kwazulu-Natal. Current Springbok captain, Warren Whiteley, is a former pupil – one of 7 Springboks that the Durban based institution has produced. According to its own website, it “fields thirty teams on a regular basis”.
So Grey College u15D beat Glenwood u15D 221-0.
Point of that game going the distance?#NotGoodForTheGame— Sports Guru (@G_Skev) August 13, 2017
SA Rugby Mag report that Grey College’s director of rugby Wessel du Plessis has said if he close to the field where the 221 points were scored, he’d have stopped the match.
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‘I definitely would have stopped that 200-point game had I been in close proximity to the field where they played. After a while, the Glenwood players just stood there and refused to play further. It must have been so humiliating for them and their supporters,’ Du Plessis told Netwerk24.com.
