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The highly anticipated World Schools Festival announces top teams from England and South Africa

Grey College and Millfield are set to take part in the competition

Two of the top rugby sides in the world are among the first schools to be announced in the highly anticipated World Schools Festival tournament.

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Millfield School, from Somerset in England, and Grey College, in Bloemfontein, are both landmark announcements for the festival.

One of the most exciting school rugby tournaments ever to be launched will be held for the first time at Pattana Sports Resort in Thailand between 12th – 17th December.

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This international event will feature eight of the top schools from across the world competing in the Cup competition, with an Open Trophy competition being played alongside. The World Schools Festival will continue to promote and showcase schools rugby.

Millfield were recently named as the number one rugby school in the world by NextGenXV, having enjoyed an unbeaten season in 2021, beating the likes of Sedbergh and Wellington.

The men in green, blue and red have endured a tricky start to 2022, with a surprise defeat to Clifton College. Despite this, they are still the team to beat in school rugby.

Grey College is historically known as the best rugby school in the world.

The college, from Bloemfontein, has long been a benchmark for schools rugby with a historical 91 per cent win rate over 100 years of fixtures.

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By 2022 Grey has produced 115 SA U18s, and 46 Springboks – a clear testament to the quality of the rugby development program.

The last time Grey took part in the festival, they utterly dominated, beating the likes of Hartpury in England 60-0.

Head of rugby at Grey College, Bobby Joubert, was excited about the opportunity of taking part again in the festival.

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“This tournament offers a great opportunity for our players to experience an overseas tour and, more crucially, a chance to grow and expand their skills by playing elite competition in an international arena. Schools rugby is very popular in South Africa, but new competition will certainly put it on an international stage, and promote the exciting, free-flowing nature of rugby played at schoolboy level.”

There are still six more spots available in the festival, and there has been much debate about who may take these final places.

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The top rugby schools from Ireland, England, New Zealand and Australia are also rumoured to be involved, so we await announcements on further teams taking part in the coming days.

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Paul 940 days ago

When will people realise that grey is only a colour.....?
Go Affies!!!
Just kidding!
I'm sure all the Old Affie Boys support Greys' nomination. Measured by consistency,
Grey is definitely the flagship of schoolboy rugby in South Africa for years/decades?
Go Boys, make us proud.

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France simply need to go to a league format for the Brennus, that will shave two weekends of pointless knockout rugby from their season and raise the competitions standards and mystique no end.


The under age loophole is also a easy door to shut, just remove the lower age limit. WR simply never envisioned a day were teams would target people under the age of 17 or whatever it is now, but much like with Rassie and his use of subs bench, that day was obviously always going to come. I can’t remember how football does it, I think it’s the other way around with them, you can’t sign anyone younger than that but unions can’t stop 17 or 18 yo’s from leaving for a pro club if they want to. There is a transaction that takes place of a few hundred thousand for a normal average player. I’d prefer rugby to be stricter and just keep the union bodies signoff being required.


What really was their problem with Kite and co leaving though? Do we really need a game dominated by Internationals? I even think WR’s proposed calendar might be a bit too much, with at minimum 12 top tier games being played in the World Championship. I think 10 to 12, maybe any one player playing 10 of those 12 is the best way to think of it, for every international team is max, so that they can allow their domestic comps to shine if they want, and other nations like Japan and Fiji can, even some of the home nations maybe, and fill out their calendar with extra tours if they like them as a way to make money. As it is RA don’t have as good a pathway system, so they could simply buy back those players if they turn good. Are they worried they’ll be less likely to? We wait for baited breath for the new season to be laid out in front of us by WR.

It could impose sanctions on the Fédération Française de Rugby, but the body which runs the Top 14 and the ProD2, the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, is entirely independent.

It’s not independent at all. The LNR is a body under, and commissioned by, the FFR (and Government control) to mediate the clubs. FFR can simply install a new club competition if they don’t listen, then you’d see whether the players want to stay at any club who doesn’t tow the line and move to the new competition, as they obviously wouldn’t fall under the auspice of world rugby. They would be rebels, which is fine in and upon itself, but they would isolate themselves from the rest of the game and would need to be OK with that. I have no doubt whatsoever that clubs would have to and want to fall in line to remain part of the EPCR and French rugby. Probably even the last thing they would want is to compete with another French domestic competition that has all the advantages they don’t.


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