Looking back to a brilliant 2022 Noord/Suid rugby festival, the question remains who was the actual winner at the festival. The answer lies in the definition of "winner", the formula and several biased permutations.
The organisers made it difficult with games between traditionally northern schools while Grey College and Glenwood played matches against northern and southern schools.
We needed Salomon's wisdom to determine east from the south, however, he is not on speed dial, so that decision rested with a biased northern "person".
The battle between the 1stXV's was a draw with both sides winning nine matches with the brilliant draw between Garsfontein and Paarl Boishaai.
"Strangely" the battle between the 2ndXV's was easily won by the South, they won eleven matches against the seven of the North. Is that an indication of schoolboys up north playing less rugby creating a "depth" problem or is the scouting at the top-level killing participation up North?
North (16/9/7)
Day 4
Affies 73-06 Durbanville
Helpmekaar 30-23 Paul Roos
Noordheuwel 35-22 Welkom Gim
Monnas 41-18 Oakdale
Noordheuwel 2 36-12 Welkom Gim 2
Day 3
Affies 2 38-00 Durbanville 2
Day 2
Affies 24-18 Paul Roos
Helpmekaar 2 59-03 Durbanville 2
Noordheuwel 2 18-13 Glenwood 2
Day 1
Garsfontein 67-00 Drostdy HTS
Grey College 43-27 Stellenberg
Pretoria Boys High 13-20 Nelspruit
Waterkloof 29-11 Welkom Gimnasium
Garsfontein 2 54-10 Drostdy HTS 2
Grey College 2 26-21 Stellenberg 2
Waterkloof 2 22-07 Welkom Gimnasium 2
South (20/9/11)
Day 4
EG Jansen 24-42 Stellenberg
Glenwood 17-62 Paarl Gim
Monnas 2 14-18 Oakdale 2
Day 3
Menlopark 15-31 Drostdy HTS
Waterkloof 37-57 Grey College
EG Jansen 2 05-31 Stellenberg 2
Garsfontein 2 26-28 Boishaai 2
Glenwood 2 03-33 Paarl Gim 2
Helpmekaar 2 09-24 Paul Roos 2
Menlopark 2 00-20 Drostdy HTS 2
Waterkloof 2 -07-50 Grey College 2
Day 2
EG Jansen 05-26 Oakdale
Helpmekaar 34-36 Durbanville
Monnas 19-42 Paarl Gim
Noordheuwel 26-37 Glenwood
Affies 2 10-17 Paul Roos 2
EG Jansen 2 12-38 Oakdale 2
Day 1
Menlopark 06-31 Boishaai
Menlopark 2 00-00 Boishaai 2
Monnas 2 00-34 Paarl Gim 2
Draw
Garsfontein 19-19 Boishaai
