Selborne go up to Queen's
Selborne, Dale and Queen's are great old schools and matches amongst them are always keenly contested.
Queen's is older than Selborne, founded in 1858, 14 years before their East London friends, but Selborne started playing rugby before Queen's who were at first the thralls of soccer. Queen's changed in 1920 and have been playing Selborne with increasing enthusiasm since 1925.
To make this occasion even more special there is a huge reunion – the year of the sixes, 1966's 50th anniversary of leaving school. Amongst those present are Sammy Gunn (an Old Queenian of 1966 vintage and former Headmaster of Selborne) and Steve Woodford, a veteran of over 9000 jumps, who will be skydiving between the second XV and first XV matches, from a plane piloted by an Old Queenian of 1973 vintage, Ken Clark.
The Season
Both Selborne and Queen's have played six matches. Queen's lost to Kingswood and Jeppe while Selborne won five and drew with SACS.
At present, Selborne are ranked sixth on the Top 20, Queen's 19th,
Experience
Three of the Queen's players were at Craven Week last year – Bulele Sotyelelwa for Border and Asithandile Mrubata and Siya Jwacu for Border Country Districts.
From Selborne, Sango Xamlashe and Leon Lyons went to Craven Week and Afika Ndinisa, David Coetzer, Miles Norton and Sibahle Kuhlane went to the Grant Komo Week when the Border side was almost a Selborne side.
Rugby Programme
Recreation Ground
12.40: Third XV
13.50: Second XV
15.30: First XV
Parry East
09.00: Sixth XV
10.10: Fifth XV
11.20: Fourth XV
TW Higgs
11.00: Seventh XV
Parry West
09.00: Under-14A
10.00: Under-15A
11.00: Under-16A
Wilkie East
09.00: Under-16B
10.10: Under-15C
11.10: Under-16C
Wilkie West
09.00: Under-15B
10.00: Under-14B
11.00: Under-14B
1st XVs
Queen's: 15 Aviwe Mancotywa, 14 Mihlali Peter (captain), 16 Chris Hollis, 12 Ilano Smith, 11 Asithandile Mbubata, 10 Bulela Sotyelelwa, 9 Gareth Greyvenbstein, 8 Cameron Cato, 7 Siya Jwacu, 6 Bryan Bless, 5 Tristan Waller, 4 Aaron Brody, 3 Sitsaba Mayake, 2 Gareth Heidtmann, 1 Dale Venske.
Coaches: David Bolze, Clinton Löest.
Selborne: 15 Miles Norton, 14 Josh Armstrong, 13 Sibahle Khulane, 12 Sango Xambashe (captain), 11 Afika Ndinisai, 10 David Coetzer, 9 James Bruce, 8 Darren Lemmer, 7 Adan Mountford, 6 Alex Greig, 5 Storme Snelling, 4 Brandon du Toit, 3 Leon Lyons, 2 Mila Bomela, 1 Sande Msengane.
Coach: Kevin Taylor.
Date: April, 16
First XV kick-off: 25.30
Venue: Recreation Ground, Queen's College
Expected weather conditions: Sunny with a high of 30°C, dropping to 13°C
