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We Are The Titans Nation
Titans Rugby is located in Johannesburg, South Africa. We run invitational teams, touring locally and internationally, sharing our high-performance brand of rugby, building and maintaining strong relationships wherever we go.
We cater for ages from 10 – 19.
The idea of Titans Rugby originated in 2015. We wanted to provide ambitious, passionate, rugby players with opportunities to improve themselves through exposure to higher levels of opposition and training. In both the 15 and 7 man format of the game.
We started small – with 4 sevens teams – a grand total of 48 boys, and then our momentous journey began…
Titans Rugby fostered a culture of professionalism and attracted strong brand-alignment, growing in stature – and values – over time. Our passion for the game and its future players resulted in convincing displays of skill and sportsmanship.
Our most talented and driven players have been selected for provincial teams. Representative teams have become a growing and successful feature of our brand. National and international tours followed. To date, Titans Rugby has toured France, England and Wales, Portugal and Ireland.
In 5 years we have become a centre of excellence for over 1,000 players.
Titans Rugby will continue doing what we do best. Pushing boundaries, changing the game and exploring new avenues of opportunity and exposure for ALL our players through the initiatives which can be found in our academy section.
We will continue our brand philosophy which embraces the tenets of good sportsmanship, passion, excellence, honesty, accountability, respect, integrity and social responsibility.
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Titans Rugby ensures the highest level of governance and safety when it comes to rugby. ensuring the following are maintained and strictly followed in accordance with residing boy regulations.
GOLDEN LIONS
Titans Rugby is affiliated to the Golden Lions Rugby Union, not as a club, but as an autonomous entity. Always ensuring to follow Golden Lions’ approval over all aspects.
BOKSMART
All coaches are Boksmart accredited and assurance is placed on the fact that Boksmart is followed during all aspects of rugby participation, from training to game day.
WORLD RUGBY
The highest priority is based on coaches accreditation and qualification and as such, Titans Rugby ensures all coaches are accredited through World Rugby.
MEDICS
Medics are present and available where and when needed, to attend to any injuries, be it minor or more serious. This is a serious must, especially on match days.
You cannot help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Titans Rugby believes in taking social responsibility seriously. Players are taught social awareness through various projects that are implemented every year.
What We Do For You
At Titans Rugby, we are aware of the challenges of our players’ already full schedules, thus we provide various flexible programmes, allowing players to join and participate at times amenable to them.
Titans Rugby Clinics are held three or four times throughout the year.
These clinics provide a professional environment in which players are exposed to a number of coaches and coaching styles – from our own adept coaches to specialist coaches invited to join our sessions.
Coach the Coaches sessions and our webinars are also popular features of the Titans Rugby Programme, which is open to all players and coaches. These comprise of:
Contextual Development Environment for team development.
Titans Rugby provides a high-performance contextual development environment. Players learn to develop their core individual skills withing the greater context of a team dynamic.
This is a fantastic training ground for role-specific or unit-based development and is geared specifically to high-performance players looking to prepare for important games and tournaments. The Titans Rugby High-Performance Training Environment offers:
Titans Rugby aligns itself with school development needs.
We offer weekly training sessions at individual schools wishing to engage with us. Satellites at various schools allow players to attend in a familiar environment in a convenient time slot.
We focus on improving individual player skills to benefit their overall rugby development. Programme overview:
Via games, festivals, tours, nationally or internationally.
One of our main objectives has always been to provide game-time development opportunities where players can measure skills acquired as from the programme in games at various levels.
To achieve this, we arrange various friendly matches and tours, both national and international, providing a platform for every player. Game Time Development Overview:
Elite Development Pathway
Titans Rugby has an objective to identify, recruit and develop talented players through our Elite Pathway Development. Players are offered access to top class coaching in a High-Performance Environment.
Identification
Identify and recruit players with the potential to excel in a high-performance environment.
Plan
Design plan considering both individual needs and correlation to the team dynamic
Develop
Implement development plan in a mentally and physically challenging environment.
Test
Use metric-based testing, combined with rugby-specific training development.
Titans Rugby strives to teach a culture that motivates and instils a code of excellence.
Some Recent Events
Titans Rugby participates in many events which range from festivals, national and international tours, sevens and 15-a-side tournaments, as well as training clinics.
Have a look at some of our recent events:
Titans Rugby pre-season clinic held in 2020, introducing the players to specialised coaching and individual development.
First rugby clinic of the year. Some awesome sessions with specialist coaches and some great knowledge sharing. Nice and long session ahead of the pre-season. Boys looking sharp and ready. Best part was to introduce some of the new coaches that will be joining Titans Rugby this year. Going to be another big year!
Titans Rugby took to Ireland in December 2019, three age groups toured and played a combined 19 games in 8 days to mark a very memorable tour.
Memorable tour with 19 games in 8 days. Titans securing 16 wins and playing some of the best opposition Ireland has to offer. Add to this, the outings of training at the Irish Rugby Academy, Dublin Tour, Yoga on the Beach and even getting to watch the mighty Leinster at the Aviva Stadium. This was a tour that will always be remembered.
Titans Rugby introduce a new competition, one where the u16s do battle internally, State vs Independent Schools
A first for Titans Rugby, it what could of been the hardest game of the year to date. The u16 age group of 2019, split into two groups. Those from State (public) schools versus those from Independent (Private) schools in the All Stars game of 2019. In a day that saw some great skilled competitions and fun saw a very competitive and attacking game of rugby on display in which the state School team edged the Independent to take the first of many to follow. On a side note, all proceedings of the day went to our supporting charity for the year, Tries for Lives.
Titans Rugby hosted the Bulls IPT teams in preparation ahead of their upcoming IPT tournament. A wonderful day enjoyed by all, and some very intense and entertaining rugby.
On an annual basis, Titans Rugby will play a series of matches against he Blue Bulls IPT Teams in preparation for their upcoming IPT Tournament. This year, Titans Rugby hosted our friends from Pretoria at Marks Park (home of Titans Rugby) and enjoyed a wonderful day of intense and entertaining rugby with some very close score lines. Definitely an event that everyone looks forward to year every year.
Titans Rugby u16 took part in the GLRU club 7s festival, hosted at Hoerskool Alberton
Titans Rugby accepted an invitation to partake in the GLRU Club 7s, hosted by Hoerskool Alberton, ahead of the club IPT trails. It proved to be a great day with the team winning all their games against some great opposition.
Titans Rugby u16 attended the annual u16 VKB Provincial Rugby Week in Frankfort, Free State. Taking on some of the best teams in the country.
After three games vs provincial teams, the Titans u16s, playing some dominating rugby, lifted the trophy as 2019 u16 VKB Rugby Week Winners. Results; v Leopards 61-0 v Griffons 66-3 v Eastern Province 46-22 A huge congrats to the team and a massive thank you to all the parents, supporters and sponsors who were part of this journey.
Titans Rugby u13 attended the annual u13 VKB Provincial Rugby Week in Frankfort, Free State. Taking on some of the best teams in the country.
After four tough games, the Titans u13s placed 2nd and runners-up at the 2019 u13 VKB Rugby Week. Winning 2 games, drawing one and losing in the final by one point. A great achievement, taking into account the short period of time this group has been together, onward and upwards from here. Results (Titans score first); v Western Cubs 26-26 v Verwes 29-7 v Pirates 40-7 v KOSH 21-22 A huge congrats to the team and a massive thank you to all the parents, supporters and sponsors who were part of this journey.
Titans Rugby 15s took part in the annual u15s Rhino Rugby Week in the Vaal. Team did well playing against some tough provincial competition.
Three very tough games in the u15 Rhino Rugby Week really put our u15 Titans Rugby to the test. Some tough rugby and some great match development for the players involved.
Titans Rugby u18s toured to Paris, France to take on some national teams in the World Youth Games in our first taste of international 7s.
Our u18 7s team placed 4th in the world at the recent Paris World Games. A great tour and a great team. Big things yet to come. Besides from the Rugby, the team got to eat while on a river cruise, visit Disney Euro, tour Paris and even play some touch rugby under the Eiffel Tower.
Great day out with some specialised coaches doing what they do and enhancing skill development and awareness in each player’s position.
Great day out with some specialized coaches doing what they do and enhancing skill development and awareness in each player’s position. Thank You to De La Salle Holy Cross College for hosting. A Big Thank You to the great coaches who made time to come down yesterday, valuable knowledge being passed on. Vlok Cilliers, AJ VD Blerk, Alex Verissimo, Tommy Dreyer, Gregan Kirkham, Henriel Coetzee and JP Olivier
Titans first ever international tour, and taking three teams to participate in the biggest youth rugby festival in Europe – the Portugal Youth Rugby Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.
A fantastic tour, Titans saw their u13s win the tournament for their age group. u15s won the plate final and u17s the bowl final. Besides from the rugby, the boys got to tour the Benfica Stadium, tour the city of Lisbon and play additional friendlies. What a great experience.
Three age groups toured England and Wales, playing a number of games and enjoying some wonderful outings. All this while experiencing some true British weather.
Total of 16 games in 10 days played Won 13 of the 16 games Scored 549 pts in total. Best part or greatest highlight of tour – being told by every team, person, adult, server and anyone we interacted with, how well mannered the boys were.
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