2018 School Rugby
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@stargazer said in 2018 School Rugby:
Wow, what a game. High quality stuff!
That was a game with plenty of twists and turns. As I have said previously, Napier is a very good team, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them as the Canes rep in the Top 4, and even potential winners. I recorded the game so will watch a replay at some stage. It was a great day for rugby and there was a decent crowd to watch.
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@african-monkey good to see some different teams in the Auckland final this year.
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@kiwimurph Yeah someone's drought is about to be broken with St Peter's last win coming in 2000 and Kings in 2005.
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Results Saturday, 11 August 2018
North Harbour Semis
Westlake BHS 62 v Orewa 5
Takapuna GS 24 v Rosmini 31A Auckland Semis
St Kent's 21 v St Peter's 22
Kings 29 v Sacred Heart 221B Auckland Semis
Botany Downs 10 v MacLeans 17
Tangaroa 18 v Tamaki 8Central North Island
St Paul's Collegiate 41 v Wesley 27
Feilding HS: 15 v St Peter's Cambridge 12Super 8 Final
Hamilton BHS 23 v Napier BHS 22Wellington Semis
St Pat's Silverstream 34 v Wellington Coll 12
Scots College 26 v St Pat's Town 33UC Championship - Final round of the round robin
Christchurch BHS 45 v Lincoln Combined 7
Marlborough BC 55 v St Thomas 17
Aoraki Combined 14v Rangiora HS 74
St Andrew’s College 15 v St Bede’s College 7
Mid Canterbury Combined 5v Nelson College 63
Shirley BHS 45 v Waimea Combined 14
Timaru BHS 20 v Christ’s College 15Top Four: Christchurch BHS, Christ's College, St Bede's, Rangiora
Otago Final
Otago BHS 24 v John McGlashan 17 -
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@stargazer said in 2018 School Rugby:
@jk Same in Super 8 Final last year, when Hastings and Hamilton shared the title.
Different circumstances. The NH champ plays the Auckland champ to determine the Blues school at the Top 4. The Super 8 title had no bearing on the Top 4 qualifiers as the Chiefs and Hurricanes had separate qualifying games.
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@stargazer said in 2018 School Rugby:
@bovidae Just wondering. Isn't Takapuna coed? If so, maybe Westlake will play the Auckland champ for the Blues boys Top 4 spot, with Takapuna going through for a spot in the coed Top 4? Or is that a completely separate path to the Top 4?
Yes, Takapuna Grammar is a co-ed. I don't know how they find the top 4 teams from each region.
Last year the Blues co-ed team was Rangitoto College, the year before Aorere College.
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I remember in the past that teams usually say which one they fall under (top 4, or co-ed) earlier in the year.
St Kents won the Auckland comp (2011 I believe), but already decided earlier in the year that they would fall under the co-ed comp. So they didn't participate in the top 4, even though they were the best team in the country. IIRC Kelston won the top 4 nationals that year, even though Kelston got spanked in the Auckland final by St Kents. At the time, I believe Lavea didn't think St Kents would win the Auckland comp (his first year in charge, and the beginning of their dominant era), so put them in as co-ed. Ever since then, St Kents never compete for co-ed.
MAGS is co-ed, but they never compete for the co-ed comp, which is why teams like Aorere get the gig.
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Not sure teams can decide whether they are co-ed or not. I think they actually have to be them!
I believe St Paul's Collegiate tried to get itself ruled co-ed and failed. It has girls, but only from Year 11, and in smaller number than boys. They were told they only qualified as a boys school. MAGS would be the same wouldn't it?
The co-ed competition is so much easier to win, yet still "national champion" that everyone would go in it if they could.
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@chester-draws MAGS are definitely eligible, they've been co-ed for almost 20 years now.
Real rugby schools don't value the co-ed comp at all. It's not considered a real national title if you win it. It's comparable to winning the Bowl in 7s.
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I found this info from 2016, which I assume is still relevant.
The Co-Educational Schools Championship is open to all co-educational secondary schools. Co-educational is taken as meaning any school that the Ministry of Education deems as Co-Educational from Year 9.
Co-educational schools wishing to enter the National 1st XV Championship (sometimes referred to as Top Four) must signal their intention to do so, to their Regional Championship Coordinator no later than the last Friday in Term Two of the year of the Championship, or any other prior date as a Region may determine. Teams so entering will no longer be eligible for the National Co-Educational Schools’ 1st XV Championship.
St Kents made the decision to swap to the boys comp in 2012.
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Also of interest:
The Moascar Cup will be put up for competition by the holder, if the holder is participating in the Championship. Therefore any Championship game is also a mandatory challenge for the Moascar Cup. In the case of a draw at the end of time the Moascar Cup will remain with the holder.
So all North Island schools should be hoping CBHS is the South Island rep in the Top 4.
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@dice said in 2018 School Rugby:
@chester-draws MAGS are definitely eligible, they've been co-ed for almost 20 years now.
Real rugby schools don't value the co-ed comp at all. It's not considered a real national title if you win it. It's comparable to winning the Bowl in 7s.
I think I misread the Wikipedia entry on MAGS slightly. They have girls in Year 9 but teach in single sex classes?
Not sure I agree on the not valuing the co-ed, especially having talked to principals about it. Putting "national champion" on your school board is a powerful motivator. I suspect you mistake what real rugby heads think, rather than what schools themselves think. Otherwise St Paul's wouldn't have made their request.
A bowl is like a 2nd div win, whereas the co-ed is a separate league.
In the Waikato the chance of a team getting to Top 4 not called HBHS or RBHS is slim to zero. No matter whether the coed is easier, it is at least something.
