Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV

[Nepia]

@Magpie_in_aus Alex Tulou was the one I couldn’t think of his name. Rosenberg didn’t really kick on.

Imagine how much better this team would have been without Lindersfarne and it’s chequebook pinching he likes of Randell and Dagg.

[Magpie_in_aus]

@Nepia Taine lived closer to Te Aute....
Dagg wouldn't have made it past 5th form if he went to HBHS....although he probably could have joined the 'sports academy' and done 4th-year 5th form with a few of the others.

Anyway, both were academics (well in Taines case he actually was) and only found out they had sporting talent once it was nurtured at the farne'.

[Magpie_in_aus]

@Nepia Did Gordon Falcon go to Lindisfarne as well?

[Tim]

@JK

Can we do a Westlake team, or will we need Rosmini as well?

[Nepia]

@Magpie_in_aus said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@Nepia Taine lived closer to Te Aute....
Dagg wouldn't have made it past 5th form if he went to HBHS....although he probably could have joined the 'sports academy' and done 4th-year 5th form with a few of the others.

Anyway, both were academics (well in Taines case he actually was) and only found out they had sporting talent once it was nurtured at the farne'.

Taine was from Flaxmere, which is not closer to TA and he definitely went to Lindersfarne on a sporting scholarship (along with Christian Makarere at the same time).

Yep on Gordon Falcon.

[JK]

@Tim said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@JK

Can we do a Westlake team, or will we need Rosmini as well?

Not clued up enough to do either mate.

Do they have to be students or can they be teachers as well?

[JK]

@Tim said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@JK

Can we do a Westlake team, or will we need Rosmini as well?

1. Ron Williams
6. Liam Barry (teacher only?? think he went to Rosmini)
7. Dillon Hunt
10. Frano Botica
12. Luke McAlister
15. Nick Evans

Not sure who else - have trawl the north harbour side I guess. Our basketball team would be a whole lot better - prob best starting 5 in the country

[dogmeat]

@JK With a name like Barry - ya think

[Tim]

@JK Yeah Barry went to Rosmini, as did Boric.

Michael Little in the midfield? Mike Harris is another of our 10s.

[Bovidae]

If you are including Rosmini alumni then add Larsen, Wulf and G Dowd.

[shark]

@Bovidae Didn't Tom Coventry play for the Crusaders in 1996? You could bump him up from NPC to SR, maybe.

[shark]

@Bovidae said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

Auckland Grammar.

Take your pick...

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/schoollist.asp?sl_id=Auckland Grammar&stats_id=71

Come on, can't you put this rag-tag mob of no-hopers into a XV??

[Bovidae]

@shark I thought he might have played for the Chiefs too, but couldn't find any definitive proof. Deon Muir did play for the Crusaders in 1996.

Edit: It looks like Coventry's provincial career ended before SR started.

[Stargazer]

Napier Boys

1 Pouri Rakete-Stones
2 Tyrone Thompson (added)
3 Greg Somerville
4 Bryn Evans
5 Chris England (added)
6 Colin Bourke (added)
7 Gareth Evans
8 Richard Turner
9 Brad Weber
10 Ihaia West
11 Zac Guildford
12 Sam McNicol
13 Richard Buckman
14 Karne Hesketh (added)
15 Caleb Makene

Bench:
16 Glen Rolls
21 Stu Forster
22 Dan Waenga
23 Bailyn Sullivan

I'm sure I missed a few ...

[Magpie_in_aus]

@Stargazer Glen Rolls was nz 17's hooker then went and played for Spain 7's and 15's as a loosely. Those twins that went to wellington Thompson?, Dan Waenga, Dan Kirkpatrick, Glen Horton, Colin Bourke

[Duluth]

Shitty old Kamo High. There's a few gaps to fill

I think this is all the players that went on to play Super Rugby? There was a good period in the early to mid 90's

1 Con Barrell (I think he went there? Before my time..)
2 Scott Linklater
3
4 Ian Jones
5
6
7 Justin Collins
8
9
10 David Holwell
11
12 Nick Collins
13 Hayden Taylor
14
15 Todd Miller

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth yeah I dont think Joe Ross or Brad MIller made super level, only provincial?

[Stargazer]

@Magpie_in_aus Yeah, I thought about the Thompson twins, but it's an all time greatest thread, so I wondered whether there are more Napier Old Boys who've actually played for the ABs, MABs, SR, U20 and NPC (in that order), before looking at talented youngsters. As Tyrone Thompson would, no doubt, have made the U20s this year, I'll put at 2.

Colin Bourke will have to take the 6 jersey, although I have to admit I was tempted to give it to Trent Boswell-Wakefield.

Rolls (16) and Waenga (22) get a spot on the bench.

I'll amend the list in my previous post.

[Bovidae]

@Duluth I had assumed Todd Miller had went to CCNZ for some of his secondary school education like his uncles, but it appears not.

Con Barrell is another from Kamo.

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer Weber vs Forster?