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<p>Cheers TR</p>
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<p>The Sky College Sport Facebook page is also good for info - it updates quickly on the weekend.</p>
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<p>Nepia will be happy with Hastings BHS this year. They will likely win the Super 8 comp and might be the best 1st XV in the country on current form.</p>
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<p>yeah Gibbit has been trumpeting HBHS's success, and he was on RS this morning too (filling in for Mulls)</p>
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<p><strong>Nepia will be happy with Hastings BHS this year. </strong> They will likely win the Super 8 comp and might be the best 1st XV in the country on current form.</p>
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<p>I'll be at the Ham BHS-Tauranga Boys†College game this Sat. It's the live game on the Rugby Channel.</p>
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<p>Very happy. Although, no doubt they'll fall at a final hurdle ... I watched a few of the Hika Elliott captained team's matches back in 04/05ish and didn't think they could be beaten and lost to Chch in the top four semi finals in the second half after looking like they were going to run away with it in the first.</p>
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<p>I'm just happy Napier Boys was beaten this year. </p> -
<p>You can watch all the highlights from each round of the Auckland 1A comp here: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv'>https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv</a></p>
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<p>Big match this round between the two unbeaten teams Mt Albert Grammar and Sacred Heart.</p> -
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<p>You can watch all the highlights from each round of the Auckland 1A comp here: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv'>https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv</a></p>
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<p>Big match this round between the two unbeaten teams Mt Albert Grammar and Sacred Heart.</p>
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<p>At this stage it looks like MAGS will run away with it comfortably but funnier things have happened.</p> -
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<p>You can watch all the highlights from each round of the Auckland 1A comp here: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv'>https://www.youtube.com/auckland1stxvtv</a></p>
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<p>Big match this round between the two unbeaten teams Mt Albert Grammar and Sacred Heart.</p>
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<p>My old man went to Sacred Heart so hope they win but MAGS look very very strong.</p> -
<p>The MAGS team are huge from 1 to 15. What's most impressive about their season is they have picked up a 4-try bonus point in all eight of their games. Not sure if that will last as their final three games are against Sacred Heart, St Kents and Kings but would not surprise me if they went through unbeaten.</p>
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<p>The scary thing is, only five of their squad are Year 13 so next season could be more one-way traffic.</p>
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<p>Quite cool that Junior Tonu'u and Eroni Clarke's boys are team mates together just like their dads.</p> -
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<p>Listening to RS sport this morning and were talking about this website which has a lot of good info</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.hstop200.com/'>http://www.hstop200.com/</a></p>
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<p>Rongotai are way overrated in those ratings.</p>
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<p>There's plenty of flaws in the way that dude does his ratings. For the player ratings he finds a phone number for a kid who's in a certain school's 1st XV and has a yarn with them about who are the best players in the team. Before the season started there were students messing him around for a joke and telling him a 15-year-old fringe player was a GOAT or giving him wrong positions or just making up names.</p>
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<p>I wondered how he could compare a kid from Southland to a kid from Rosmini when those schools may only have one TV game a year. It's all guess work, conjecture and facebook snooping.</p> -
<p>yeah he said he rates them based on them as a person as well rather than just on field performance, similarly the team standings, I don't think HBHS have won every game with a BP but sit higher than MAGS who have a BP from every game...?</p>
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<p>So yes they are subjective, but is more other info on there which is good</p> -
<p>yeah I think he said if MAGS beat Sacred Heart they will go ahead of HBHS regardless of how their next match goes....</p>
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<p>I'd never seen that website before. You might disagree with his rankings but good on him for taking the time. </p>
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<p>It's almost impossible to rank players without seeing them all play. I've seen Florence play live - he's a ginga so hard to miss.</p>
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<p>For the teams, we will get a better indication of the relative strength of each school once the Top 4 playoffs start. Hastings has already beaten a few Wellington teams this season and play Ham BHS at home on Aug 6. 5 Auckland schools in his Top 10 but only 1 can advance to the Top 4 finals.</p> -
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<p>yeah he said he rates them based on them as a person as well rather than just on field performance, similarly the team standings, I don't think HBHS have won every game with a BP but sit higher than MAGS who have a BP from every game...?</p>
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<p>So yes they are subjective, but is more other info on there which is good</p>
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<p>Super 8 is a lot harder than the Auckland competition, I think. Especially given the amount of All Blacks produced.</p>
