2024 School Rugby
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Out of curiosity I checked who they were:
None from Kelston, which is a surprise.
Hiraka Waitai-Haenga was the 2nd 5 at Hamilton BHS. His midfield partner had already signed for the Titans.
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1A
Botany Downs Secondary College 6 - 31 St Paul’s College
De La Salle College 28 - 31 King’s College
Dilworth School 11 - 31 Liston College
St Peter's College 22 - 19 Kelston BHS
Auckland Grammar 27 - 20 Sacred Heart
MAGS 16 - 35 St Kent’sCNI
Whanganui Collegiate 24 - 41 St Peter’s Cambridge
Lindisfarne College 29 - 25 Wesley College
St John’s Hastings 0 - 90 Feilding High School
St Paul’s Collegiate 33 - 3 Rathkeale College
FDMC 10 - 41 St John’s HamiltonOther results:
Scots College 17 - 33 Hastings BHS
Gisborne BHS 17 - 49 Rotorua BHS
Palmerston North BHS 22 - 8 St Pat’s SilverstreamI went to watch the St Paul's-Rathkeale game. Rathkeale mastered the art of finding ways to not score a try including the final play of the game when one of their players lost the ball on the goal line from a low pass. St Paul's had two players sinbinned then and there wasn't a defender near him.
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Hmmm round 3 of Harbour and WBHS marching on (although TGS have a very weak team this year)
Mahurangi 21 - 22 Whangarei Boys
Rangitoto College 22 - 14 Massey
Takapuna Grammar 0 - 71 Westlake Boys
Manurewa 0 - 59 Rosmini22 - 12 Mahurangi
Whangarei Boys 49 - 0 Takapuna Grammar
Massey 48 - 10 Manurewa
Westlake 41 - 8 Rosmini -
@Machpants said in 2024 School Rugby:
More of the league propaganda that is flooding media these days. "Rugby" school kids have been going to league for years. It was probably worse when the U20s was going than it is now as they were getting paid at 18.
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@Machpants said in 2024 School Rugby:
More of the league propaganda that is flooding media these days. "Rugby" school kids have been going to league for years. It was probably worse when the U20s was going than it is now as they were getting paid at 18.
@Nepia Did you actually read the article?
In a wide-ranging investigation, after speaking with school coaches, parents and player agents, the Herald has uncovered at least seven players from under 15s school teams in Auckland who have signed with NRL clubs and relocated to Australia.
Five leading players from last year’s Auckland Grammar under-15s team were targeted, with two moving to Australia to join the Sydney Roosters and one from this year’s team signing with the Newcastle Knights.
Those numbers merely scratch the surface of the issue, with other Auckland schools such as Saint Kentigern, Sacred Heart and Kelston, the latter with a traditionally strong league affiliation, also believed to have experienced multiple deflections.
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My experience is that heaps of kids go to Australia to make it in league, but few of them do. It's the ones with stars in their eyes and a bit of physical talent that leave. The dreamers.
The grafters, the ones that work hard and make it in the end, are not tempted to change countries at 15.
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@Nepia Did you actually read the article?
In a wide-ranging investigation, after speaking with school coaches, parents and player agents, the Herald has uncovered at least seven players from under 15s school teams in Auckland who have signed with NRL clubs and relocated to Australia.
Five leading players from last year’s Auckland Grammar under-15s team were targeted, with two moving to Australia to join the Sydney Roosters and one from this year’s team signing with the Newcastle Knights.
Those numbers merely scratch the surface of the issue, with other Auckland schools such as Saint Kentigern, Sacred Heart and Kelston, the latter with a traditionally strong league affiliation, also believed to have experienced multiple deflections.
@Tim said in 2024 School Rugby:
@Nepia Did you actually read the article?
In a wide-ranging investigation, after speaking with school coaches, parents and player agents, the Herald has uncovered at least seven players from under 15s school teams in Auckland who have signed with NRL clubs and relocated to Australia.
Five leading players from last year’s Auckland Grammar under-15s team were targeted, with two moving to Australia to join the Sydney Roosters and one from this year’s team signing with the Newcastle Knights.
Those numbers merely scratch the surface of the issue, with other Auckland schools such as Saint Kentigern, Sacred Heart and Kelston, the latter with a traditionally strong league affiliation, also believed to have experienced multiple deflections.
Yes. Did you actually read my post?
As I said, bucket loads of young rugby players went to Oz during the Holden/Toyota Cup U20s comp. I was an assessor for a Maori sports scholarship fund for much of that time and we processed loads of applications for year 12 and school leavers going to Oz league teams.
Similar to the other articles put in the last few weeks they mix speculation with some facts, there's no allowance for leaguies going to traditional rugby schools for education/professionalism purposes (they've repeated the info about the Warriors supposed rugby player defections when an analysis of that original list showed that most players/schools were already in the league pipeline), furthermore when you read deep into the article the anecdotes are less about what's currently happening and more about what's always happened (with old players like Taumalolo and non league players like ENS as examples).
Meanwhile we're seeing multiple articles about schools banning kids from playing league when the reality is they're wanting kids to honour a commitment to the team they've joined.
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My experience is that heaps of kids go to Australia to make it in league, but few of them do. It's the ones with stars in their eyes and a bit of physical talent that leave. The dreamers.
The grafters, the ones that work hard and make it in the end, are not tempted to change countries at 15.
@Chester-Draws said in 2024 School Rugby:
My experience is that heaps of kids go to Australia to make it in league, but few of them do. It's the ones with stars in their eyes and a bit of physical talent that leave. The dreamers.
The grafters, the ones that work hard and make it in the end, are not tempted to change countries at 15.
Yeah, the ones I mentioned in the scholarship programme above, sadly the majority never made it.
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My experience is that heaps of kids go to Australia to make it in league, but few of them do. It's the ones with stars in their eyes and a bit of physical talent that leave. The dreamers.
The grafters, the ones that work hard and make it in the end, are not tempted to change countries at 15.
@Chester-Draws Yeah there's plenty of stories like that in Chch. A lot of them get homesick, or they miss out on a team and are left at a dead end.
Funnily enough, playing 1st XV rugby is how they get exposure from league clubs and a fair few of them get picked up from there, but as Steven Luatua said, he was approached by NRL clubs straight after a NZ Schools match, he obviously said no, but all they did was just move on to the next kids out there and offer them around haha, so they're just waving around contracts without doing any sort of research on a lot if these kids, and them chuck a lot of them to the dumpster fire after a while.
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1A
St Kent’s 27 - 22 King’s College
Kelston BHS 56 - 0 Dilworth School
Sacred Heart 43 - 10 Botany Downs
MAGS 24 - 29 De La Salle
Liston College 14 - 41 St Peter’s College
Auckland Grammar 36 - 7 St Paul’s CollegeCNI
St John’s Hastings 17 - 43 Whanganui Collegiate
Wesley College 12 - 14 St Paul’s Collegiate
St Peter’s Cambridge 22 - 45 Feilding High School
St John’s Hamilton 46 - 22 Lindisfarne College
Rathkeale College 38 - 22 FDMCSuper 8
Palmerston North BHS 42 - 8 Gisborne BHS
New Plymouth BHS 32 - 41 Hastings BHS -
Results from yesterday and today.
Otago BHS 26 - 17 Timaru BHS
Hamilton BHS 8 - 6 Auckland Grammar - this game was dominated by the ref and his whistle
Tauranga BC 41 - 0 Westlake BHS :astonished_face:
St Pat's Silverstream 31 - 30 New Plymouth BHS -
Super 8
Napier BHS 27 - 14 Gisborne BHS
Palmerston North BHS 14 - 23 Hastings BHS1A
St Paul's College 7 - 24 St Kent’s
King's College 15 - 12 Kelston BHS
Dilworth School 0 - 44 Sacred Heart
Mt Albert Grammar School 55 - 9 Botany Downs College
Auckland Grammar 29 - 3 Liston College
St Peter’s 17 - 7 De La SalleCNI
St Paul’s Collegiate 72 - 26 St John’s Hastings
Feilding High School 48 - 15 St John’s Hamilton
FDMC 7 - 50 St Peter’s Cambridge
