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Highlights HBHS 1st XV - Lincoln McClutchie

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Condor Sevens results:

Hastings BHS 45 - 7 Botany Coll
Napier BHS 26 - 14 Francis Douglas MC
Hastings BHS 50 - 12 St Peter's College (Gore)
Napier BHS 14 - 17 Rotorua BHS
Hastings BHS 10 - 22 Tauranga Boys
Napier BHS 56 - 0 Cambridge HS

Only Napier v Rotorua and Hastings v Tauranga were televised.
Napier could have won their game when they had 2 more players on the field than Rotorua due to yellow cards, but failed to take their chances and then lost a player to the bin themselves. Rotorua had some really big boys in their team and it was a very physical game.

Hastings lost deservedly. They were quite passive at times and just couldn't get through the Tauranga defence. Hastings seemed to miss a lot of their first choice players. I haven't seen a team list, but Flanders, Fakatava and Toala didn't play and it showed. Flanders was one of their best last year. McClutchie & Naholo were playing well, but some of their team mates didn't have the same fire power as the missing players.

Hastings will play in the Plate Quarter Finals against New Plymouth at 10.40am tomorrow (Sunday).
Napier takes on hosts Sacret Heart College in the Cup Quarter Finals at 12.00pm. I expect this game to be televised live on Sky Sport 2.

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@stargazer said in Schoolboy Rugby:

Condor Sevens results:

Hastings BHS 45 - 7 Botany Coll
Napier BHS 26 - 14 Francis Douglas MC
Hastings BHS 50 - 12 St Peter's College (Gore)
Napier BHS 14 - 17 Rotorua BHS
Hastings BHS 10 - 22 Tauranga Boys
Napier BHS 56 - 0 Cambridge HS

Only Napier v Rotorua and Hastings v Tauranga were televised.
Napier could have won their game when they had 2 more players on the field than Rotorua due to yellow cards, but failed to take their chances and then lost a player to the bin themselves. Rotorua had some really big boys in their team and it was a very physical game.

Hastings lost deservedly. They were quite passive at times and just couldn't get through the Tauranga defence. Hastings seemed to miss a lot of their first choice players. I haven't seen a team list, but Flanders, Fakatava and Toala didn't play and it showed. Flanders was one of their best last year. McClutchie & Naholo were playing well, but some of their team mates didn't have the same fire power as the missing players.

Hastings will play in the Plate Quarter Finals against New Plymouth at 10.40am tomorrow (Sunday).
Napier takes on hosts Sacred Heart College in the Cup Quarter Finals at 12.00pm. I expect this game to be televised live on Sky Sport 2.

Maybe they have left school thus no longer eligible?

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@higgins That's possible. Not sure what the cut-off date for eligibility is. Offically, school term 4 hasn't finished yet (had to google that).

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Hastings Boys have won their Plate QF: 47 - 7
They will now play Wesley College in the Plate SF at 1.00pm (field 4, so again not televised).

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Are you watching '86 as I think we are up at 12.00pm against the -M (Sacred Heart College) part of your NHSOB-M mob? Just watching the Timaru v Scots College game as a warm up. I don't think the Scots part of the name has anything to do with Scotland but with distant ancestry from there I will have to (grudgingly) give them my support just in case there is a connection.
By the way we got dealt to by the Wildcats in the return race down here last night so things could be better!

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@higgins said in Schoolboy Rugby:

Are you watching '86 as I think we are up at 12.00pm against the -M (Sacred Heart College) part of your NHSOB-M mob? Just watching the Timaru v Scots College game as a warm up. I don't think the Scots part of the name has anything to do with Scotland but with distant ancestry from there I will have to (grudgingly) give them my support just in case there is a connection.
By the way we got dealt to by the Wildcats in the return race down here last night so things could be better!

Haha, not sure what you're talking about, but you'll have discovered in the mean time that Napier Boys are now playing Sacred Heart. Up 12-5 at half time.

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Man they made hard work of scoring that try but eventually it did happen and the good guys rocket into the lead 12 - 05 at halftime.

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Do you think that should be a yellow card there as the blue player tackled the dark blue player whilst he was in the air diving for the try?

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Yes, stuffed them on their own home ground! NBHS 17 - 15 Sacred Heart College

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@higgins Great result. Can't say I did expect that.

Cup Semi Final at 1.20pm (televised)
Napier BHS v Scots College

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Thanks, looks like I won't be heading to the Basin then until later this afternoon. Yesterday was a good occasion but today would have been just as nice, especially seeing Tom Blundell bringing up his first teat century in his first test innings.
The result was a bit of a surprise as there did not look to be any player in our team that had outright gas but what was sacrificed there was made up in the extra grunt and power that gave our guys a couple of tries. Will need a bit of extra speed against Scots after watching what they have to offer.

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The organisation seems to have made some weird changes to the draw.

The Cup SF are now:
Scots Coll v Taurange Boys, k/o 1.00pm
Napier BHS v Hamilton BHS, still k/o at 1.20pm

This doesn't make sense at all.
The first two quarter-final winners were Tauranga and Hamilton, the last two Scots and Napier. The original draw had the Cup SF as Tauranga v Hamilton and Scots v Napier. They have changed that now. This means that Scots has less recovery time and Napier gets an arguably stronger opponent in Hamilton that gets a bit more recovery time.

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@Higgins I missed Scots v Tauranga, who won?

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Okay, so Scots beat Tauranga 24 to 19.
Napier lost 5 - 41 to Hamilton.
I think reaching the Cup semi-finals was more than many expected from Napier Boys, so well done!

Now, trying to find the result of Hastings' Plate semi ...

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Scots got home with a try right at the end of the game. Hamilton look like they will be too big and fast for them in the final. I will wander down to the Basin Reserve (probably abuot a dozen minutes walk from my flat), to take in the last three hours in the hope that I can bring some good luck to our bowling attack.

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Plate Semi Final result:
Hastings BHS 21 v 0 Wesley College

Hastings Boys will play Rotorua Boys in the Plate Final at 3.20pm (televised).

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Hastings Boys just lost the Plate Final to Rotorua 19 - 27. Basically, they lost the game to a very fast and elusive Fijian, who had a bit of help from team mates. Incredible stepper with fantastic speed that lad!

McClutchie, Hape, Robinson, Udy-Johns and Toala were among the players this game, but they were again missing Flanders and Fakatava, and also Naholo didn't play. I guess Flanders and Fakatava weren't available for this tournament, and Naholo must have suffered an injury in one of their games. It was a pity that the commentators consistently had the players' names wrong. Maybe thy had different numbers on their backs than on the team list.

By the way, Tafai Ioasa and Karl Lowe were coaching the team. I have read that Ioasa has taken over as Hastings' head coach from Ozich; is Lowe his new assistant or just for sevens? I remember reading he was involved with Hastings' U15 team earlier in the year.

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Link to photos on Napier BHS' Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1520828534661091&id=335431136534176

Hmm, they seem tiny.

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About Napier BHS' preparation for the World Schools Festival (2 - 7 April, Paarl, South Africa)

Former Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Brendon Ratcliffe describes his new role at Napier Boys' High School as the most rewarding coaching experience he has had.

Six months ago former New Zealand Rugby Union director of player development Ratcliffe was appointed director of rugby at the school and 1st XV coach.

Ratcliffe's first international assignment with NBHS will be taking a 26-strong squad to a new world schools rugby festival which begins in South Africa later this month.

Otago Boys' High School and Auckland's King's College will join NBHS as the three New Zealand teams at the 20-team festival in the Stellenbosch wine region of Western Cape Province.

Ratcliffe's troops will play Boland High School on March 31 and Monument High School on April 6. Monument High School is ranked among the top three teams in South Africa.

"We're expecting our opposing teams to be big and bulky. Our forwards will be challenged more than ever before. I learnt during my involvement with the New Zealand under-21 and under-19 teams the South African boys play with a bit more physicality," Ratcliffe said.

"If you want to compete with them you need to have more intensity and better technique. If you don't you will get in a lot of trouble."

Key forwards in the NBHS tour party include hooker/prop Patrick Teddy, hooker/flanker Tyrone Thompson, locks Josh Gimblett and Frank Lochore, who is a grandson of All Black legend Sir Brian Lochore, and loosies Sam Henderson and Luke Russell.

Kingpins in the backline include second five-eighth Leo Thompson, first five-eighth/fullback Harry Williams and halfback Angus Kilmister.

The full NBHS squad is: Angus Kilmister, Caleb Turner, Connor Wadley, Fergus MacKinnon, Frank Lochore, Harry Devine, Hayden Davis, Henry Williams, Jack Sheridan, Jayden Stok, Jayden Walker, Josh Gimblett, Keegan Christian Goss, Leo Thompson, Tyrone Thompson, Luke Russell, Manaaki Aranui, Max Anderson, Oskar Lynch, Patrick Teddy, Pereiha Hubbard, Qunta Tawhai, Rob Slabberkorn, Sam Henderson, Tiaki Fabish, Treyah Kingi Taukamo.

2018 College Day (15 April) has a good programme again:

In the wake of the training sessions the 50-strong wider training group have been putting in since November expect the NBHS 2nd XV which will play in one of the feature games at the annual College Day in Napier on April 15 to be a strong side.

They will take on the Lindisfarne College 1st XV in one of the 3pm games at the Park Island-hosted tournament being organised by the Saracens club. The other 3pm match will see St John's College host Wanganui High School.

The 1.30pm games will see Te Aute College host Wairarapa College and Wairoa College host Freyberg High School. New Zealand's top four champions in 2017, the Hastings Boys' High School 1st XV will take on their Wellington College counterparts in one of the midday encounters while Dannevirke High School will meet Central Hawke's Bay College in the other.

Hastings Boys' High School's and Wellington College's 2nd XVs will meet in one of the 10.30am games and Karamu High School and Taradale High School will clash in the other.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12012133

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