School Rugby 2025
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Games played Thu, Fri and Sat.
Super 8
Rotorua BHS 14-29 Tauranga BC
Hastings BHS 19-33 Palmerston North BHS
Gisborne BHS 13-7 Napier BHSCNI
Lindisfarne College 65-5 St John’s Hastings
St Peter’s Cambridge 19-14 St Paul’s Collegiate
Wesley College 26-22 St John’s Hamilton -
Wow scots college having to default their game. Must not be able to pull in the scholarship players anymore with the new rules. Used to joke they had the million dollar backline when i was at school
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@DurryMexted said in School Rugby 2025:
Wow scots college having to default their game. Must not be able to pull in the scholarship players anymore with the new rules. Used to joke they had the million dollar backline when i was at school
I remember when they had both Umaga-Jensen bros, Connor Garden-Bachop, TJ Va'a and Malo Tuitama in their backline, plus Alex Fidow up front. I think they drew the national title that year.
I wonder also if them becoming a co-ed school may have impacted proceedings somewhat?
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@DurryMexted said in School Rugby 2025:
Wow scots college having to default their game.
Is that due to not having front row reserves - again?
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@Nepia said in School Rugby 2025:
Palmy looks like the team to beat this year and the good guys won the game that mattered the most this weekend
TBC is probably still the team to beat and Palmy plays them away.
CNI
St John’s Hastings 5–57 St Paul’s Collegiate
St Peter’s Cambridge 50–27 FDMC
St John’s Hamilton 12-26 Feilding High School -
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Typical cheating Ta$man
(this happened in the 90s FFS)
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what age are the kids though? I stayed at school after 7th form to play Rugby & Golf for the school, but was still only 17 for half the year.
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@taniwharugby said in School Rugby 2025:
what age are the kids though? I stayed at school after 7th form to play Rugby & Golf for the school, but was still only 17 for half the year.
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@mariner4life I wasnt fat!
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The 14th Year: When schoolboy rugby stops being schoolboy rugby
In light of the controversy in Marlborough, Israel Dagg reflects on the pressures of 1st XV and if winning has become more important than student wellbeing.
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Some midweek games:
Wellington College 15-16 St Pat’s Silverstream
This game was played in heavy rain with a field that reminded me of 1970s and 1980s rugby in the wet. A very good DG to win it in those conditions.
Southland BHS 43-12 Otago BHS
Palmerston North BHS 38-20 New Plymouth BHS
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@Bovidae that drop kick was outstanding given the conditions although I did wonder what some of the chasers from WC were doing they appeared to hesitate and ended up watching .
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@Steven-Harris Yeah, you see him actually take a step back to use firmer ground. The commentators said he is only a Y11. If the WC 1st 5 hadn't hit the post with the easy conversion the result could have been different.
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@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:
Some midweek games:
Wellington College 15-16 St Pat’s Silverstream
This game was played in heavy rain with a field that reminded me of 1970s and 1980s rugby in the wet. A very good DG to win it in those conditions.
Southland BHS 43-12 Otago BHS
Palmerston North BHS 38-20 New Plymouth BHS
Interestingly the winger who scored three tries for SBHS is in the Warriors system.
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@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:
@Steven-Harris Yeah, you see him actually take a step back to use firmer ground. The commentators said he is only a Y11. If the WC 1st 5 hadn't hit the post with the easy conversion the result could have been different.
Yeah the kid is a real prospect, was in the NZ u15s for basketball last year and looks to be concentrating on rugby now. Don't want to put too much pressure on the lad but he's big, skillful, kicks off both feet in general play well and as the droppie showed he has a decent temperament, certainly a player to keep an eye on.
The No. 8 for Silvesrtream is also on the Warriors books, he played well in this match.
