The Silver Fern

@WoodysRFC At the game. Had a good view of it. It happened so fast in real time it looked like a try in person.
Video replays obviously say no. No TMO for them.

Reckon most refs would give it 8 out of ten times.

@Nepia Two of the team - who have been with FAHS for two years are from Fiji.

Another Fijian lives in Feilding with his parents who work as a teacher and meat processing operator and have lived in Feilding for 4 years.

Winger with a double banger name is Maori and African.

But yeah - we know that Hastings is a proper local only school eh.
Nope they not. Seen the paper work.

@Nepia The people running the FAHS programme are local people. 3 are members of the school staff and 4 are parents/members of the public.

Every single lad in the side was under 18 at the start of January as per NZ SS rules.
The core of that side have been in the side two years. The Captain started playing when he was in year 10

As it was Massey/Palmy turned on a glorious day as it often does these days - and the fact is that the Hastings side was unfit. They were gassed by halftime. Never seen so much walking.

Careful with stones in glasshouse.

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

Whangarei BHS.

Opps bad editing...

I think with that trophy you go nuts with the camera straight away. Don't delay!!
Looking at PB postings it certainly seems to have been the case.

Match Details for Schools/Under 18 sides in 2025

Saturday 20th September (St Paul’s Collegiate, Hamilton)
NZ Schools vs NZ Barbarians U18 – 2pm

Saturday 20th September (St Paul’s Collegiate, Hamilton)
NZ Māori U18 v Chiefs Selection – 12pm

Thursday 25th September (St Paul’s Collegiate, Hamilton)
NZ Māori U18 v NZ Barbarians U18 – 2pm

Monday 29th September (Viking Rugby Club, Canberra)
NZ Schools vs Australia U18 – 4:05pm

Saturday 4th October (Viking Rugby Club, Canberra)
NZ Schools vs Australia U18 – 4:05pm

Results from matches heading to 2025 Top 4 weekend:

North Harbour Final
Westlake BHS 39 - 18 Whangarei BHS

Auckland 1A Final
King’s College 36 - 27 St Kent's

Chiefs SFs
Hamilton BHS 33 - 34 Rotorua BHS
FDMC 5 - 36 Wesley College

Hurricanes SFs
Palmerston North BHS 28 - 34 Feilding HS (Moascar Cup Match)
St Pat’s Silverstream 20 - 20 Hastings BHS

South Island Top 4 Final
Southland BHS 32 - 29 Christchurch BHS

Home team normally first - unless neutral final venue.

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

Feilding HS have a habit of winning the CNI final even as the lower seed.

Last four years the top team from Round Robin has not won the CNI Final.
2022 St Johns Top - FAHS won final
2023 St Johns Top - FAHS won final
2024 FAHS Top - St Johns won final
2025 St Peter's Top - FAHS won final

2022, 2024 and 2025 the top teams had unbeaten round robin results.

CNI Rugby

The home of the Central North Island 1st XV rugby competition. Nine schools are competing for the Taine Randell Cup in 2025.

@Bovidae The first one particularly so.
Rotorua had a young side last year - and went fairly well. Looks to be that they are going to be running hot this year. SJC forward park much the same as last year. New young backline looking at the names.

@Chester-Draws
If that is a sides ambition why not set it down to target it?
Napier also guilty previously of being modest.

I'm sorry can you explain your manage to "catch" comment? That seems somewhat resentful.

@Canes4life He is a great kid as well. Top drawer fellow.
Definitely one for the Cane's to keep.

@Bovidae The 2 oldest Balenaisa brothers.
There are another 2 coming through the ranks!!

PNBHS from 2023 - seen plenty of schools do this.
Just setting out potential fixtures through the year for families to organise for the possibility - not everyone lives locally in major metro areas - both Schools with hostels with a widespread catchment.

@Canes4life Good to see Cole behind a pack providing front foot ball. He was an outstanding player at Rathkeale playing at 10 and surviving on scraps and often going backwards.
He would have been enjoying that ball from Tamati.

@Bovidae What a shocker

I thought one of them might have changed at the half. Nope.

@Chester-Draws
Feilding did it last year.
Be ambitious.

FAHS Feilding High School 1st XV 2025 Fixtures

29th March - Wellington College - Feilding
5th April - New Plymouth BHS - Waverley
12th April - St Patrick's College - Feilding
26th April - Gisborne BHS - Gisborne
3rd May - Palmerston North BHS - Palmerston North
10th May - Francis Douglas MC – New Plymouth
17th May - St John's College - Feilding
24th May - St Peter's School - Feilding
7th June - St John's College - Hamilton
14th June - Lindisfarne College - Hastings
20th June - St Paul's Collegiate - Feilding
13th July - Napier BHS - Napier
19th July - Wesley College - Paerata
26th July - Whanganui Collegiate - Feilding
2nd August - CNI Semifinals - TBD
9th August - CNI Finals - TBD
Late August - Hurricanes Semifinal - TBD
Late August - Hurricanes Final - DOR

@Mauss

Raviyawa and Fakava are still at school. They will be in the FAHS 1st XV this year.
Fakava does not turn 18 until June.

Palazzo at PNBHS is a Year 13 student will lead PNBHS again this year.

Wallace has had his foot in a moon boot recently. Seems to have ongoing issues.

@Bovidae Yup that is Johnny.

@Mauss One of the NZ Schools locks has been ruled out through injury and Johnny Falloon from Rathkeale has been called in from Barbarians. He is a big 6' 7" fellow and has some heft about him - but can be absent at times in a match. Aerially he has a lot of work to do. Because of his size - Rathkeale struggled to lift him as they didn't have the units to do so for the entire match.

I'm surprised that George Prouting from NBHS was not named in any side. Best lock I have seen play in person this year. Great in the air. Massive ticker and works hard the entire game. Tocker definitely more of a 6 and tends to go missing at times. His pace however is incredible. He can really move.

@Bovidae Viljoen is the addition.