2024 School Rugby

[Mauss]

@Yeetyaah said in 2024 School Rugby:

We aren't a "rugby school"

Not a rugby school, he says. For your second try in the game against RTA, your backline executes a beautiful midfield switch, your loosehead throws a perfect 10-metre cut-out pass, and to top it off, you have a conversion-kicking hooker. Reads like a rugby school to me!

Congrats on the victory, awesome to see the joy of the players at the end of the game.

[Yeetyaah]

@Mauss thanks mate it was a hell of a game. I also ran on at the end and one of the boys jumped up on me.

[Yeetyaah]

Worth noting all of the New Zealand teams are undefeated so far. Kelston smoked Zambezi 50-3 I think and Westlake beat Llandovery 21-5.

[Yeetyaah]

My boys went down 30-21 against Dubai English Speaking School. If anyone watched you would have seen the comeback we mounted in the second half but wasn't enough to get it done.

[OomPB]

Paul Roos vs Kelson final

[OomPB]

Paul Roos is SA nr 1 rank and went unbeaten this year. This group is u17 and building for next year. Keenan Stoffels is a player to watch.

[OomPB]

Final now live

[Daffy Jaffy]

Finals Highlights -

[Bovidae]

Spoiler

Well done Kelston.

I have yet to watch the final but did see the last pool games from Westlake and Kelston. Both made a lot of unforced errors (dropped balls, forward passes etc).

[Frank]

The great, unbeatable Paul Roos side lose.
NZ school side wins again.

I thought SA teams were unbeatable ????

[taniwharugby]

@Frank probably thier 3rd 15 and thier u14 team too...that's the gist I get from Social media anyway.

Seriously though, good work by the Kiwi teams.

[Bovidae]

The same excuses as previous years. The NZ school year has finished too, and they still send Y13s. Kelston did have a Y10 (~14 yr old) on the wing and were missing their no.1 hooker, Xavier Leota, who is probably the best in NZ.

[Frank]

What are the rankings of Kelston and Paul Roos within NZ and South Africa?

Is Kelston NZ's best school?
Is Paul Roos SA's best school?

[Bovidae]

@Frank said in 2024 School Rugby:

Is Kelston NZ's best school?

Kelston BHS made the Top 4 as the Blues representative but lost their SF to Nelson College and the 3rd/4th game to Feilding HS. So 4th based on those results. Westlake BHS would be in the 6th-10th range.

[Frank]

So our 4th ranked side beat Paul Roos - who are what ranking in SA?

[antipodean]

@Bovidae said in 2024 School Rugby:

Spoiler

Well done Kelston.

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And to do it having succumbed to a red card!

[OomPB]

@Frank PRG are top rank in SA. This side was their u17s , next year u18.