Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby
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Who in the Bay has pissed off the rugby gods? Napier BHS lost its Hurricanes qualification game v Palmerston North 20-21. Again, such a close game. Haven't seen today's rep rugby results yet, but I hope we've now had the worst weekend in Bay rugby and all goes upward from now.
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@middleman said in Hasting Boys:
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Not sure who decided how Super8 was to be determined. Is it only in the last few years that they have played a final when previously winner of the round robin was champion. So this year Hastings were unbeaten after last weekend and are still unbeaten but finish second WTF.
When I saw your post, I decided to look up when they first started playing finals.
The first Super 8 final was played in 2014, when Hamilton Boys finished top of the table after the round robin, then played no. 2 Palmerston North in the Final and beat them convincingly 21-3.
In 2015, Hamilton finished on top after the round robin again, and beat no. 2 Rotorua in the final: 33-14.
Last year, Hastings ended on top and beat no. 2 Hamilton in the final: 30-8.
I agree with you; it's completely insane and unfair. In an article in the Hawke's Bay Today, they write that even the Hamilton coach thought the two schools were going to share the trophy, so he wasn't aware of this crazy tiebreaking rule, either.
They should change it, but I don't know who is responsible for this competition. Don't think NZR is involved. The Super 8 website speaks of a "New Zealand Super Eight group of schools", but that's all. It's probably some kind of association established by the schools themselves, but it's all very vague.
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Thanks for that Stargazer. I have to confess to having a vested interest being involved with Hastings Boys. You are correct that Super 8 group make their own rules but surely they should have seen the possibility of this occurring . Makes it even harder because we rarely have a team of this ability and I have been gloating a bit. BTW how did Napier lose to Palmerston? I'd rather have two Hawkes Bay going further.
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@Stargazer said in Schoolboy Rugby:
Who in the Bay has pissed off the rugby gods? Napier BHS lost its Hurricanes qualification game v Palmerston North 20-21. Again, such a close game. Haven't seen today's rep rugby results yet, but I hope we've now had the worst weekend in Bay rugby and all goes upward from now.
How can you be upset about that as Hastings killed PNBHS by 100 points earlier this season. If you can 't beat a team that lost by 100 you can't be that good yourself and are never going to go anywhere anyway. Learn the lesson from the school of hard knocks NBHS as I hang my head in abject disappointment.
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Hastings Boys will play Wellington College on Saturday for a spot in the Hurricanes final. Kick-off 12.00pm at HBHS.
The other semi-final is between St Pat's Stream and Palmerston-North BHS.
By the way, one of the co-ed semi-finals was supposed to be played between Porirua College and Wairoa College, but apparently Wairoa has defaulted, so Porirua through to the final.
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Great result for Hastings Boys: they beat Wellington College 78 to 0 today.
Next week's Hurricanes final is going to be more difficult against St Pat's Silverstream, who defeated Palmerston North BHS 50-22 and is - I think - also unbeaten this season.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=11911736
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School GIRL rugby: a composite Hawke's Bay U15 girls team has won a school girls tournament in Wellington last week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=11921191
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Good article about and interview with Hastings' Josiah Tevita-Metcalfe. I've been very impressed when watching him play this year and am quite surprised he wasn't among the players signed to the HB Academy earlier this year. I haven't heard about another union picking him up, so I hope there's still room for him. Not sure whether this has been his first year in the 1st XV and whether he's leaving school or returning for another year.
Big man, big heart - Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe
“I just saw the line and went for it. A push in the back from Danny Toala helped get me over,” Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe recalls of his winning try for Hastings Boys’ High School in the...
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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 HSOnly 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. -
@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 HSOnly 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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Are you watching '86 as I think we are up at 12.00pm against the
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By the way we got dealt to by the Wildcats in the return race down here last night so things could be better! -
@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.
