Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby
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@Stargazer Nice work by Hastings and Napier Boys' as I think both their opponents have been decent so far this year?
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Has the post mortem been released from the Scots College match. The scoreline beggars belief and one can only assume NBHS played most of the 2nd XV and the 3rds took on Hutt Valley Firsts for a scoreline like that to eventuate. Maybe Scots played that sprinting sensation and he might have streaked away for about ten runaway tries?
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@Stargazer Scots have a gun backline this year, including Roderick Solo & Ethan Webster-Nonu so it wouldn't surprise me if they won by a big amount.
This ranking system from the High School Top 200 website gives you a fair idea of where Scots and Napier rank nationwide:
- Hastings BHS
- Rotorua BHS
- Otago BHS
- Hamilton BHS
- Auckland GS
- King’s College
- St Kentigerns College
- Kelston BHS
- Scots College
- Sacred Heart College
- Nelson College
- St Bedes College
- Christchurch BHS
- St Peter’s College
- New Plymouth BHS
- De La Salle College
- Westlake BHS
- Tauranga Boys College
- Napier BHS
- St Paul’s Collegiate
- St Patrick’s Silverstream
- Palmerston North BHS
- Southland BHS
- John McGlashan College
- St Andrews College
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@Canes4life That ranking is from a guy who has never given any detail on how he ranks schools, only that he got his ranking system from the USA. I remember how he ranked schools the last few years, and he was way off.
Napier Boys have been good thus far, so I don't think a good backline from Scots can make such a big difference. I may be wrong, but until more info becomes available, I'm inclined to believe that either the score was wrong or something happened during that game (like red card(s) being handed out) or good players missing from the Napier line-up.
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@Stargazer Yeah you would think something like a card would of had to eventuate for the score to blow out like that. Scots have been dominant in Wellington though so who knows.
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@Number-10 Yeah, just read that article. Unfortunately, no info on what happened in that game.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12238585
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@Stargazer said in Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby:
@Nepia Yes, they have been. Napier was trailing for most of the game, too, but managed to get a late try to win it. Some really big players in that Gisborne team.
Haven't watched the Hastings game yet.I was talking to the parents of one of the NBHS players when they were down here when the 2nds played Wellington College and they told me the GBHS have apparently closed their boarding hostel so I guess Napier's Scinde House are getting some of the big back country farm boys that presumably made Gisbrone strong in the past.
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Draw for Saturday, 15 June 2019:
Super 8
12.10pm: Napier BHS 1st XV v Hastings BHS 1st XV @ Napier Boys #1 - this game will be broadcast live on Sky Sport 1
10.15am: Napier BHS 2nd XV v Hastings BHS 2nd XVCentral North Island
11.00am: St John’s College, Hamilton v Lindisfarne College @ St John's , Hamilton
11.00am: Whanganui Collegiate v St John's College, Hastings @ Whanganui CollegiateAll Super 8 games can also be watched via sideline app (https://www.sidelineapp.co.nz/)
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Really good to see that we have a good 10 developing in the Bay again; Latrell Ah Kiong is in hist second year of playing 1st XV for Hastings, but he's only in year 13 IIRC.
Also some promising midfielders in Jayden Stok (played on the wing last year), Jack Sheridan (both Napier) and Jordan Thompson-Dunn (Hastings).
