Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV

[Chris B.]

@Canes4life That's in the fine print of their article - he didn't play first XV at Nelson College.

But also Sak Taulafo has more than 40 test caps for Samoa, so probably warrants selection regardless.

All time Nelson College team incorporating old school ABs would have some more changes - they've only considered people who played in the pro era.

[Canes4life]

If anyone has a bit of time here's a look inside school rugby, following St Pats Silverstream. Featuring players like Rocco Berry (Warriors), Josh Southall, Iona Apineru (NZ Schools)

[JC]

@taniwharugby You might want to have ex ‘canes Mike Russell ahead of Speight.

[Bovidae]

I watched both play for Waikato and I never saw Russell run down a NZ sprint champion, as Speight did.

[Nepia]

@JC said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@taniwharugby You might want to have ex ‘canes Mike Russell ahead of Speight.

Maybe Speight's AB status gives him the nod over Russell?

[Dice]

MAGS:

15 Matthew Ridge
14 Paul Williams/Caleb Clarke
13 Joe Stanley/Jack Goodhue
12 Sonny Bill Williams
11 Bryan Williams
10 Mick Bremner
9 Pele Cowley
8 Steven Luatua
7 Mark Brooke-Cowden/Isaiah Papali'i
6 Andrew Blowers
5 Josh Goodhue
4 Michael Fatialofa
3 Olo Brown
2 Ron Urlich
1 Alex Hodgman

Might've missed some better options.

[African Monkey]

@Dice No Mark Brooke-Cowden? The only others who could make a case that I can think of are Alex Hodgman and David Smith.

[Dice]

@African-Monkey Brooke-Cowden definitely deserves to be in there. I'd bracket him with Papali'i because Papali'i had one of the best seasons I've ever seen by an openside at school level.

Forgot about Hodgman. I might give him the edge over Lindenmuth.

I thought about David Smith, but left him off because the other options looked good enough. He was really dominate at 1st XV level though.

[sparky]

@shark said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@shark OK. Its up now.

CC forwards:

8
7 J Hobbs
6
5 S Maling
4 J Ryan
3
2
1 J Moody

Can they include Reuban Thorne at 6 who currently works at Christ's and coaches the First XV.

[KiwiMurph]

@Magpie_in_aus said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

Who else would have had good squads

Rotoruabhs
Welling coll
St kents?
Mags
obhs 2xv (behind team McCaw)
Nelson college
Palmy boys
Te sure?
Kings

I'll have a crack at a St Kents 23

1 S Mafileo
2 J Christian
3 J Afoa
4 S Scrafton
5 P Parkinson
6 J Kaino
7 B Gibson
8 D Papalii
9 S Nock
10 T Lavea
11 J Rokocoko
12 TJ Faiane
13 S Tamanivalu (edit)
14 B Ennor
15 M Duffie

Reserves

16 M Morrison
17 J Afoa (James)
18 J Firth
19 J Edwards (Kaino covering lock?)
20 S Surridge
21 F Christie
22 R Reihana
23 T Tuipulotu

[Bovidae]

@sparky said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@shark said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@shark OK. Its up now.

CC forwards:

8
7 J Hobbs
6
5 S Maling
4 J Ryan
3
2
1 J Moody

Can they include Reuban Thorne at 6 who currently works at Christ's and coaches the First XV.

He went to New Plymouth BHS, so no.

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

I'll have a crack at a St Kents 23

Tamanivalu went there too, and it looks like Luatua was poached from MAGS.

[pakman]

@KiwiMurph said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@Magpie_in_aus said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

Who else would have had good squads

Rotoruabhs
Welling coll
St kents?
Mags
obhs 2xv (behind team McCaw)
Nelson college
Palmy boys
Te sure?
Kings

I'll have a crack at a St Kents 23

1 S Mafileo
2 J Christian
3 J Afoa
4 S Scrafton
5 P Parkinson
6 J Kaino
7 B Gibson
8 D Papalii
9 S Nock
10 T Lavea
11 J Rokocoko
12 TJ Faiane
13 S Tamanivalu (edit)
14 B Ennor
15 M Duffie

Reserves

16 M Morrison
17 J Afoa (James)
18 J Firth
19 J Edwards (Kaino covering lock?)
20 S Surridge
21 F Christie
22 R Reihana
23 T Tuipulotu

Kieran Read had a brief spell there.

[African Monkey]

@Bovidae He was always a MAGS boy.

[Bovidae]

@African-Monkey St Kents have some influence then!

[African Monkey]

@Bovidae Yeah don't know where that came from haha. I remember the semi final in 2009 which was his last year at school when MAGS played St Peter's where he was up against Pat Tuipulotu at lineout time.

[shark]

Anyone done NPBHS? Can anyone? And I think Southland BHS could be interesting.

[shark]

"Southland Boys’ has always had a proud tradition in sport and is a strong rugby school, naming 22 All Blacks amongst its Old Boys and being the school that has produced the most All Black rugby captains."

[Dice]

Kelston Boys:

15 Mils Muliaina
14 Lolagi Visinia/David Fusitua
13 Anthony Tuitavake
12 Sam Tuitupou
11 Va'aiga Tuigamala
10 Loki Crichton
9 Jason Hewett/Kevin Senio
8 Sione Lauaki
7 Apollo Perelini
6 Mose Tuiali'i
5 Scott Scrafton
4 Nathan Hughes/Gerard Cowley-Tuioti
3 Kees Meeuws
2 Trevor Leota
1 Paea Fa'anunu

Some heavy hitters in this team.

[shark]

OK I've found the SBHS list of ABs. It doesn't list them by position and there's a lot of the 21 I've not heard of (15 of the 21 played before 1965 and none of them are famous All Blacks) so here are the contemporary ones:

15 M Muliaina
14
11
13 S Pokere
12
10 B McKechnie
9
8
7 P Henderson
6
5
4
3 C Dermody
2 C Flynn
1 J Mackintosh