Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV
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Another team selection thread in lieu of any legit sports action!
Some schools such as CBHS and several Auckland schools will have an embarrassment of riches and can probably field a XV composed entirely of All Blacks, but I'm sure there'll be some interesting line-ups.
Where a guy went to two High Schools - and I'm thinking of the likes of Richie Mo'unga (Riccarton HS, St Andrews College) and Siate Tokolahi (Sacred Heart, St Bedes College) - I'm going to rule that they can qualify for both, as it's too hard to define which one should take preference.
I need a hooker, so by all means jump in:
St Bedes College
15 Kevin Stuart (NZ)
14 Bill Meates (NZ)
11 Solomon Alaimalo (SR)
13 Kieran Keane (NZ)
12 Cameron McIntyre (SR)
10 Jon Preston (NZ)
9 Jamie Nutbrown (SR)
8 Elliot Dixon (NZ)
7 James Lentjes (SR) / Johnny Leo'o (SR) / Billy Harmon (SR) / Jonathon Poff (SR)
6 Michael Leitch (Japan) / Josh Navidi (Wales)
5 Jake Burns (NZ) / Luke Thompson (Japan) / Kevin Meates (NZ) / Will Tucker (NPC)
4 Andy Earl (NZ) / Vance Stewart (NZ) / James Tucker (SR)
3 Patrick Rhind (NZ) / Siate Tokolahi (SR)
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1 Jules le Lievre (NZ) / Chris Earl (NPC) / Tristan Moran (SR) -
Glen Jackson
Graeme Aldridge played 1st XV tooEnd
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Slim pickings for Hastings Boys, here's the ABs I know about (3 big names in Robertson, Davis and Kronfeld but not many others) and Super players off the top of my head.
Roger Randle
Bruce Robertson
Bill Davis
Bob Burgess (1970s AB who spent a year at Hastings Boys)
Danny Lee/Alby Mathewson
Hubert McLean (1930s AB)
Josh Kronfeld
Hika Elliot.Super Rugby
Ben Tamiefuna
Karl Lowe
Marino Mikaele-Tu'u
Tone Kopalani
Sam Anderson-Heather
Folau Fakatava
Devon Flanders
Danny Toala -
CBHS, without delving into any archives:
15 C Slade / W Jordan
14 S Hamilton
11 D Gibson
13 A Leinert-Brown / N Mauger
12 A Mauger
10 D Carter / A Mehrtens
9 Scott Hansen
8 N Manu
7 M Todd
6 A Thompson
5 L Romano
4 B Retallick
3 O Franks
2 A Dixon
1 B Franks / D Hewett / R Loe -
http://nelsonweekly.co.nz/2019/11/nelson-colleges-greatest-team-revealed/
Someone already did Nelson College last year. If the teams actually played tomorrow, this would be reasonably competitive! I suspect there's a few old time ABs missing.
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@shark Yeah - he mainly played No. 8 at provincial level as I recall.
I wonder when Luke Romano left Nelson - be handy if he was a third former at Nelson College!
Edit: I see in the notes below the team a requirement that you had to have played for the NC first XV - which ruled out some interesting candidates. Maybe Simon Mannering could play lock!
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The Lindisfarne Factory:
Hard to get into the back threeTimu Fullback
Dagg Wing
Mason Emerson - Wing
Bridge - Center
2nd 5 - Mick Duncan (2 Tests 1971)
Tiaan Falcon - 1st 5
Half Back - Hamish Natush (can't spell his name pretty sure he made NZ 17's or NZ schools before breaking his neck)
Taine Randell - 8
Hugh Renton - 7
Sam Goodwin - 6
I will reluctantly cover 5
Parsons - 4
Campbell Johnstone - Prop
Tim Cadwallader (Hooker)
Eddie Coombs - PropReserves: Richard Kineer 1st 5
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Without digging into the past records for NPC players.
Hamilton BHS
15 Jared Payne (Ireland)/Jack Tuck (NZ)/Daryl Halligan (RL)
14 Sean Maitland (Scotland)/Henry Speight (Aust)/Declan O'Donnell (SR)
13 Scott McLeod (NZ)/Bert Cooke (NZ)/Save Tukola (SR)
12 Lachie Cameron (NZ)/Rhys Ellison (NZM)/Dwayne Sweeney (NZM)/Jackson Willison (NZM)/Quinn Tupaea (SR)/Orbyn Leger (SR)
11 Sevu Reece (NZ)/Emoni Narawa (SR)
10 Bryn Gatland (SR)/Trent Renata (SR)
9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow (NZ)/Kevin Greene (NZ)
8 Warren Gatland (NZ)/Jahrome Brown (SR Brumbies)
7 Hugh Blake (Scotland)
6 Tom Coventry (NPC)
5 Tiwini Hemi (NZM)/Josh Lord (SR)
4 Richard Coventry (SR)
3 ???
2 Ron Hemi (NZ)/Aled de Malmanche (NZ)
1 Toby Smith (Aust)/Ayden Johnstone (SR)/Fraser Armstrong (SR)I have selected Gats at no.8 as that is where he played schoolboy rugby.
Plenty of depth in the outside backs but lacking in some positions in the forwards.
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@Nepia Tivani Fomai would slide in there somewhere surely. Magpies/Samoa and also responsible for the hardest I've ever been tackled in my life.
Rosenberg might get a mention. And Alex Tulou has been playing in France for the last decade in the Top League and was at one stage in the French wider training squad.Im only just hearing about Corona Virus now because he tackled me so hard at school he knocked me back a few months in time.
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@Magpie_in_aus Alex Tulou was the one I couldn’t think of his name. Rosenberg didn’t really kick on.
Imagine how much better this team would have been without Lindersfarne and it’s chequebook pinching he likes of Randell and Dagg. 😏
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@Nepia Taine lived closer to Te Aute....
Dagg wouldn't have made it past 5th form if he went to HBHS....although he probably could have joined the 'sports academy' and done 4th-year 5th form with a few of the others.Anyway, both were academics (well in Taines case he actually was) and only found out they had sporting talent once it was nurtured at the farne'.
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@Magpie_in_aus said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:
@Nepia Taine lived closer to Te Aute....
Dagg wouldn't have made it past 5th form if he went to HBHS....although he probably could have joined the 'sports academy' and done 4th-year 5th form with a few of the others.Anyway, both were academics (well in Taines case he actually was) and only found out they had sporting talent once it was nurtured at the farne'.
Taine was from Flaxmere, which is not closer to TA and he definitely went to Lindersfarne on a sporting scholarship (along with Christian Makarere at the same time).
Yep on Gordon Falcon.
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@Tim said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:
Can we do a Westlake team, or will we need Rosmini as well?
- Ron Williams
- Liam Barry (teacher only?? think he went to Rosmini)
- Dillon Hunt
- Frano Botica
- Luke McAlister
- Nick Evans
Not sure who else - have trawl the north harbour side I guess. Our basketball team would be a whole lot better - prob best starting 5 in the country
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