2021 School rugby
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@nepia Boys High & Kamo High were both strong* then Kaitaia College, Dargaville, BOI College would have good teams from time to time.
*strong being relative, I mean some quality players went through (my last year there was half a dozen that went on to play rep rugby/league, Kamo had multiple that year too) but as was always the case, we'd do visits with Auckland teams and get smoked.
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@nepia Or you can view it as three significant population bases the likes of which the upper SI doesn't have, each of which has a dominant school of a high standard. Combined with the other schools, this creates a seriously advantageous comp.
In order to gain parity with the Super 8 we'd have to combine Nelson College and Marlborough Boy's College together, have just five schools from Christchurch taking all the talent, combine all the Hanan Shield district schools together and add OBHS and SBHS and a combined team of Kings, McGlashan and Cavanagh. That'd give us a SI Super Ten.
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@bovidae do you know how the challenge for this cup come about?
Seemed all very last minute, and then WBHS are back playing Taka today.
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The Moascar Cup is the schoolboy Ranfurly Shield so all home games are automatic challenges, as well as the Top 4 games if the holder is involved. I think teams are also expected to have a certain number of other games during the season where the MC is up for grabs. It could be that RBHS was selective in the challenge they accepted.
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@shark said in 2021 School rugby:
@nepia Or you can view it as three significant population bases the likes of which the upper SI doesn't have, each of which has a dominant school of a high standard. Combined with the other schools, this creates a seriously advantageous comp.
In order to gain parity with the Super 8 we'd have to combine Nelson College and Marlborough Boy's College together, have just five schools from Christchurch taking all the talent, combine all the Hanan Shield district schools together and add OBHS and SBHS and a combined team of Kings, McGlashan and Cavanagh. That'd give us a SI Super Ten.
I actually don't know what the argument is any more. You were questioning whether Super 8 deserved to be ranked second best schools comp (I think the data shows that for at least two decades it's been the best) and that's now morphed into why South Island isn't the best.
Also, I don't think you need to combine Nelson College and Malborough Boys into one - they have bigger rolls than Hastings and Gisborne.
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@nepia said in 2021 School rugby:
@shark said in 2021 School rugby:
@nepia Or you can view it as three significant population bases the likes of which the upper SI doesn't have, each of which has a dominant school of a high standard. Combined with the other schools, this creates a seriously advantageous comp.
In order to gain parity with the Super 8 we'd have to combine Nelson College and Marlborough Boy's College together, have just five schools from Christchurch taking all the talent, combine all the Hanan Shield district schools together and add OBHS and SBHS and a combined team of Kings, McGlashan and Cavanagh. That'd give us a SI Super Ten.
I actually don't know what the argument is any more. You were questioning whether Super 8 deserved to be ranked second best schools comp (I think the data shows that for at least two decades it's been the best) and that's now morphed into why South Island isn't the best.
Also, I don't think you need to combine Nelson College and Malborough Boys into one - they have bigger rolls than Hastings and Gisborne.
I'm just pointing out why the Super 8 is strong, and and why you don't see a lot of SI success in the Top Four of late. The Super 8 is the cream of the talent across a vast swathe of the North Island. Meanwhile the South Island (probably with a lesser population than Waikato, BOP, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu and Taranaki) is split into two regions and as such is seriously diluted. In order to create a a decent sized comp, the Miles Championship has to include teams such as Roncalli, Aoraki Combined, Selwyn combined and Waimea combined. You're just not going to get as good a standard when every second week is a romp.
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Results - Saturday, 22 May 2021:
Preseason/traditionals/sports exchanges:
- Hastings BHS v Scots College - cancelled
- St Pat's Wngtn 19 - 29 Napier BHS
- St Pat's Silverstream 33 - 31 Palmerston North BHS (HT: 21 - 7)
Auckland 1A
Round 1- Kelston BHS 44 - 7 St Kentigern
- Mt Albert Grammar 30 - 20 Sacred Heart College
- Aorere College 3 - 38 Kings College
- Dilworth School 19 - 17 Tangaroa College
- Liston College 16 - 31 De La Salle College
- St Peter's College 29 - 10 Auckland Grammar
Harbour 1A
Round 3- Westlake BHS 66 - 10 Rangitoto College
- Takapuna Grammar 23 - 22 Whangārei BHS
- Orewa College 10 - 26 Massey HS
- Rosmini College 9 - 12 Manurewa HS
Central North Island
Round 2- Wesley College 12 - 20 Lindisfarne College ???
- St Peter's Cambridge 28 - 15 Whanganui Collegiate
- St John's (Hamilton) 29 - 0 Francis Douglas MC
- Feilding HS 22 - 12 St John's (Hastings)
- Rathkeale College 8 - 38 St Paul's Collegiate
Miles Toyota Championship & Cup
Round 3- St Thomas College 32 - 23 Marlborough BC
- Mid Canterbury combined 3 - 100 Christ’s College
- Nelson College 14 - 12 St Bede's College
- Timaru BHS 45 - 12 Waimea combined
- Rangiora HS 21 - 10 Roncalli combined
- Shirley BHS 40 - 3 Selwyn Schools Combined
- St Andrews College 24 - 13 Christchurch BHS
Otago Premier Schools (Premiership)
Round 2- Southland Boys v Otago Boys (Wed 19 May 2021 - postponed)
- John McGlashan 24 - 36 King's HS
- St Kevin's 28 - 29 Dunstan HS
Otago Premier Schools (Championship)
- Otago Combined Co-Ed 10 - 17 Wakatipu BHS
- Otago BHS 2nd XV 27 - 24 Waitaki BHS
- South Otago HS 23 - 19 Mt Aspiring College
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And sure enough, three of the aforementioned four combined teams get hammered. And the other lost to a poor (this year to date) Rangiora High.
STAC beat CBHS which is a good result (any time CBHS drops a game is welcome), and in what might be a final preview Nelson squeaks past St Bedes.
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Result round 4 Miles Toyota Championship:
- Marlborough BC 22- 29 Shirley BHS (Tue 25 May)
A few games tomorrow, Wednesday 26 May 2021:- Scots College v Napier College - 11.15am
- St Pat's Wellington v Wellington College - 1.15pm (Evans Bay Park) - livestream on https://sideline.live/play/14727
- St Pat's Silverstream 2nd XV v Hato Pāora College 1st XV - 1.30pm
- St John's College (Hamilton) v Rotorua BHS - 3.00pm
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@taniwharugby said in 2021 School rugby:
@nepia yeah the North Harbour one, TBF it has helped them retain some players and improved the standard of WBHS, but some still go to Auckland schools.
Hosting Westlake this weekend by the looks. Will you be able to get along mate?
I should have popped down to watch WHBS playing at TGS last weekend as its just a street away from us but we were up at mahurangi for my sons game at 11am so didnt get back in time.
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@stargazer Couldn't make it to Strathmore for the Scots v NBHS game at the last minute. Do you have any final result yet?
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@Stargazer A bit of fiddling round sort of gets me to a live stream replay (but is buffering for ages so will give up on it) It looks like the score that is showing on the screen that I l;ogged in on was Scots 10 - 12 NBHS at what looked like the teams were lining up to shake hands. Will keep trying to see what I can some up with.
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@higgins I also found that livestream. It's no longer live and I can guarantee you that the final score is not 10 - 12. In case anyone would like to watch the game before knowing the score, I'll hide the score from view:
:::Scots College 15 - 30 Napier BHS
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Here's the link to the video:
