2022 School rugby
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Hamilton BHS and Westlake BHS's traditional preseason games today. First game for Hamilton while I was told that Westlake have played 3 games so far. There looked to be plenty of new faces in the Hamilton BHS team compared to last year, and a few missing. They certainly don't have the biggest forward pack. In fact Westlake BHS were bigger, but Hamilton BHS's speed out wide was the difference.
1st XV: Hamilton BHS 29 - Westlake BHS 5
2nd XV: Hamilton BHS 41 - Westlake BHS 0 -
A few more mid-week preseason results:
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
St Thomas CC 19 - 33 John McGlashan College
Liston College v Rosmini College ??Thursday, 14 April 2022
Lindisfarne College 5 - 38 Napier BHS
Hastings BHS 20 - 29 Kelston BHS
Rotorua BHS 31 - 12 De La Salle College -
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@bovidae Feilding must have a really good squad this year. They've already beaten Hastings Boys, New Plymouth Boys and now St Pat's Silverstream. I know it's only preseason and not all squads are complete yet (Hastings Boys is still missing key players), but still quite impressive.
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@stargazer And I don't think that Vernon Bason has played in all of their games either, certainly not the earlier games. I might go and watch FAHS when they play a CNI game in Hamilton. (Edit: vs St Paul's on June 25 might be the one).
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A few more mid-week results:
Mon 18 April 2022
St Thomas College (Cant) 14 - 19 Tauranga BC
Rangiora Coll 22 - 31 Whanganui Coll)
St Kevin's Coll 14 - 48 Mid Canterbury Combined
Tue 19 April 2022
St Kevin's Coll 17 - 39 Selwyn Combined
St Paul's Collegiate 7 - 8 Gisborne BHS
Wed 20 April 2022
John McGlashan Coll 14 - 28 Tauranga BC
St Kevin's Coll 0 - 22 Whanganui Coll
Thu 21 April 2022
Rosmini College 0 - 45 Napier BHS
Selwyn Combined 31 - 14 Waitaki BHS
There were way more games, this week, but most schools aren't very good at promoting their games and posting the results! -
A few of this weekend's games:
Sat 23 April 2022
Sacred Heart College v Napier BHS - 12.00pm at Sacred Heart | livestream: https://sideline.live/play/17023
Auckland Grammar v Palmerston North BHS - 11.00am at AGS
Christchurch BHS v Southland BHS - 12.30pm
St Paul's Collegiate (H'ton) v St Peter's Coll - 11.00am at St Pauls'
Kelston BHS v Ponsonby 21s
Sun 24 April 2022
Nelson College v Tauranga BC - Sun 24 April 2022, at Nelson Coll -
The Super 8 teams have done well in the last week, beating some of the big schools from Auckland and the South Island. That suggests a very competitive Super 8 this season. It's hard to know if Auckland Grammar and Sacred Heart are really that weak until the 1A starts.
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@Bovidae Was just going to post some results.
Saturday, 23 April 2022
Sacred Heart College 7 - 55 Napier BHS
Auckland Grammar 17 - 34 Palmerston North BHS
Christchurch BHS 19 - 27 Southland BHS
St Paul's Collegiate 5 - 26 St Peter's College
St Pat's Silverstream 31 - 12 Rongotai College
Sunday, 24 April 2022
Nelson College 12 - 22 Tauranga BC
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Hastings BHS 50 - 27 Sacred Heart College
St Bede's 46 - 0 St Pat's Wgtn -
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Fixtures - 30 April - 1 May 2022
There may be more games:
Saturday 30 April 2022
- Lindisfarne College v Mana College - 1.00pm at Lindisfarne
- St Peter's School (Cambridge) v Mt Albert Grammar -1.00pm at St Peter's
- Wakatipu HS v Dunstan HS -at Alexandra
- Rotorua BHS v St Peter's College - 12.30pm at RBHS
- Whanganui Collegiate v Palmerston North BHS - 12.00pm at WCS
- Scots College v Rongotai College - 12.30pm at Scots
- Auckland Grammar v Tauranga BC - 12.00pm at AGS
- Whangārei BHS v St Kent's - 12.30pm at WBHS
- Game of 3 halves:
Wairarapa College v Rathkeale College - 11.15am at WaiCol (game of 3 halves)
St Pat's Wgtn v Rathkeale College - 12.00pm at WaiCol (game of 3 halves)
St Pat's Wgtn v Wairarapa College - 12.45pm at WaiCol (game of 3 halves)
Sunday 1 May 2022
Feilding HS v Gisborne BHS - 12.30pm at Elwood Park, Hastings -
@Stargazer said in 2022 School rugby:
St John's College (Hamilton) 28 - 17 Kelston BHS
That's a surprise result.
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Kelston lost a lot of players from last year i assume?
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@Left-Right-Out-0 said in 2022 School rugby:
Kelston lost a lot of players from last year i assume?
All teams will have lost plenty of players. The pre-season results have been all over the place.
For context, St John's are usually the 3rd rated of the Waikato CNI schools (behind St Paul's and St Peter's) but have attracted some named coaches. They could be on the rise again.
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WBHS went down to St Kents 5-32, after trailing 5-10 at halftime.
WBHS apparently had a number of starters out, so not a bad effort by all accounts.
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Hard to know how much to read into preseason. Combinations and game plans still coming together. Looking forward to the 1A comp this year after seeing some of these scores. Wellington comp looks to slowly be making a comeback, or maybe its just Scots and Stream
