2024 School Rugby

[Dolamite]

I wonder why Xavier Leota from Kelston was playing in the Global 7s on the weekend and not for Kelston at the World Schools?

[Mauss]

@JK said in 2024 School Rugby:

WBHS won that festival last year too I think?

They did.

New Zealand continue their winning streak in the World School's Festival as Westlake take the spoils

New Zealand continue their winning streak in the World School's Festival as Westlake take the spoils.

I watched the Kelston game. Really like Aio Keith's game, just into everything, with the added benefit of polished lineout work. Baleinaikasakasa looks a real handful in the carry as well. Scrummaging might need a little work, though.

[Bovidae]

@Dolamite said in 2024 School Rugby:

I wonder why Xavier Leota from Kelston was playing in the Global 7s on the weekend and not for Kelston at the World Schools?

Yeah, I noticed that too. Leota is very mobile but I doubt many hookers were playing in the Global 7s.

[Mauss]

@Yeetyaah said in 2024 School Rugby:

We aren't a "rugby school"

Not a rugby school, he says. For your second try in the game against RTA, your backline executes a beautiful midfield switch, your loosehead throws a perfect 10-metre cut-out pass, and to top it off, you have a conversion-kicking hooker. Reads like a rugby school to me!

Congrats on the victory, awesome to see the joy of the players at the end of the game.

[Yeetyaah]

@Mauss thanks mate it was a hell of a game. I also ran on at the end and one of the boys jumped up on me.

[Yeetyaah]

Worth noting all of the New Zealand teams are undefeated so far. Kelston smoked Zambezi 50-3 I think and Westlake beat Llandovery 21-5.

[Yeetyaah]

My boys went down 30-21 against Dubai English Speaking School. If anyone watched you would have seen the comeback we mounted in the second half but wasn't enough to get it done.

[OomPB]

Paul Roos vs Kelson final

[OomPB]

Paul Roos is SA nr 1 rank and went unbeaten this year. This group is u17 and building for next year. Keenan Stoffels is a player to watch.

[OomPB]

Final now live

[Daffy Jaffy]

Finals Highlights -

[Bovidae]

Spoiler

Well done Kelston.

I have yet to watch the final but did see the last pool games from Westlake and Kelston. Both made a lot of unforced errors (dropped balls, forward passes etc).

[Frank]

The great, unbeatable Paul Roos side lose.
NZ school side wins again.

I thought SA teams were unbeatable ????

[taniwharugby]

@Frank probably thier 3rd 15 and thier u14 team too...that's the gist I get from Social media anyway.

Seriously though, good work by the Kiwi teams.

[Bovidae]

The same excuses as previous years. The NZ school year has finished too, and they still send Y13s. Kelston did have a Y10 (~14 yr old) on the wing and were missing their no.1 hooker, Xavier Leota, who is probably the best in NZ.

[Frank]

What are the rankings of Kelston and Paul Roos within NZ and South Africa?

Is Kelston NZ's best school?
Is Paul Roos SA's best school?

[Bovidae]

@Frank said in 2024 School Rugby:

Is Kelston NZ's best school?

Kelston BHS made the Top 4 as the Blues representative but lost their SF to Nelson College and the 3rd/4th game to Feilding HS. So 4th based on those results. Westlake BHS would be in the 6th-10th range.

[Frank]

So our 4th ranked side beat Paul Roos - who are what ranking in SA?

[antipodean]

@Bovidae said in 2024 School Rugby:

Spoiler

Well done Kelston.

Spoiler

And to do it having succumbed to a red card!

[OomPB]

@Frank PRG are top rank in SA. This side was their u17s , next year u18.