2018 Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 Tournament
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@mariner4life It was our under-11s.
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The 31-strong Canterbury U19 squad for the 2018 South Island Qualification series has been named. In association with the Sarah Kilner Real Estate - moving to Wellington, contact Sarah.
Canterbury will play Otago, Southland and Ta$man between 18 August and 1 September.
Player (Club)
Finlay Brewis (Canterbury University)
Reon Lowery (Burnside)
Perry Karati (Burnside )
Shilo Klein (HSOB)
Maka Mafileo* (Belfast)
Manaaki Boyle-Tiatia (Canterbury University)
Thomas Edwards (New Brighton)
Fletcher Newell (Lincoln University)
Nick Frost (Lincoln University)
Cullen Grace (Lincoln University)
Boris van Bruchem (New Brighton)
Viliami-Fehoko Fungavaka (Saracens)
Josh Bokser (Lincoln University)
Finlay Joyce (HSOB)
Connor Gordon (Lincoln University)
Mitchell Gibson (Canterbury University)
Glen Beardsley (Lincoln University)
Matthew Letoga (Canterbury University)
Luke Donaldson (Lincoln University)
Charlie Watanabe (Belfast)
Conor McManus (Christchurch)
Fergus Burke (Canterbury University)
Alex Harford (HSOB)
Dallas McLeod (Christchurch)
Sam Gilbert (Lincoln University)
Luke Glen (HSOB)
Burns Mills (Christchurch)
Coel Kerr (Lincoln University)
Connor Garden-Bachop (Lincoln University)
Fletcher Morgan (Lincoln University)
Rico Syme (Christchurch)*Subject to fitness
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@chchfanatic Josh Bokser, another player from Napier Boys. Played for New Zealand Schools Barbarians last year.
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@stargazer that’s correct. Great player who plays well above his weight.
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Last week's Seeding Match Results:
Blues Region
Auckland 50 - 3 Northland
North Harbour 27 - 10 AucklandChiefs Region
Counties Manukau 17 - 60 Bay of Plenty
Taranaki 24 - 22 WaikatoHurricanes Region
Hawke's Bay 7 - 47 Wellington
Hurricanes Heartland 12 - 3 ManawatuSouthern Region
Southland 7 - 46 Ta$man
Otago 17 - Canterbury 45 -
@stargazer Canterbury 86 Southland 8
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@chchfanatic Another big score. I saw another monster score yesterday.
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@stargazer who was that. Best Canterbury team I’ve see in years. Were resting a couple of players too
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In addition to the Canterbury v Southland result, I have been able to find these. More to follow.
Blues Region
Auckland U19 13 - 12 Auckland U19 Dev
North Harbour U19 36 - 7 Northland U19Chiefs Region
Bay of Plenty U19 94 v 0 Taranaki U19Hurricanes Region
Hawke's Bay U19 31 - 12 Manawatu U19Southern Region
Canterbury U19 86 - 8 Southland U19 -
Hell, were the Taranaki guys on a piss trip or did they have about three or four red cards awarded against them? 94 - 00 against any opposition indicates a serious mismatch or maybe BoP might just be having one of those years where all the stars and planets are in line for them.
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@higgins said in 2018 Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 Tournament:
Hell, were the Taranaki guys on a piss trip or did they have about three or four red cards awarded against them? 94 - 00 against any opposition indicates a serious mismatch or maybe BoP might just be having one of those years where all the stars and planets are in line for them.
Nah BOP are just very strong this year. Bound to happen more regularly, the population has exploded and numbers have grown faster than any other region.
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Also chatting to someone very much in the know with BOP rugby and he said that Super 8 (and other regions equivalents) have distorted the strength of rugby.
Apparently only Rotorua Boys offer schilarships for rugby in BOP, Tauranga Boys doesn't offer anything to anyone. TBC is still a magnet school obviously, but BOP rugby works hard to promote college rugby at other non 'flagship' schools. So whilst TBC sruggles in super 8, it is because they dont go out and hunt down players to fill gaps from 'lesser schools'. If they have a lack of props... they have a shite scrum that year, no good outside backs... they aint scoring many tries out wide. But it also means that the competition level under these elite schools is not to shabby in BOP, which leads to a wider pool of players to select from. Dont get me wrong RBHS and TBC are still a big level above though.
Hamilton Boys High dominates every year, but the standard elsewhere in the Waikato is pretty low. If HBHS are short of a prop, they go out and offer a scholarship.... hey presto good scrum. -
@baron-silas-greenback said in 2018 Jock Hobbs Memorial National U19 Tournament:
Also chatting to someone very much in the know with BOP rugby and he said that Super 8 (and other regions equivalents) have distorted the strength of rugby.
Apparently only Rotorua Boys offer schilarships for rugby in BOP, Tauranga Boys doesn't offer anything to anyone. TBC is still a magnet school obviously, but BOP rugby works hard to promote college rugby at other non 'flagship' schools. So whilst TBC sruggles in super 8, it is because they dont go out and hunt down players to fill gaps from 'lesser schools'. If they have a lack of props... they have a shite scrum that year, no good outside backs... they aint scoring many tries out wide. But it also means that the competition level under these elite schools is not to shabby in BOP, which leads to a wider pool of players to select from. Dont get me wrong RBHS and TBC are still a big level above though.
Hamilton Boys High dominates every year, but the standard elsewhere in the Waikato is pretty low. If HBHS are short of a prop, they go out and offer a scholarship.... hey presto good scrum.It gets pretty dull fast having HBHS number 1 and Number 2 team dominating the Hamilton Schools comp or what ever comp it is in that has St Pauls and the like.
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