Hawkes Bay Schoolboy Rugby

[Higgins]

Hold your breath @Nepia as Rotorua score a lovely try in the left hand corner very close to time. With Mr. Bredin on the whistle there might be time for a restart.

[Higgins]

Rest easy @Nepia as Mr. Bredin does have his watch keeping accurate time and blows for full time after the conversion kick misses.
Final Score Hastings BHS 29 - 24 Rotorua BHS. Next game up for your outfit is away this Saturday against Tauranga Boys College and for Rotorua followers its Palmy who play them in Rotorua also on Saturday.
Hastings played nice enterprising football (as did Rotorua) and botched at least two tries when the final pass to unmarked players close to the tryline were poor and landed short of the feet of the intended recipient. Hastings have a very solid and cohesive forward pack and also have a lot of players that will be back next season (and some who still have two years left) so things are looking extremely promising for them to once again regain control of the number one step in schoolboy rankings.

[Nepia]

Cheers for the updates @Higgins, was in meetings this morning so couldn't watch the game. Good to get a win of Rotorua even if they're not having one of their stellar years.

[Stargazer]

Thanks for those updates @Higgins. I had several appointments that prevented me from watching the game live. I hope to find the time to watch it later. I'll have close look at McNaughten again. He impressed me in previous games and i hope we have in him another good loosie for the future, that is, if he's not poached by another province. I hope the bloody vultures weren't circling around the field again.

[Higgins]

@Stargazer He looked more of a Thomas the Tank No 8 than a Marino Mikaele Tu'u one but then again that just might have been the way they wanted him to play today.
By the way are you going to find a gap in your schedule for the Shield game tomorrow?

[Stargazer]

@Higgins Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it. It's a pity, because I like these preseason RS matches and the Hutt Rec is a good ground for it.

[Stargazer]

It's a good thing that the club rugby season is over, because they'd struggle to get enough referees with all the school games, tomorrow (Sat 22 July 2023).

Central North Island
Round 8

• Lindisfarne College v St Peter's Cambridge - 12.00pm

I haven't seen a team line-up of SJC, yet.

[Stargazer]

Super 8
Round 6

• Hastings BHS v Tauranga BC - 12.00pm
• Napier BHS v New Plymouth BHS - 12.00pm

[Stargazer]

The link to the livestream of the Hastings game hasn't been posted on YouTube (yet).
The 2nd XV game starts at 10.30am.

[Stargazer]

The 2nd XV game starts at 10.45am.

[Stargazer]

This should be the link to the Hastings Boys' livestream, but they seem to have some technical difficulties, so not sure it will work (properly):

Edit: still doesn't work properly.

[Stargazer]

Hastings Boys have scored a (converted) try.

7 - 0

[Stargazer]

Tauranga Boys have scored an unconverted try.

7 - 5 Hastings

[Stargazer]

Try to Napier! Not sure what happened there, with the officials deliberating, but I think it was Joel Russell who scored off the quick tap.

5 - 0 Napier

Hastings hot on attack in the other game, now getting a penalty - I think - deep in Tauranga's half.

[Stargazer]

Very good try to New Plymouth after a great line-break from NP's halfback; some poor tackling from Napier, too;

5 - 7 NP

[Higgins]

It is pretty hard wishing bad luck on a team dressed in black and white hoops playing in Napier.

[Stargazer]

Angus Prouting is a real prospect in that Napier squad. I hope the HBRu have locked him in before the Highlanders lure him to Dunedin, too.

Hastings under the pump in the other game.

[Higgins]

@Stargazer Looks to be a decent southerly blowing in directly from Antartica bringing in a rather chilly wind factor. Will probably be helping the visiting New Plymouth team immeasurably in this first half. Napier in for a second try to take the lead to warm me up a bit.

[Stargazer]

Napier get a penalty close to the NP try line and go for a line-out. The drive is going well and it's a try!

[Stargazer]

That stream in the Hastings game is really bad. Tribe tells me the score hasn't changed, but are they there or are they watching the same bad stream?