School Rugby 2025

Bovidae

@Boourns I'm not surprised. Paerata to Masterton is a huge distance. It's still a lot of travel for the remaining schools, more so than the Super 8. The Miles Toyota is just as bad.

Chester Draws

Rathkeale are always going to have to travel, but going all that way to get quite a few hidings must hurt extra.

Bovidae

Moascar Cup
Hamilton BHS 59 - 12 Wellington College (HT: 19-5)

I was expecting a close game based on pre-season results but the HBHS backs were too slick. Not bad as they were missing a few players due to injury and NZ U18 touch commitments in Australia. Naitoa Ah Kuoi was the waterboy for his old school. The game was streamed on Whakaata Māori.

Bovidae

And these are the 1st XV matches Sky will be showing. Obviously no 1A or Super 8 games.

Bovidae

CNI

St Peter’s Cambridge 26 - 0 Whanganui Collegiate
Wesley College 26 - 28 Lindisfarne College
Feilding High School 86 - 3 St John’s Hastings
St John’s Hamilton 23 - 6 FDMC

mikedogz

It sounds like the South Island Boys schools want to start up their own version of Super 8.

mikedogz

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"All they give a shit about is how successful their team is." Outspoken Taranaki coach Neil Barnes didn't pull any punches with his assessment of the...

Nepia

@mikedogz said in School Rugby 2025:

1.4K reactions · 108 shares | "All they give a shit about is how...

"All they give a shit about is how successful their team is." Outspoken Taranaki coach Neil Barnes didn't pull any punches with his assessment of the...

TBH, after listening to that not sure he made any great or unique points. Kids have been moving schools for rugby since before I was in school.

I'm unsure why this is all of a sudden an issue now.

In fact, with NZR actively destroying a level of development in rugby (NPC), the "professional" schools comps are likely needed more for the health of NZ pro rugby than they were in the past.

Bovidae

@Boourns said in School Rugby 2025:

Interestingly Scots look to be weak at the moment, so they must have run out of money for scholarships (well over half the team in recent years) and returned to being very average at rugby again.

Ouch!

In Strathmore earlier in the day, Scots College’s wretched start to 2025 continued when they were hammered 97-7 by Napier Boys’ High School. Scots have conceded 344 points in their last four games.

Boourns

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

@Boourns said in School Rugby 2025:

Interestingly Scots look to be weak at the moment, so they must have run out of money for scholarships (well over half the team in recent years) and returned to being very average at rugby again.

Ouch!

In Strathmore earlier in the day, Scots College’s wretched start to 2025 continued when they were hammered 97-7 by Napier Boys’ High School. Scots have conceded 344 points in their last four games.

Sheesh, what a hiding. Hard to feel sorry for them, their behaviour with the game against Feilding a few years ago was bang out of order. Feel for the lads in the team now, but if a school just had a 1st XV and no rugby programme outside of the 1st team it was Scots. Pity Town didn't turn over Coll.

Bovidae

CNI

Whanganui Collegiate 50 - 12 St John’s Hastings
St Paul’s Collegiate 24 - 20 Wesley College
Feilding High School 36 - 37 St Peter’s Cambridge
Lindisfarne College 61 - 19 St John’s Hamilton

I went along to watch St Paul's vs Wesley. Wesley have some big, athletic players but make too many mistakes.

Yeetyaah

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

Wesley have some big, athletic players

Shit yeah they do. My first xv played them last year in the northern schools tournament in Pukekohe and our boys are also quite big but a bunch of them sacked their nuts and we got cooked 45-0

Bovidae

There have been some Super 8 games played last Sat and today.

New Plymouth BHS 15 - 24 Hastings BHS
Gisborne BHS 8 - 51 Palmerston North BHS

Rotorua BHS 14 - 29 Tauranga BC

Traditional Exchange (Wed)
Auckland Grammar 19 - 32 Hamilton BHS

An interesting try in today's live game between Nelson College and Marlborough BC. I'll post the highlights video if Sky uploads, but MBC had a penalty in front of the goal posts so all of the NC players were in a huddle behind the posts. The MBC kicker then kicks the ball deliberately to the left corner where a teammate manages to score before the ball goes out. I can only assume they told the ref it wasn't going to be a shot at goal even though the ARs were behind the posts. After discussion between the officials the try stood. MBC held on to win 28-26 in Nelson.