Cause they’ve improved as a school… just cause the 1xv aren’t champions yet, doesn’t mean they haven’t improved.
there are no blowout scores, you can’t deny they're now competitive and belong in the first div
I'm not saying that Shore belongs in tier two. What I'm saying is that in this (highly hypothetical, because I'm not in charge and no one has the guts to do it, because a bunch of old boys would go beserk and threaten to stop their donations) scenario, you would make tiering choices based on a range of factors, of which recent 1st XV performance is only one. And recent 1st XV performance is in some ways the least important, because we all know that any school that wants to can recruit a brand new, competitive team despite having a shallow Rugby program and developing little of its own talent. You know what? The US College football system has three divisions, like schools play like schools, and it works just fine. New Zealand has a structured schools Rugby system. It's not easy, but it's feasible.
Anyway... like I say it won't happen. But that doesn't mean I have to like the decaying system we have now.