CAS Rugby 2025
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Peter Burge (5)
What comp does Kings Christian College play in?
They play on the Gold Coast in what is called the APS (Association of Private Schools) it is a very weak competition generally only 2 decent teams Kings & Somerset College.
They generally have some good players who then get pinched in yr 11 & 12 to one of the Brisbane GPS programs. Todays Kings team featured last year's Qld u16 halfback (who played 10 today) and the 2023 Qld u16 Hooker. Both boys have had multiple offers to move to a GPS school but have stayed with their mates at Kings.
Cranbrook beat them today by at least 45 points, Cranbrook were pretty disappointing this Kings side would be the standard of one of the lower ISA teams.
Their front row was pretty good, there 4 & 6 also quite good. The backline was pretty pedestrian, 12/13/14 were the best. In fairness to both teams it had been bucketing down rain all day, the side of field between to 15m line and touch line was ankle deep in water.
I can't see Cranbrook causing Knox/Barker/Waverley any issues.
Elfster
Alex Ross (28)
Was wondering why Knox was doing a haka before I realised that CBHS uniform is awfully similar.
The kiwi side looked to have advertising on their uniforms. In particular the main advertising was of a bar and grill!
Homer
Watty Friend (18)
Any score update?
Elfster
Alex Ross (28)
Knox 31 defeated CBHS 26
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Desmond Connor (43)
Barker lost the first game to Osaka 26/19. Barkers run on team was a solid mix of 1sts and 2nds players with a sprinkle of 16As in the wider squad. The games are 2 x 25min halves. Barker was very incohesive in the first half with handling errors and a yellow card giving the home side a solid 19/5 lead at halftime. Baker beefed up the scrum in the 2nd half and it made a difference. A second yellow card, did not help their cause but with a robust forward platform they bridged the gap to 19/19 with 1 minute on the clock. With a attacking line out to the Reds Barker looked set to steel the win. Sadly the lineout missed the mark. Osaka got the ball and their winger found space and ran 55m to score the winning try.
Having watched two other games, the English side was crushed by their Japanese opponents while Hamilton Boys from NZ won their game well. I think looking at the Japanese opponents Barker faced the stronger team. What happens next will depend on Barkers coach. If they had their 1st XV on the park for the majority of the game they probably would have won. But 2 yellow cards meant they played 20 min of the 50 min a player down.
Having watched two other games, the English side was crushed by their Japanese opponents while Hamilton Boys from NZ won their game well. I think looking at the Japanese opponents Barker faced the stronger team. What happens next will depend on Barkers coach. If they had their 1st XV on the park for the majority of the game they probably would have won. But 2 yellow cards meant they played 20 min of the 50 min a player down.
Having never watched this tournament before, I was amazed at how good the Japanese side was. They pretty much dominated the entire match and played some incredibly impressive high octane running rugby. Think there were held up in goal on about 3-4 occasions and blew one other certain try by not passing inside to an unmarked player 5m from the try line.
Out of interest, are the Japanese sides school boy teams or club teams? Presumably for the team to be this good, I assume it must be some form of elite rugby program / scholarship type system and not just a team of 'school kids'.
Japanese school boy rugby been incredibly underrated for many years now. They are all school sides made up from the schools student body, but the level of discipline in the teams is insane, with the amount of training in their average day mental. Believe last year they had 4 or 5 of their school sides in the top 50 best schools 1st XVs on the planet, with three of those schools being at Sanix again this year.
I believe traditionally in Sanix, it is all about how you start as a team, with last years champions Osaka Toin surving a very tight opening game against a school from England, before pretty much walking through to the knockout stages and the final. Unfortunately, this result means that Barker are very unlikely to be competing for the a top 4 spot in the competition, which is where the winner is decided.
Anyone got the team list for their first game?
I believe traditionally in Sanix, it is all about how you start as a team, with last years champions Osaka Toin surving a very tight opening game against a school from England, before pretty much walking through to the knockout stages and the final. Unfortunately, this result means that Barker are very unlikely to be competing for the a top 4 spot in the competition, which is where the winner is decided.
Anyone got the team list for their first game?