This was successfully completed and saw our boys attain outstanding achievements in Auckland. TBHS finished 11th in New Zealand and again came first in the South Island - simply incredible for a school of our size. 

Kurt Rooney is an outstanding rugby coach, bringing a solid knowledge base and understanding of rugby and a wonderful way of instructing our young men.  His assistant Ryan Greenslade stepped into the role, only one year after leaving our school, and became a valuable asset. Edward Patterson as Manager left no stone unturned and performed many of the unseen tasks.

In pool play, we played three games with two wins and a loss, meaning we did not qualify for the Top 8 but played the second day in the 9-16 place section - still a great performance. In this section we won our first game but were knocked out in the second game, live on Sky TV.

Pool Game 1
Timaru Boys' 28 vs St Patrick's Wellington 7
An outstanding start. We went down early 7-0 but then 7-7 at halftime and three awesome second half tries. Jimmy: 2 tries. Hugh: 1 try, George: 1 try.  All converted by Jimmy.

Pool Game 2
Timaru Boys' 7 vs Palmerston Boys' 31
Down 17-0 at halftime. Not our best performance. Got back in to it a bit, but it was too late. Hugh scored, converted by Jimmy, but they achieved a couple more tries.

Pool Game 3
Timaru Boys' 27 vs Howick 19
A performance that showed real ticker. On top mostly.
Halftime was 17-7 to us. Tries to Jimmy x3, Ned and Liam. One converted by Jimmy.

9th to 16th QF
Timaru Boys' 19 vs Whangarei Boys' 10
A really good performance based around good defence. Now in for a chance for 9th place and put us in the top 12 teams out of the 32 playing. Halftime was 12-5. Tries to Sio, Jimmy and Liam. Two conversions to Jimmy.

9th to 16th SF
Timaru Boys' 21 vs Rotorua Boys' 40
What a weekend. Rotorua was too good. After being 14-7 down at halftime their lead stretched out quickly, but we were competitive. Final placing  was 11 out of 32. 

This was a top effort boys, in a high-quality tournament.

Condor Squad

Ryan Allan, Ben Bartlett, George Brown, Hugh Cameron, David Edh, Fletcher Joyce, Sio Latu, Ned Milne, Liam Parker, Jimmy Robertson, Duncan Rollinson, Jed Syme, Tafu Tafunanina