Rugby Tears Div 1 Criteria: Opens (4 teams), 16 (3 teams), 15 (3 teams), 14 (3 teams), 13 (3 teams).
Using data from the ISA Website and the Rugby Winter 2012 competition tables, a summary reveals the following:
St Augustine’s Opens (3), 16 (3), 15 (3), 14 (3), 13 (4) - Meets RT’s ISA Div 1 Criteria
St Stanislaus, Opens (5), 16 (2), 15 (4), 14 (4), 13 (4) – Conceded pass for RT’s ISA Div 1 Criteria - work on U16’s.
Kinross, Opens (4), 16 (2), 15 (2), 14 (2), 13 (2) - relegate to ISA Div 2
Oakhill, Opens (5), 16 (3), 15 (4), 14 (5), 13 (4) - Meets RT’s ISA Div 1 Criteria
St Patrick’s, Opens (5), 16 (3), 15 (3), 14 (5), 13 (4) - Meets RT’s ISA Div 1 Criteria
St Pius, Opens (3), 16 (2), 15 (3), 14 (2), 13 (4) – Conceded pass for RT’s ISA Div 1 Criteria - work on U16’s, U14’s.
St Andrew’s, Opens (2), 16 (1), 15 (2), 14 (1), 13 (1) - relegate to ISA Div 2
St Gregory’s, Opens (3), 16 (1), 15 (1), 14 (2), 13 (2) - relegate to ISA Div 2
I also have a feeling that some schools like St Pats have extra teams in some of the age grades that must play in some non-ISA type competition.
Rugby Tears ISA Div 1 will now be:
St Augustine’s
Oakhill
St Patrick’s
St Pius (Warning to lift game)
St Stanislaus (Warning to lift game)
Relegate to Div 2
St Andrew’s
St Gregory’s
Kinross
A five team ISA Div 1 competition would be a more incestuous competition than the CAS closed shop. Perhaps a time to merge the 5 ISA big schools with CAS?
Based on performances this year, Oakhill and St Augies have shown that they would probably be 1 and 2 in a joint ISA/CAS 1st XV competition.