Stance on recruitment smacks of hypocrisy

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SOUNDS like sour grapes to me in Nick Cain’s piece entitled “Schools in moral row” in which he described how a coalition of ten Auckland Schools have thrown St. Kentigern out of the 2019 First XV competition for recruiting five players from other schools to their senior squad.
A number of independent schools across Eastern Counties whom we play against actively recruit players from neighbouring counties and schools to join at Year 9 or 12 on sports scholarships.
Some schools even reach out overseas to places as far afield as Kenya and South Africa to bring players into the...

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