NZ Schools v Australia Schools: a Hamilton stream finds seventy times its usual crowd
The secondary schools Test at St Paul's Collegiate had sat as a waiting link for a week, and the replay is now the busiest thing on the official All Blacks channel.
All BlacksStory of Why this story? The video is running at 58,154 views a day, 76 times its usual pace (760).
LIVE STREAM: NZ Schools v Australia Schools (2026)
Schoolboy rugby traveled well. The live stream of New Zealand Schools against Australia Schools, played at St Paul's Collegiate in Hamilton on the afternoon of September 30, is now drawing views at roughly seventy-six times the pace it had while it sat on the channel as a scheduled link. It has passed 65,000 views, most of them since the final whistle.
That is unusual company for this channel, which mostly trades in the senior side. This week it ran on an Australian theme: a full replay of the 2018 Bledisloe Cup opener in Sydney, with Kieran Read back as captain, a compilation of the All Blacks' deadliest try scorers against the Wallabies, and a Scott Barrett tackle billed as a monster hit. Among them, the newest Trans-Tasman meeting is between teenagers.
The comments read like a selectors' meeting. Several viewers note that the New Zealand boys attack the way the All Blacks do. Others pick at the second half, the handling of high balls and the long line of substitutes. One praises the commentary for being even-handed when a one-sided call was expected. Another asks the question New Zealand rugby asks often: how to keep young players from switching to league or heading overseas.
The secondary schools side has long been a step on the road toward the black jersey, and on this stream a good number of people turned up to watch that road from its early stretch.
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What viewers say
Great commentary, guys. We were expecting one-sided commentary, and it was not at all. Great work. You made it a pleasure to watch.
@MyDailyArtSee it on YouTubeKiwi boys showing similar attacking style to ABs. Impressive
@happychappy7115See it on YouTubeGreat game boys, some strong talent coming through
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- Channel
- All Blacks
- Subscribers
- 1,410,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 433,629 (on a normal day: 342,943)
- Video published
- September 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 65,690 (9 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 58,154 (on a normal day: 6,500)
The numbers
The figures show a schoolboy match stream moving far faster than it did before kickoff, on a channel that is also busier than usual overall.
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What is the name of the Māori challenge the All Blacks perform before a Test?
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