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The first xv semi-final at Papatoetoe High School on Saturday was brutal, emotional and ultimately bewildering and it was not the referee's decisions causing the confusion.
Five days ago the government announced it will put more money into school sport .
It all sounded good to Papatoetoe High School Principal Peter Gall until he did the maths and figured out his low decile school would get $8,000 less.
" We're robbing from the poor to pay the rich and that's certainly how it appears to be. Certainly for secondary schools in this area," says Gall.
The news was not much better for Otahahu College.
"I thought we were going to get extra funding for our sports programme and as it turns out we are going to be best part of $6,000 short of what we were last year," says Gil Laurenson from Otahahu College.
Sports and Recreation Minister Murray McCully says the principals are wrong because there will be extra money available from their local regional sports trust.
"I can guarantee every school will be better off in the ultimate, the low decile schools that have complained this morning will be better off because of the partnership cash that comes from the regional sports trust fund," says McCully.
