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Inside NSB - the state school at the top of English rugby union

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The Northampton School for Boys 1st XV are looking to add the Continental Tyres Cup to the Daily Mail Trophy they won earlier this season It's 8am on a Monday morning and over a dozen teenage boys are stretching in a swimming pool. As the first state-school team to finish top in the history of the competition, which kicked off in 2013, NSB are bucking the trend. NSB are hoping to complete the double this season when they play Epsom College in the Under-18 Continental Tyres Cup final at Twickenham on 19 March, while they have also reached the national schools cup final in two other age groups. The school has 19 players in Northampton Saints' under-18 academy, another 21 players in the under-16 foundation stage, and has seven under-18 internationals. " Prop Aidan Reid - one of English rugby's rising stars and in the current England Under-18 squad - moved from fee-paying Bedford School to NSB a few years ago. About 220 boys arrive in their first year (Year 7), many of whom have been playing for local clubs in Northampton from an early age.

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