The scene is set for a unique rugby battle at high noon today - and it doesn't involve the Lions, and it's in Napier.
It's the annual Super 8 first XV match between Napier and Hastings Boys' High schools, the biggest sports event in town over the weekend and possibly the biggest rugby game in Hawke's Bay this year apart from the Hurricanes-Brumbies Super Rugby match in April and Hawke's Bay Magpies.
But it's also attracting national interest, because of a Hastings record which has had followers throughout the country in disbelief.
The Hastings first XV have played 10 games, scoring 572 points and with just 47 scored by the opposition.
Last Saturday they beat regular high-performing school and All Blacks production line Palmerston North Boys High 100-0, the third time the opposition had failed to score in the three games since Hastings beat 2016 Wellington schools competition runner-up St Pat's Town 106-7.