2025 Aaron Payne Cup live stream: Holy Spirit College v Kirwan State High, Round 3

Kirwan Bears will aim to blood two fresh faces for their Round 3 clash with a Holy Spirit side desperate to shore up its defence. Watch the Payne Cup and Schoolgirls Cup double header LIVE on Monday.

After allowing 60 or more points in their opening two games of the Aaron Payne Cup, the challenge does not get any easier for Holy Spirit College.

The Mackay side returns home this week to host reigning Payne Cup champions Kirwan State High.

The clash will be exclusively live streamed on KommunityTV on Monday as part of a massive double header along with the NRL Schoolgirls Cup matches.

Watch every game of the Aaron Payne Cup and NQ Schoolgirls Cup live and exclusive on KommunityTV, available with your subscription to this masthead. See the full schedule of Round 3 games below.

The Bears are in formidable form to start the schoolboys cup season, dispatching St patrick’s College and St Augustine’s College in the opening fortnight.

But they will turn to a couple of untested rookies for the clash with Holy Spirit as coach Todd Wilson tests the depths of his squad.

Kirwan will unleash two rising young guns for their Bears debut on Monday with backrower Ezeziel Saylor-Pau and outside back Kai Kelly elevated to the bench.

Kirwan State High School hosts St Patrick's College, Mackay, in round 1 of the 2025 Aaron Payne Cup. Picture: Evan Morgan

“It’s finding that balance between maintaining consistency and also giving some boys opportunities at certain times. So only the two changes this week,” Wilson said.

“We want to find more consistency within our game. Playing some consistent footy is our focus.

“Ezekiel is going to play his first game. He’s a Townsville boy. Sian (Matane) is crook so Ezekiel will replace him off the bench as a backrower.

“Kai Kelly will come onto the bench this week as well. He’s an outside back.

“They’re both year 12 boys and they’ll come in, both onto the bench, to play their first game.”

Kirwan’s Schoolgirls Cup team, the Grizzlies, have joined the Bears on the bus down the Bruce Highway, preparing to face Holy Spirit after an emphatic 38-4 Round 1 victory over St Patrick’s College a fortnight ago.

Holy Spirit had its own win in its Schoolgirls Cup season-opener last week, claiming the competition points due to a St Margaret Mary’s College forfeit.

St Margaret Mary’s ultimately won the game 16-12, but it counted as a 40-0 victory to Holy Spirit.

The Schoolgirls Cup match kicks off at 12.30pm, immediately followed by the Aaron Payne Cup clash at 1.30pm.

Originally published as 2025 Aaron Payne Cup live stream: Holy Spirit College v Kirwan State High, Round 3