{"id":206677,"date":"2025-10-12T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:05:12","slug":"npc-rugby-live-updates-canterbury-v-counties-manukau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206677\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC rugby live updates: Canterbury v Counties-Manukau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZSUCV_7c910de5861e399f1115d2a413d299d8_nzrb3CmyiWvA_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Tom Christie leads out his Canterbury team.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTom Christie leads out his Canterbury team.<br \/>\nPhoto: Martin Hunter\/ActionPress\n<\/p>\n<p>Counties-Manukau have done really well to bounce back from a poor start to the season and make the playoffs, but they are heavy underdogs today.<\/p>\n<p>Tabletopping Canterbury are favourites to win it all and have home ground advantage in Christchurch. Kickoff is 2.10pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Christie leads out his Canterbury team. Photo: Martin Hunter\/ActionPress Counties-Manukau have done really well to bounce back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-206677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}