{"id":688985,"date":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:56:11","slug":"reds-deny-moana-pasifika-farewell-home-win-after-late-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688985\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds deny Moana Pasifika farewell home win after late try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moana Pasifika have been denied a fitting home farewell in Super Rugby, giving up the lead in the closing minutes to the Reds after a brilliant second-half comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Trailing 26-7 shortly after halftime at North Harbour Stadium, Moana Pasifika surged back to take a 31-26 advantage with three minutes to<br \/>\n         play.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">However, Reds fullback Jock Campbell broke free to tie the game up and a close-range Ben Volavola conversion secured victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Moana Pasifika did a remarkable job to get back into the match after conceding three first-half tries, with Reds winger Tim Ryan crossing twice, that left them 21-7 down at the break. A Treyvon Pritchard try shortly after halftime made it a 19-point lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">But in eight short minutes, Moana Pasifika were out in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. Moana Pasifika have been denied a fitting home farewell in Super Rugby, giving up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[9490,64,63,22806,336371,100396,55138,336369,336368,114212,336370,88935,1899,191,23445,18140,5660,116476,193050,13506,760,336372,85,1643,243916,8935],"class_list":["post-688985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-after","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-been","tag-brilliant","tag-closing","tag-comeback","tag-denied","tag-deny","tag-farewell","tag-fitting","tag-giving","tag-have","tag-home","tag-late","tag-lead","tag-minutes","tag-moana","tag-pasifika","tag-reds","tag-rugby","tag-secondhalf","tag-sports","tag-super","tag-try","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688985","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=688985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}