{"id":178146,"date":"2025-12-11T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:58:09","slug":"drua-partners-with-silver-fern-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178146\/","title":{"rendered":"Drua partners with Silver Fern \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/drua-2026.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua have joined hands with a new partner ahead of the 2026 Shop N Save Super Rugby season.<\/p>\n<p>The club has brought on board Silver Fern as their official supplier of training equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Fern, New Zealand\u2019s oldest ball manufacturer with over 70 years of experience, is renowned for producing high-quality sports equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Silver Fern has provided the Drua with a wide range of elite-level training gear, giving the squad a major boost as they prepare for the highly anticipated 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Glen Jackson welcomed the partnership, highlighting the positive impact it will have on the team\u2019s preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel very lucky and privileged to associate with Silver Fern. I know they\u2019ve done a lot already with the free ball giveaway with Rebel Sports, and to have them as our supplier of hit shields, tackle suits, tackle machines and a bit of everything \u2014 it\u2019s great to have them onboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration builds on previous initiatives between the two organizations, including Silver Fern\u2019s donation of over 20 rugby balls toyoung players at a local competition between the Nadi and Ba Rugby Unions earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua have joined hands with a new partner ahead of the 2026 Shop N&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-178146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}