{"id":597895,"date":"2026-09-12T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:38:09","slug":"northland-v-waikato-recap-northland-too-good-again-in-ranfurly-shield-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597895\/","title":{"rendered":"Northland v Waikato recap: Northland too good again in Ranfurly Shield defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Northland James Ramm celebrates after scoring a try\u00a0against Waikato. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Northland are one more defence away from keeping the Ranfurly Shield for the summer after a strong 34-17 win over Waikato.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Northland lead 15-5 at halftime and turned in into a second successful defence with a solid second half performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         They face Counties-Manukau in a fortnight with a chance to<br \/>\n         keep the Shield for the off-season.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The Taniwha ran in five tries and led 34-10 before Waikato score a late consolation try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northland James Ramm celebrates after scoring a try\u00a0against Waikato. Photo \/ Photosport Northland are one more defence away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294680,74,6030,4995,1403,71,6101,78,29137,130,111,139,1067,69,1523,8125,8138,316,213,18835,14625,6173,1524],"class_list":["post-597895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-294680","tag-after","tag-again","tag-away","tag-defence","tag-from","tag-good","tag-in","tag-keeping","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-ranfurly","tag-recap","tag-shield","tag-sports","tag-strong","tag-summer","tag-too","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597895","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=597895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}