{"id":6259,"date":"2025-09-06T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/6259\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:05:12","slug":"ranfurly-shield-canterbury-end-southlands-short-reign-with-log-o-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/6259\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranfurly Shield: Canterbury end Southland\u2019s short reign with Log o\u2019 Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>6 Sep, 2025 05:54 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Canterbury celebrate winning the Ranfurly Shield. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 14-year wait and gone in six days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Southland have recorded the shortest reign with the Ranfurly Shield after suffering a 54-14 defeat to Canterbury in Invercargill today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Less than a week after an impressive performance to take the shield off Waikato, the Stags were simply outclassed by Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Southland\u2019s<br \/>\n         six-day Ranfurly Shield reign is the briefest in the trophy\u2019s 121-year history. There have been three reigns that lasted just six days. Due to variations in kick-off times, the Stags\u2019 run is 30 minutes shorter than Hawke\u2019s Bay\u2019s time with the trophy in 2013. Waikato\u2019s reign last week lasted six days and two and a half hours.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MFxmLElkspXO\" style=\"display:none\">Canterbury are the fourth different union to hold the shield in 2025 and will defend it against Tasman next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 6 Sep, 2025 05:54 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8132,8126,4731,8127,2219,8130,111,139,69,8131,8125,8129,316,5976,8128,213,5273,102,4883],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-14year","tag-canterbury","tag-days","tag-end","tag-gone","tag-log","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-o","tag-ranfurly","tag-reign","tag-shield","tag-short","tag-southlands","tag-sports","tag-wait","tag-with","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","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=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}