{"id":88065,"date":"2025-10-19T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88065\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:56:20","slug":"canterbury-book-all-southern-npc-final-against-otago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88065\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury book all-southern NPC final against Otago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7c910de5861e399f1115d2a413d299d8-nzrbuc1a53w2.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Ngane Punivai scored Canterbury's opening try. Photo: Martin Hunter\/action press\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ngane Punivai scored Canterbury&#8217;s opening try. Photo: Martin Hunter\/action press<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch it is.<\/p>\n<p>Otago will have to do it away from home if they are to win their first NPC title in 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>They will play Canterbury in Christchurch in the final next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Otago, so impressive in their 41-17 semifinal win over Bay of Plenty last night, would have hosted the final if Hawke\u2019s Bay had upset Canterbury in the second semifinal tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies were well in the fight at halftime, trailing just 15-14.<\/p>\n<p>But they managed to score just once in the second half, Canterbury racing away to a 43-19 win.<\/p>\n<p>Otago will still be confident of heading north and completing a fairytale double.<\/p>\n<p>They beat Canterbury in Christchurch to take the Ranfurly Shield earlier this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ngane Punivai scored Canterbury&#8217;s opening try. Photo: Martin Hunter\/action press Christchurch it is. Otago will have to do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-88065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065","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=88065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}