{"id":99829,"date":"2025-10-25T04:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:03:09","slug":"npc-final-live-updates-canterbury-v-otago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99829\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC Final live updates: Canterbury v Otago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JYZ5XV_251025NPCFinal_0229_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Thomas Umaga-Jensen of Otago scores during Canterbury v Otago, NPC Final rugby union match at Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThomas Umaga-Jensen scores a try for Dunedin.<br \/>\nPhoto: Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s NPC final looms as a southern classic, with Canterbury hosting Otago in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have been very good this season and thoroughly deserve their spots in the final, with Otago looking to score the NPC\/Ranfurly Shield double, after taking the &#8216;Log O&#8217; Wood&#8217; off Canterbury last month.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff at Apollo Projects Stadium at 4.05pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4K0RU0X_250920_CanterburyOtago_19_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"812\" alt=\"Tom Christie of Canterbury scores a try in the tackle of Joseva Tamani of Otago during the NPC and Ranfurly Shield Rugby match.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTom Christie of Canterbury scores a try in the tackle of Joseva Tamani of Otago during the NPC and Ranfurly Shield Rugby match.<br \/>\nPhoto: Photosport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Umaga-Jensen scores a try for Dunedin. Photo: Photosport This year&#8217;s NPC final looms as a southern classic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-99829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99829","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=99829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}