Friday Flashback
WIND-BACK WEDNESDAY: CANTERBURY REF IN THE MIDDLE FOR FIRST ORIGIN DECIDER
We move our flashback piece forward a couple of days this week to coincide with tonight’s third State of Origin encounter, remembering a prominent Canterbury Rugby League figure’s integral role in the first-ever decider in 1982. The runaway success of Origin’s one-off matches in 1980 and ’81 – largely due to Queensland’s stunning upset wins…
Read MoreFLASHBACK FRIDAY: EAST V WEST 2011
Ahead of the East v West representative fixture tomorrow afternoon at Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub, Flashback Friday revisits the last time the match was played prior to its return to the Canterbury Rugby League schedule in 2017. East recovered from a 14-point halftime deficit to run out 26-18 winners in the 2011 clash, keeping…
Read MoreFLASHBACK FRIDAY: KIWIS CLINCH WORLD CUP FINAL BERTH IN CHRISTCHURCH MUD
The weather that wreaked havoc with the middle stages of our club season appears to have relented, so it’s probably safe now to mark 30 years since a famous Christchurch Test played in atrocious conditions for Flashback Friday. It what ranks as one of the most dramatic and important Test matches ever staged in the…
Read MoreFLASHBACK FRIDAY: DUFFIE AND BROWN DEBUT IN ANZAC TEST
This Sunday – at the unlikely venue of Mile High Stadium in Denver – Aranui Eagles junior Jamayne Isaako is set to join the ranks of Canterbury products to pull on the Kiwis jumper. Flashback Friday this week relives the 2011 midyear trans-Tasman Test, when Christchurch-born duo Lewis Brown and Matt Duffie made their Kiwi…
Read MoreFlashback Friday – Warriors’ miracle win in Christchurch
As Christchurch prepares to host its first NRL fixture in six years – the Round 10 clash between the Penrith Panthers and New Zealand Warriors on Saturday at AMI Stadium – Flashback Friday relives the city’s last taste of top-level rugby league, which featured one of the greatest finishes in premiership history. In rainy, freezing…
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