Cantabs: Tackle Taranaki next in Saturday's Log o' Wood challenge
Canterbury prop Joe Moody is confident his team has what it takes to beat Taranaki and return to Christchuch with the Ranfurly Shield.
After bringing Wellington's unbeaten run in the competition to an end, the four-time ITM Cup defending champions next assignment is to challenge Taranaki for the Log o' Wood in New Plymouth on Saturday.
Canterbury surrendered the Shield to Southland last season, and will be hoping to get their hands back on the prized trophy.
"This will be a different kettle of fish and Taranaki respect the Shield and have a lot of experience in their side," Moody told Sportal.
"It definitely will be a very good game but I believe we can bring the Shield home."
Comments
tha_mai says...
canterbury by 15-20. player by player the Taranaki team will be outclassed. Bye bye Ranfurly Shield
Posted 10:51 13th September 2012
Ferdie says...
one from the archives - oct 2002 and the redeveloped taranaki stadium's first match under lights - and it went dark after 7 min, taranaki ahead 7-0. should have called off the game and kept that result. but restart 15min later and canterbury went on to win 46-15. they had 12 current or future all blacks in their squad, two are still playing test-level - carter and mccaw (he was a reserve that day), plus hore for taranaki. two subs for c'bury that day Chris King, Laurence Corlett now play for taranaki
Posted 02:01 12th September 2012