Rainbow proves a Midas Touch for Hawkes Bay

Hawkes Bay travelled to Pukekohe and claimed the Log of Wood from Counties Manukau. Good to see the Log of Wood being transferred around these proud provincial teams and hopefully the boys there can keep it for a few games: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/10442728/Magpies-swoop-in-and-claim-Ranfurly-Shield

Rainbow will definitely be hoping for Northland to travel to Hawkes Bay that's for sure!

Is it just me or do the NZ teams in general suddenly look very comfortable with the lineout rolling maul and we are seeing the fruits of that at the top level?

Fortunately Wellington may get a crack at it in a few weeks Oct 1. Sadly we are SH!T this year. Fortunately we always manage to pull out a surprise every year so we could win it. Sadly we are SH!T this year and would probably loose it to Taranaki only 4 days later. The good thing is that then Wellington would regain the record of the shortest Ranfurly shield reign which we currently share with Waikato