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Taranaki hold onto Ranfurly Shield

NZ Newswire August 4, 2012, 7:26 pm

Taranaki have defended the Ranfurly Shield for a second time this season, comfortably seeing off Wanganui 51-7 in New Plymouth.

The hosts surged away in the second half after leading the Heartland Championship side just 11-0 at halftime.

They scored six of their seven tries in the second spell while hooker Cole Baldwin crossed for Wanganui's lone try with 20 minutes remaining.

Taranaki winger Frazier Climo scored the first of his two tries and landed two penalties for his team's first half points.

Other tries in the second half went to halfback Jamison Gibson-Park (2), winger Waisake Naholo, flanker Jarrad Hoeata and lock Kane Barrett.

Taranaki's first Shield defence of the year was a 67-16 of King Country last week.

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Lisa11:41am Sunday 02nd September 2012 ESTReport Abuse
UMMM i just decided to actually read the story...has anyone else?? i could have sworn the naki played tasman? You've really outdone yaself this yahoo!!!
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11:01am Sunday 02nd September 2012 EST Report Abuse
Atama truer words were never spoken..
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Atama10:58am Sunday 02nd September 2012 ESTReport Abuse
With the standard of rugby showed in the ITM competition so far it is not a surprise that the All Blacks are the world champions, the Taranaki v Tasman game was a classic, NZ now just have too much young talents that it is going to be hard for any rugby team in the world to match them.
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ROMMEL10:50am Sunday 02nd September 2012 ESTReport Abuse
no matter how tough life treats you just remember that one person on this planet has it real tough she has to call i see stupid ,,,,,SON ,,,,,,ja
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Lisa10:39am Sunday 02nd September 2012 ESTReport Abuse
I can't take responsibility that you were bottle fed Daniel and you long for a boobie you never had ..and acting out on yahoo rugby posts is not going to fill that void in your life..........
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