{"id":1006,"date":"2013-09-29T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westcoastrfu.wordpress.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2013-09-29T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T06:42:07","slug":"dittman-shield-battle-of-the-bridge-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/29\/dittman-shield-battle-of-the-bridge-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"DITTMAN SHIELD &#8220;BATTLE of the BRIDGE&#8221; 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\">by West Coast RFU ( 16\/07\/2013)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rabweb.co.nz\/westcoast\/dittman1001_fb.gif\" width=\"593\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\">After a highly successful return to the West Coast rugby fixtures list last season after a 17 year break, the Dittman Shield will again be at stake to prove Rugby supremacy between the Grey and Westland Districts, in the &#8220;Battle of the Bridge&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Last years fixture played in Ross, resulted\u00a0in a win to the side north of the Taramakau, by 41-14 in a high intensity game, and this years game will\u00a0again see this\u00a0old rivalry that dates back to the 1920&#8217;s,\u00a0resume for bragging rights.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> The fixture will also be a further opportunity for players to impress the West Coast Heartland selectors who will be watching on keenly, as they look to identify talent for this seasons squad.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> West Coast R.F.U chairman Colin Smith was\u00a0expecting\u00a0that after last years epic contest in Ross, that this game would now cement itself in the local rugby calendar, as not only a game players would want to be a part of, but that spectators would want to come along and support passionately. <br \/> \u00a0<br \/> &#8220;It is great to see one of the very important traditions of the past that we had lost over time returning\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Smith said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\">The\u00a0Grey District side will defend the Shield against the Westland District\u00a0at Arthur Fong Park in Blaketown, this Saturday\u00a0July 20th, at 2.45pm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by West Coast RFU ( 16\/07\/2013) After a highly successful return to the West Coast rugby fixtures list last season after a 17 year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}