{"id":51768,"date":"2013-08-06T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T09:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=51768"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T10:26:10","slug":"how-man-ulstermen-have-played-in-a-ranfurly-shield-challenge-coasts-cowboy-makes-ranfurly-shield-history-the-team-included-john-semple-from-drumsurn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/how-man-ulstermen-have-played-in-a-ranfurly-shield-challenge-coasts-cowboy-makes-ranfurly-shield-history-the-team-included-john-semple-from-drumsurn\/","title":{"rendered":"How man Ulstermen have played in a Ranfurly Shield challenge? &#8230; Coast\u2019s Cowboy makes Ranfurly Shield history &#8211; The Team Included John Semple from Drumsurn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUGBY &#8211; BRENT \u201cCowboy\u201d Ingram wrote himself into Ngati Porou East Coast and New Zealand rugby history when he scored a try in yesterday\u2019s Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues lost 63-10 at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria but that did not matter to the majority of the 2000-strong crowd who got what they wanted . . . the Coast\u2019s first try in a Shield challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In six previous challenges dating back to 1953, the Coast\u2019s only points came from two Nigel Ormsby penalties in a 115-6 loss to Auckland in 1997 and two Mano Flutey penalties in a 51-6 defeat by Canterbury in 2009&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The real heroes, though, were Coast player-coach Ngarimu Simpkins and his team. Simpkins led by example and received tremendous support from lock Everard Reid, prop Lloyd Gabriel, fullback Semple, centre TK Moeke and Parata&#8230;&#8230; CLICK HERE for the full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUGBY &#8211; BRENT \u201cCowboy\u201d Ingram wrote himself into Ngati Porou East Coast and New Zealand rugby history when he scored a try in yesterday\u2019s Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato. The Sky Blues lost 63-10 at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria but that did not matter to the majority of the 2000-strong crowd who got what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8496,12688,6159,17277,4693,3959,11250,10327,7300],"class_list":["post-51768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-blues","tag-drumsurn","tag-john","tag-limavady","tag-new","tag-rugby","tag-semple","tag-sky","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632464,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51768\/revisions\/632464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}