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OCTOBER 17, 2024
Sunday’s cup day Te Kūiti will host the Heartland Championship’s Lochore Cup final on Sunday for the first time in nine years when King Country takes on West Coast. King Country made the final after beating Ngāti Porou East Coast 34-29 on Owen Delany Park in Taupō last week. The province’s most capped player Paul Mitchell said he was expecting a good turnout at Rugby Park for the 2.30pm match. Ground capacity is 3000 but Mitchell said he would be happy with 500. The Rams coach Aarin Dunster – who played more than a century of games for the province - held the cup aloft in 2015 as captain, the last time the team played in a home final. They beat North Otago 47-34 that day. King Country has been runner up twice – in 2006 when Poverty Bay beat them 46-34 and in 2016 when the Rams lost 44-22 to North Otago. In the Heartland Championship, the teams ranked one to four at the end of the round robin play for the Meads Cup – named after King Country legend Colin Meads - while the teams ranked five to eight play for the Lochore Cup – named after WairarapaBush and All Blacks captain Brian Lochore. Both were knighted for their services to rugby. Lots of points scored in the semifinal was no pointer for the final, said Mitchell. “That means nothing now, she’s a one-off game. It’s still at home – you like to feel that you are going to be the favourites anyway. “One and two got kicked out. Thames Valley was three and Mid-Canterbury were four. A betting man would never have picked that, I can tell you right now.” Mitchell thinks the King Country forwards will take it on and help get the ball out wide where a lot of the season’s tries have been scored. “We have got a big back line counterattack but West Coast will still spin it pretty wide as well, but if they get into the close quarters they will go back to their strengths, which is their forward pack – especially round the try line. “They’ve got one more game, there’s nothing after this and there’s a trophy to lift at the end. They can’t hold back.” The weather was looking good for Sunday (partly cloudy, light winds and a high of 21) which he expected would favour King Country.
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