Tom Irving from the Bulls gets a pass away while Deijre Siaki and Te Morehu Rewiti watch on during the game against Aoraki at Ngā Puna Wai. PHOTO: JME PHOTOGRAPHY The Canterbury Bulls have a winner-takes-all clash with the Southland Rams on Saturday to decide who will contest the national premiership promotion match. The Bulls beat Aoraki Eels 54-6 at Ngā Puna Wai last Saturday to stay unbeaten in the South Island championship after beating West Coast Chargers the week prior.
Southland also have two wins under their belt after beating Aoraki and West Coast in the last two weeks. The match will be played at Oamaru’s Centennial Park to save Canterbury, the away team, from having to travel as far as Invercargill. Southland played West Coast at the same venue last weekend for the same reason.
The top team at the end of the championship will play North Island winners Wellington in two weeks, with the winner of that game earning promotion back to the national premiership in 2025. Canterbury head coach Walt Wilson said Southland was a bit of an unknown quantity. “There’s limited coverage of the games.
In the first division you’ve got the luxury of watching other teams play on Sky, but we haven’t got that benefit,” he said. “We try to find out what we can about the opposition, but we’re just going to have to control what we can control ourselves and make sure that we implement the game plan we want to play.” He thought the two games they’d played so far had pr.