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Canterbury have won the Ranfurly Shield for a record 18th time, their hard-fought 19-15 victory over Otago in Dunedin this afternoon taking the Log o’ Wood back up the road to Christchurch.
But that tells only a smart part of the story of a match which had a huge amount of intensity in keeping with the famous old trophy and a desperate comeback from Otago which just fell short.
There was also a not insignificant amount of controversy featuring experienced referee Ben O’Keeffe and Canterbury captain Brodie McAlister in the second half.
McAlister, his eyes on the ball, appeared to collide with O’Keeffe’s hip and went down clutching his cheekbone before being forced off for a head injury assessment.
"My fault," O’Keeffe told McAlister, "I was in the way."
Compounding the issue, though, was the fact O’Keeffe almost immediately sinbinned the hooker’s replacement Manumaua Letiu for offside after the visitors were warned for constant offending.
So off Letiu had to go, and, because Canterbury had forced depowered "golden oldie" scrums, one other player also had to depart – in this case flanker Corey Kellow.
It was a bizarre sequence of events in which O’Keeffe was a central figure and to…
Photo: Richard Bennett Zeff (Caravan), Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns (Kevin Ayers). Illustration: udiscovermusic
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The Canterbury sound blossomed in the 70s as a good-humored variant on progressive rock. Where prog with a capital “P” played out larger than life, the Canterbury scene was populated by singers who sounded like they’d be more at home in a P.G. Wodehouse novel than on an arena stage, and by songs built on subtle idiosyncrasies instead of grand gestures.
For all their musical sophistication, the Canterbury…