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Second-division final, 2001

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In 2000 the Ngāti Porou East Coast rugby team won the third-division title. The next year they played Hawke's Bay in the second-division final. This clip records the exciting last minutes of the game and shows the enthusiasm that the National Provincial Competition (NPC) has engendered in the smaller provincial unions.

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Ron Palenski, Rugby union – Provincial and regional rugby since 1976, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/40018/second-division-final-2001 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ron Palenski, published 24 July 2013, updated 1 September 2016.