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Follow @RedefinedRugby We continue our reviews on all 12 Heartland Teams we now look at Mid Canterbury & North Otago   MID CANTERBURY 2013 finish: Meads Cup champions The Hammers, again under coach Glenn Moore, recorded the best Ranfurly Shield challenge of any Heartland side in the past 14 years in holding Counties Manukau to 46-10 which

Follow @RedefinedRugby We continue our reviews on all 12 Heartland Teams we now look at Horowhenua-Kapiti and King Country       HOROWHENUA-KAPITI -   2013 finish: 11th After finishing at the tail of the field the previous two years Horowhenua-Kapiti improved one position but would have finished a lot higher had it not been for six defeats by seven

Follow @RedefinedRugby Today we begin our reviews on all 12 Heartland Teams we begin with Buller and the East Coast   BULLER - http://bullerrugby.co.nz 2013 finish: Lochore Cup runners-up After winning the Lochore in 2012 and finishing second to South Canterbury last season Buller’s co-coaches, with the bulk of the squad again available, have positive

Follow @RedefinedRugby John (JB) Phillips looks at the success of the Pink Batts Heartland Championship which enters its ninth season this year and the role Wanganui has played in the development of the competition. For the first seven years of the Heartland competition, which has embraced the 12 second and third division

Follow @RedefinedRugby HAWKE’S Bay Development were too big, too strong and too fast for Poverty Bay in Wairoa on Saturday. The Magpies, featuring six players with ITM Cup experience and four Gisborne players in their starting line-up — Andrew Gardner, Jody Allen, Tane McGuire and Ted Walters — won 56-12. But there was