Spotlight on Southland Sport: Friday Edition

Plenty of sport to delve into in this week's Spotlight on Sport. Enjoy the read.

Aug 31, 2023

Welcome to The Southland Tribune’s Spotlight on Sport: Friday Edition offering. We’ll be back with our Sunday Sports Special in a couple of days.

The Southland Tribune is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

The 'mental toughness' that came from life's ultimate curve-ball

For some, it could be daunting - not Rico Muliaina though. Muliaina will on Friday line up at first five-eighth for the Southland Boys’ High School first XV as it looks to make history by joining the class of 1987. (READ MORE HERE).

Stags take tough review on chin, Auckland now in sights

The Southland Stags players have taken an honest assessment “on the chin” as they look to turn positive patches into an 80-minute winning NPC performance. The Stags are yet to win a game through their first four outings to date this season despite putting themselves in decent positions. (READ MORE HERE).

Good news basketball fans... Invercargill to host NZ-Australia series

ILT Stadium Southland has locked in another sporting coup with New Zealand and Australia to square-off in a 3x3 basketball series in Invercargill in October. Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) has announced that its 3x3 men’s and women’s national teams will play in Aotearoa - for the first time ever – from October 25 to 28, when they face Australia in a brand-new Trans-Tasman series. (READ MORE HERE).

The Roaring Pen podcast: Featuring Blair Ryall

Listen here:

1×

0:00

-37:09

The Roaring Pen podcast hosts Nick Jeffery, Nathan Burdon, and Logan Savory reflect on Stag Day and the loss to Otago, look forward to Sunday’s showdown with Auckland, and have an interesting chat with impressive Stags loose forward Blair Ryall about his rugby journey.

Join as a paid subscriber….

We are a reader-supported platform, so please consider joining The Tribune as a paid subscriber/supporter to help us continue to produce more Southland content like this. You will also get access to all the paid subscriber-only content we produce.