The Rugby Journal wrote a piece on the Bay’s Ranfurly Shield victory many years after the event.

All the photos from the Shield Victory

Sounds like I'm not the only one still busy pinching myself to make sure that I'm not dreaming. The dream of Bay of Plenty holding the Ranfurly Shield is now a reality.

Most important of all, don’t get too hopeful in the lead-up to a shield game. At work, keep a low profile. Don’t even remember that the game is happening till last thing Friday afternoon.

Stunned, speechless, disbelief – and that was just seeing Hori fit into my dear friend Don’s clapped out Nissan Sunny now converted into the Mafia mobile!!

DOMESTIC rugby's biggest prize spent its first night on Bay of Plenty soil last night - safely tucked under the arm of big forward Paul Tupai.

TEARS welling in his eyes, Bay of Plenty rugby's greatest administrator Dick Littlejohn said it was possibly the best rugby occasion of his life.

IT'S unlikely Anthony Tahana will ever score a more important try or Glen Jackson will ever play a game to rival this one.

The BOP Mafia vehicle that led the fans up to Eden Park in Auckland to claim the Ranfurly Shield