{"id":1144,"date":"2025-11-15T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:28:03","slug":"rugby-union-what-are-the-raeburn-and-utrecht-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Union: What are the Raeburn and Utrecht Shields?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rugby fan Dave Algie is the creator of the Raeburn and Utrecht Shields and had the idea for the trophies in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were talking online, running through results and thinking, what if Test rugby worked like boxing? What if there was a title that passed from team to team?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then devised the winner-stays-on Shields, which he describes as &#8220;two unofficial, fan-driven rugby titles that quietly stitch together every Test match ever played&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave says the trophies provide an opportunity for underdog nations to obtain them and provide an extra competitive layer to matches when title holders are playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The history already existed in the results. We did not invent anything. We just finally paid attention to it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a physical version of the Utrecht Shield for the holders to retain, with a Raeburn Shield currently under construction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby fan Dave Algie is the creator of the Raeburn and Utrecht Shields and had the idea for the trophies in 2008. &#8220;We were talking online, running through results and thinking, what if Test rugby worked like boxing? What if there was a title that passed from team to team?&#8221; he said. He then devised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}