{"id":3683,"date":"2024-05-13T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2024-05-13T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:38:32","slug":"obituary-936-myles-macduff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: #936 Myles MacDuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Myles MacDuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swamp Fox #936 Myles MacDuff passed away on Sunday the 12<sup>th<\/sup> of May.\u00a0 Myles debuted in 2003 and played in every game during that campaign as a devasting number eight.\u00a0 This culminated in him being awarded the Air New Zealand Most Valuable NPC player of 2003.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Myles contribution to rugby in the province stretched wide and far.\u00a0 He represented the Whangamata and Hauraki North clubs with pride.\u00a0 He won the famous Coulter Cup, the supremacy of Secondary School rugby with Hauraki Plains College three times and the last one in 1994 as captain.\u00a0 He also won the Thames Valley Premier Championship, the McClinchy Cup, with Hauraki North in 2004 as a player and again in 2007 as a coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Thames Valley Rugby Union would like to express their sincere condolences to Myles family and communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB-P1-Myles-McDuff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB-P1-Myles-McDuff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB-P1-Myles-McDuff.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thamesvalleyswampfoxes.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB-P1-Myles-McDuff-300x200.jpg 300w, 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