AS EXPERT'S OPINION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 167, 15 July 1907, Page 3

AS EXPERT'S OPINION.

■■ EOME TEAM SHOUIJS HAVE WON. - SYDNEY. July 14. Swannell, formerly a member of the British Rugby team under the captaincy of Bedell-Sivright.. in criticising the match in a Sydney paper, states:—"Canopy, the match was not one that lends nseli to much description. Doggedly taught though the game. was. with one or two exceptions, it was devoid of those electrifying bits of play that m&.Ke a crowd stand up and yell their hopes and tears."

Xew s onth wales, he considers. Should have scored on at least three occasions in the first half, buz the chances were lost, simply by bad passing. There was a fatal lack of finality which there should not have been, and" it was altogether unforgivable. The New Zeaianders, he continues, in the second half *°ok advantage of their chances, deservedly winning a game in which there w«re 60 minutes out of 90 on the defensive. Swamiell considers the local fullback a streng point on his side, just as it r*s a weak spot on the New Zealand «T' - c local forwards, he thinks, had T^iv m of to ° much kicking in anohhng rushes, and in ruck wock Newborn Wales did not exhibit the sterforwSa 316 stowil h? - tte New - Ze * land