REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 34, 8 February 1913, Page 10

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL.

A NfEW PLVMOCTH SUGGESTION. GRADED 'DISTRICTS. Xow that the proposed triangular tests have been dropped, Mr. MeLeod, of the Taranaki team, has come forward with a suggestion that is well worthy of consideration. Writing to an Auckland enthusiast. Mr. McLeod states that he is endeavouring to arrange for a Taranaki A and B representative team. The A team would play Auckland. Wellington, Canterbury and Otago, and perhaps Wanganui, and tie B lea-rn, South Auckland, Thames, Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa. Manawatu, etc. Xo doubt, continues Mr. McL«od, a number of these B teams would be too good for Taranaki, but it would mean more men gaining representative honours, and more players continuously in training till the conclusion of the season, and if the New Zealand Rugby Union could Ibe ind-uced to grade the various teams officially, it -would be a decidedly good thing for football. There is no doubt, says Mr. (McLeod, there is too much -football that is played br the same teams. Last year Taranaki played 10 matches, some hard, some soft, and if a B team had been engaged in the ■latter games, they would have been much more strenuously contested, and much more interesting. Mr. 'McLeod's views are certainly progTessive, and it is to be hoped he will push the matter forward.