NORTH CANTERBURY RUGBY
Sir,—As a keen follower of Rugby I would like to express a few comments on the game and management of it in North Canterbury. What is our sub-union doing to keep the game popular? Precisely nothing. It appears to me and many others with whom I have spoken, that our management is only interested in the three leading teams and plenty of representative football. Why deprive a hundred other players of competitive football while a scanty few are away playing representative or Country. Surely it is obvious that there is absolutely no interest in the knock-out competition. One club for five Saturdays had no football, two byes on the following Saturdays and two home games in the first round. Let the management committee and selector move away from Rangiora and Sefton and foster the game in all clubs and grades. The selector may find a dozen representatives he did not know existed.— Yours, etc., RUGBY DOWNHILL. August 26, 1951.
[Mr R. D. Catherwood, president of the North Canterbury Sub-Union, had no comment to make when this letter was referred to him.]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26516, 3 September 1951, Page 2
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