Two Canterbury Players Leaving

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30634, 28 December 1964, Page 13

Two Canterbury Players Leaving

Two Canterbury soccer representatives, D, Simmonds and D. Chapman, and their Nomads club-mate, G. McKenzie, will all be missing from next season’s local competition. Sommonds, the club captain who has many times led Canterbury teams in interprovincial games, is shortly leaving for Australia. He has told club officials that he “wants to see a little bit of the world before settling down.”

Chapman, the Nomads and Canterbury goal-keeper, recently gained a degree in history and will teach at a new school opening near Hamilton. McKenzie, the righthalf, is joining a business firm in Wellington. All three played in the Nomads’ team which reached the national final of the Chatham Cup in 1963 when the club was beaten by North Shore, of Auckland. At the start of last season Simmonds lost his regular place at centre-half for Canterbury to the former English League professional, G. Evans, but played several

games at left-half and ended the season at centre-half when Evans was injured. Chapman started last season as Canterbury’s regular goalkeeper, but then lost his place because of injury and failed to displace the Western ’keeper, D, Smith, when he was fit again. The loss of all three players will be a severe blow to Nomads who, apart from winning the local Chatham Cup competition last season, did not have a successful season.