DISCARDED STEEL MAY GET TRIAL PLACE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 19

DISCARDED STEEL MAY GET TRIAL PLACE

rfrf’m Our Own Reporter) ! HAMILTON. ! The decision of the New Zealand Rugby Union to ask' the All Black selectors to j choose a New Zealand ■ XV to play the rest at Wellington on Tuesday j has put the selectors in I the position of having to i name their shadow test team today. It is something that the selectors would rather; not have to do as it com-1

mits them too early in the season. There are unlikely to be many surprises in the New Zealand XV. But The Rest team may include some “unknowns." It is not secret that the selectors have not been happy with the standard of North Island half-back play in the trials and a 20-year-old Wairarapa player, B. F. Elder, is thought likely to be brought into the trial, i

Another newcomer could be the Canterbury wing, A. G. Steel, who surprisingly was left out of the South Island team. The main position In doubt in the New Zealand XV is the second five-eighths, and it is possible that I. R. Macßae, if fit, will fill this role. The New Zealand XV could be: M. W. Williment: M. J. Dick, R. Rangi, W. M. Birt-j wistle; Macrae, M. A.

Herewini; C. R. Laidlaw: B. L. Lachore, W J. Nathan. C. E. Meads, S. T Meads, K R. Tremain; K F Gray, B McLeod, E. J. Hazlett. In the rest team. R. J. Conway is certain to be given a run, while the fiveeighths. B A. Watt, P. H. Murdoch and D. A. Arnold, and the props, K Barry, B. Thomas and P. Scott positions where there is some doubt also will be given their chances.