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controlled heel and until Going came on de Villiers was able to make his pass untroubled either by Laidlaw or the All Black forwards, T. N. Lister and I. A. Kirkpatrick. Slow Movers Good and all as the All Black’s scrummaging was, certain features of this demand consideration. Since the tour began, the two slowest players at every training have been A. E. Hopkinson and B. L. Muller. They are the undisputed champions lat the slow trot. Certainly in matches they play with much more fire and there have been many times when Muller has been as quick to the loose ball as the loose forwards. But these two, and other forwards, were not thronging to the ball on Saturday as All Blacks packs of the recent past have done. That wonderful but unlucky centre of the 1956 Springboks in New Zealand, W. Rosenberg, was amazed. “I remember your packs in New Zealand,” he said, “and while I was playing Rugby league in England during the 1960 s I saw the teams led by Whineray and Lochore. The forwards of Pretoria simply wouldn’t compare with the forwards I saw in England.” It was a just, if extremely severe, comment.