LEAGUE TOURS
Future cycle to be fixed (From ALAN GRAHAM. N.Z.P.A. staff correspondent) MANCHESTER. New Zealand should know soon whether it will have a full-scale Rugby league tour of Britain next year. A meeting of the international board in Leeds today is expected to lay down the board’s usual guide line on the cycle of tours. It was too late for New Zealand to organise a full tour in 1969 when Britain postponed the World Cup, and it is generally assumed that New Zealand is due for a full tour next year—the first since 1965. Inquiries around clubs indicate that the Kiwis would be welcome. But objection to a tour could come from France and Britain when a counter proposal from France to play the World Cup annually will be considered.
New Zealand does not want any reduction in the cycle of long tours, and Australia is expected to support this view. “Seeing the way our players have improved in just a week over here I am more than ever convinced that we need regular tours with hard matches to give our players experience,” the chairman of the New Zealand Rugby league (Mr R. G. McGregor) said.
"This present short tour of eight games will do us a lot of good. A full tour would do so much more, and would help 26 players—not just the 19 we have now,” he. said.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32439, 28 October 1970, Page 34
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