Challenger to eye up opposition
(From Our Own Reporter) BLENHEIM.
The Marlborough Rugby team and its supporters will be sitting in the stand at Eden Park on Saturday carefully assessing Auckland and silently urging it to a Ranfurly Shield win over Waikato.
Marlborough has the last shield challenge this year, next Tuesday. The 21-member touring party left Blenheim yesterday with the coaches, Ralph Coulton and Doug Saul, union . representatives and supporters, on a charter flight direct to Gisborne where the team will play Poverty Bay today. On Saturday morning the group will travel by bus to Auckland, and it should arrive in time to see Waikato’s challenge for the shield. The team is fit and at full strength. The No. 8, Alan Sutherland, who was earlier reported to be suffering from bruised ribs, said he was still a little tender. Since he suffered the bruising before the inter-island match almost two weeks ago it is very unlikely that the healing injury will prevent his playing in the big game on Tuesday.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 30
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