Sub-unions team strong
The return of Alex Wyllie and John Taylor to the side should greatly help the Canterbury Sub-unions rugby team to end its 1976 programme with a win over Nelson Bays at Rangiora this afternoon.
Bo til players missed the team’s recent southern tour and sorely felt the absence of a first five-eighths of Taylor’s judgment and experience.
The Sub-unions selector (Mr A. E. Hopkinson) has named the strongest available team, Murray Cameron and Geoff Henderson being unavailable because of injuries. After winning only two games, none last year, in two seasons, the Nelson Bays side has shown improved form this year and there is optimism in the district that it will be the South Island team that will win automatic promotion next year from division two to division one of the national championship. Nelson Bays began the season on an encouraging note by beating East Coast, 26-15, and then followed a 14-9 win over Buller in what was the first South Island section two match of the
national competition. However, since then Nelson Bays has been heavily defeated by both Wellington B and the New Zealand Juniors.
The best-known members of the team are in the backs, who are being coached this year by the former Canterbury and All Black wing, Ross Smith. Stewart Robertson and Colin Haig, who has played for Canterbury University and Manawatu, are ei.terprising three-quarters and the first five-eighths and captain, Merrin Hodgson, returns to the side after a break of three years. Against East Coast, Hodgson kicked 18 of Nelson Bays’ 26 points.
The teams are: Sub-unions.—D. Smolensk!, R. Ogg, D. Stewart, S. Bray, A. Munro, J. Taylor, J. Munro, A. Wyllie, D. Hayes, B. Farmer, B. Higginson, B. Henderson, B. Thompson, M. Ryan, J. Stubbs. Nelson Bays. —W. Lucre, S. Robertson, G. Fry, C. Haig, R. Neighbours, M. Hodgson, J. McDonald, M, Dore, A. Dick, G. Organ, S. Phipps, B. Brooks, J. Baryluk, K. Lynch, B. Carter. The curtain-raiser ■ will be the maiden game between Canterbury Sub-unions colts and their Nelson Bays counterparts. _
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