New-look Marlb. not easy meat

Press, 22 September 1978, Page 24

New-look Marlb. not easy meat

BY

BARRIE SIMPSON

Complacency, it has been said, cost the All Blacks the third test against Australia. Beware, Canterbury B, that the knowledge that Marlborough will have nine of its top players absent from the team for tomorrow’s match at Rugby Park does not produce the same state of mind. Although a relatively trnn'! union. Marlborough

has great depth in its rugby and the team it will field in Christchurch tomorrow will be almost as strong as the strongest it can turn out.

The players not available for tomorrow’s match are the All Black Brian Ford, playing in the inter-island match, and eight other players competing in the regional “sevens” finals at Greymouth — Brian Dwyer, Jim Love. Graeme Lomas and

Dave Neal in the forwards and Richard May, Brian Hunter, lan McAlpine and Kevin Price.

Marlborough has already won the South Island second division championship and is looking forward to the pro-motion-relegation match. The union is most anxious to reenter the first division. The team it will field tomorrow has been drawn from a very enthusiastic squad that has trained hard and won well under the coaching of the former Marlborough lock, Ray Sutherland. The forward pack is among the strongest in the country.

It has gained strength, too, in the return of the veteran centre, Steve Martell, fully recovered after being thrown from a maverick motorcycle on his farm.

The team is:— Bruce Paterson, David Whitehead, Marfell, Steve McKee; Colii. Timms, Tony □everaux: Peter Baker; Fangi McDonald; Bruce Kenny, Mark Best, Grant Harrison, Luckie MacDonald; Bosun Huntley (Captain), Kevin Sutherland, Ross Rendell.

Reserves: Alan de Joux, Robbie Taylor, Jim Cassidy and Phil Welch.

Asian Games— The International Amateur Athletics Federation has withheld sanction of the eighth Asian Games because of the exclusion of Israel, an I.A.A.F. official said in Bangkok.