Sorensens out of rugby league tour
PA Auckland The potential of the Kiwi rugby league team to, tour Britain and France next month will be reduced • by the announcement of the unavailability of the Sorenson brothers to tour, but some southern leagues may he pleased. N These leagues had maintained that tour places should be reserved for players domiciled in New ■ Zealand,, rather than based in- Australia, as Kurt and Dane Sorenson — acknowledged as grand forwards even by Australian standards — are. Mr: R. G. McGregor, the New Zealand Rugby League chairman, said yesterday: “The Sorensons’
terms would have been met, but the players have now said that they feel they have had too much football, and would decline; the tour.- •(:• ’i.'. ’••it: “Olsen ‘Fllipaina is a ? very unlikely tourist. He has’ : a; knee injuiy, but .other personal -problems could also preclude , his accepting the Invitation -to tour.” The one. item of good news is that the dynamic forward. Mark Graham (Brisbane North), will be available and keen to toiiit One change has been made to the trial teams on Saturday, with the inclusion; of John, Smith (Te Atatu) in place of Chris Jordan (Ellerslie), who has- withdrawn from the trials and is unavailable to tour.
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