Williams to be Kiwi choice?
PA Auckland Dennis Williams, now a player-coach at Mt Isa. could play for the Kiwi rugby league team in Australia next month. The Kiwi .coach, Ces Mountford, is keen to use the former international as part of a plan to rest key players before the first test against the Kangaroos in Brisbane on July 3. It seems that Williams is being considered for the Queensland game on June 27, a week before the test. The only problem was a report that Williams was injured and was not playing. But Williams told the New Zealand league’s executive director, Mr Ross Williams, on Monday that he had been playing for three weeks. Reports have filtered back that Williams, who shifted to Mt Isa in January, has been training diligently and is in the best shape he has been since making his debut for the Kiwis as a 17-year-old in 1971. His inclusion would strengthen a backline shich looks a trifle shaky with only one specialist stand-off half, Canterbury’s David Field, who is making his first tour.
Williams’s goalkicking ability would also be appreciated by a team which has just the one fulltime kicker, Lewis Hudson (Canterbury). Meanwhile, the Kiwis will assemble in Christchurch on Monday to prepare for a warm-up game against the South Island on Wednesday.
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