Mid-Canterbury faces Taranaki
Mid-Canterbury will be as close to full strength as possible for its vital second division promotionrelegation rugby match against Taranaki, at Ashburton today.
Taranaki met MidCanterbury in New Plymouth in the 1978 season and won that game, 24-16. Jock Ross, Grant Perry, Alistair Morrison, Bruce Parkin and Murray Roulston remain of that MidCanterbury side while the former All Blacks Murray Watts and Dave Loveridge, remain from the Taranaki team.
Morrison will play his seventieth first class game for his union today and Roulston his hundredth. Warren Frew will be playing his sixtieth. They all know that two of the main objectives, the
Ranfurly Shield and Lions matches, were lost. All that remains is the quest for first division.
Mid-Canterbury has lifted itself before and it will need to do so today if it is to beat a team which has almost casually thrust aside North Island second division sides. The teams are:
Mid-Canterbury: John Holmes; Geoff Frew, John Mudgeway, Murray Young; John Moore, Roulston; Paul Williams; Parkin; Morrison, Ross, Allan Hill, Warren Frew; Huia Gordon, Perry and Bill Thomas.
Taranaki: Kieran Crowley, Bryce Robins, Watts, Tony Arnold, Charlie McAlister, Brian Quin; Loveridge; Lindsay Thomson, Trevor Hucker, Richard Julian, Jamie Connell, Ray Wishnowsky; Garry Topping, Lyall Bunn and Warren Bunn.
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