Four Chch footballers in side

Press, 8 March 1988, Page 44

Four Chch footballers in side

! I l| 1 Five All Blacks and four Christchurch footbailers wijh French club playing experience are included in the;[ national Mririst rugby side which is to [ play a Canterbury invitation XV under lights at Rugby Park : on Saturday evening. ; l| The match [is being played as part of the centennial celebrations of the [ Marist Brothers. 'iljhe All) Blacks in the ; || ‘‘green

machine” are John Schuster and John Gallagher (both Wellington), Bernie McCahill (Auckland),. Richard Loe (Waikato), and Mike Brewer (Otago). The four players with French experience are Tala Kele (prop), [Bernie Ryan (flanker), and Steve Baker and Greg [ Coffey behind the scrum. | The opposing side, previously announced, has lost two members through

i the unavailability of Albert Anderson and an achilles tendon injury suffered by Tony McDonald. Dallas Seymour, the swift University loose forward who played himself | into the New Zealand sevens team last weekend, will take over from McDonald, and it is hoped that Anderson’s fellow All Black, Andy Earl, will take over from him at lock. A plan is afoot for the

well-known players to mingle with the crowd at the one-day cricket match between New Zealand and England at Lancaster Park on Saturday, giving away ! rugby tickets to those spectators who recognise them. The Marist team is: Gallagher, Richard Smith, McCahill, Ed Sparrow, Schuster, Coffey, Baker; Adrian Kennedy or Bruce Houghton, Brewer, Alan Winder, Mark Connell, Ryan, Loe, Alan Munroe, Kele.