Elite league course
Forty of New Zealand’s most promising rugby league players assembled at Lincoln College yesterday for the first elite coaching school to be held in Canterbury. . Designated “the game plan,” the three days of fitness work and coaching are part of the New Zealand Rugby League’s programme to develop future Junior Kiwis and full internationals. The players have been chosen from throughout the country and are aged between 18 and 20 years. > . The New Zealand test' coach, Tony Gordon, and the N.Z.R.L. director of coaching, Bob Hall, head a coaching team which also includes Ray Haffenden, Laurie Stubbing, Frank Endacott, Tony Coll and David Field. Fitness checks were carried out yesterday. Today the emphasis turns to skills and team training, and the course ends with a match tomorrow.
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Press, 18 February 1989, Page 92
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