All Black Selectors

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 11

All Black Selectors

Sir,; —With all respect to the Rugby player’s of another age, it must be obvious to even the most, near-sighted observer that our national game has undergone certain significant characteristic changes. The science of the game has been developed to an extraordinary de. gree in the last 25 years—to such an extent that I venture to say, were' such a contest possible, a mediocre presentday team could defeat with the greatest of ease the old-time stalwarts of whom we hear so much. Why, then, should we, in the light of this observation, when nominating selectors of an All Black team, choose men whose playing days were over before the delightfully ferocious moustachitfs they wore were out of favour. In Mark Nicholls, M. J. Brownlie, C. G. Porter, to mention a few, we have the men to select our team. Their knowledge of players, . their knowledge of modern scientific play, and their knowledge of playing conditions in England, are undoubtedly indisputable.—l am, STUDENT OF RUGBY. Wellington. May 8.