TWO MANY SENIORS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 20

TWO MANY SENIORS

FICTITIOUS HONOUR

The even contests in the second division of the A grade provide one of the strongest arguments in favour of a restriction of the number of senior A teams. Except for those who are prepared to argue that 'Wellington can continue to recognise 16 senior A teams j and 12 senior B teams it would be a happy result if the ultimate effect of the divisions introduced this season should be the limiting of the senior A grade to teams which are reasonably entitled to the distinction. , Those on the fringe of senior A status ] could be placed in the B grade and a system of promotion introduced by which the highest honours could be earned by any club able to win its way through.' It is somewhat difficult to •understand the viewpoint of a club which strives to have its first fifteen classed as senior A when it is apparent that the team will be incapable of extending most of its opponents. The public expects a certain standard from senior A teams, and that standard can only be maintained if the grade is limited to teams classified in it according to their playing ability. It must not be forgotten that the junior grade at present is really the fourth grade, and this fact becomes an important consideration when the Wellington junior representatives are called upon: to meet the Canterbury juniors, for instance. In Christehurch there-are only eight senior teams, and there are many playera in Wellington who would' be eligible for the junior representative side if it were not for ;the number of nominal senior teams.