"PRETTY TO WATCH"
BUT PENETRATION LACKING
Having seen the representative match at Dunedin last Saturday when Wellington, although gaining the far greater share of the ball, was '(defeated by Otago, a former Victoria College player makes some interesting observations in a letter to a Wellington en-i-thusiast. : "Wellington got the ball .28 times to Otago's 13," he states, "but their backs could not make any head- [ way. They were pretty to watch, but ; could not penetrate. f ! "Your Wellington teams will not, do ! any good until their forwards get into the work in the tight and learn to ruck and'heel from the loose scrums. If you wish to, improve your own team you must "have forwards 'who will stick ! together and who will come through in a bunch. . . That has been the secret of Otago's success in the last few years. "Your winger, Eastwood, has plenty of dash and runs with a beautiful long stride. He would be very dangerous outside a centre-three-quarter who knew his business. The Wellington half-back.was allowed a lot of latitude in the way he put'the ball into the scrums. He 'chucked' it under his own front-row forwards' feet." The writer also mentions that Hawke's Bay seemed to be a very good team spoilt by the way,in which it was coached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 26
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