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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 15

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BACKS IN HEAVY GOING

There was mud and slush in plenty at Nairnville Park for the Onslpw-Athletic second division match, but the Athletic backs did not seem in the least perturbed by it. With Judd, not long up from the juniors, hooking brilliantly, the ball came out smartly and cleanly to the half-back, Thompson, and he got it away perfectly with well-timed dive passes to Scott.

. Outside Scott was Rowberry, and outside him the veteran Pelham, with two keen and wide-awake wings in Glengarry and, Parkhouse. All. these players handled cleanly, ran strongly, and kicked with, judgment, and they, were a much more impressive combination than the Onslow rearguard. They stood deep and threw long passes,which proved a much more effective weapon of attack than the shallow formation adopted by their opponents^

Time was when the Onslow back division was. a dangerous attacking, force, but the rearguard has lost a good deal of its sparkle, and its. weaknesses are particularly pronounced when, as so often happens nowadays, it has to operate on a wet ground and with a ball not too easy to handle.

The fact that Onslow were able to hold the redoubtable Athletic team to a draw was a tribute to the forwards, who, if none of them shone out as did Jacobs, Godber, and Stephenson, for example, in the Athletic pack, were all working1 busily all day.