OTAGO'S FOOTBALL REPS.

Evening Star, Issue 14163, 13 September 1909, Page 4

OTAGO'S FOOTBALL REPS.

■lO Tim j-.nrron

Sir,—May I suggest to l.ho selectors that the team to play against Canterbury consist of fourteen forwards and. a. fuli-ba-ck, although it must lie admitted that against Wellington even our torwa.uls wore pumped out by the end of the. lirst (spell. This contingency could be. provided for by bavin" ;i supply of oxygen on hand to be';kl mini tutored as required. Why were our backs bowled oyer so suddenly by the Weiiiimlon backs? The fault lief; to some extent in our five-eighths and threo-quarteis beinrr bunched together too near the scrum. On numerous occasions when an Otiisro forward was bowled over an UUn_'o back or two—loo (-tests up—went dowir-wit'h him If backs are necessary, the much-boomed newspaper players Bonnet and Davidson should make, room for Danrey and another. •The University player, at any rate, would raise a little thrill whenever the liall happened along his way, and that would be some recompense to those who paid two shillings for threepence worth of football —I am, etc., Nkw Blood. September 13.-

TO THH KDITOIt. Sir,—l think the following would bo a, very good combination to represent Ota."o against Canterbury next Saturday:—Fu?lhack, Scott; three-quarters—Dansey, Harley. O'Sullivau; five-eighths, Wilson and M'Doirgall; halves, Sutherland and Deane • and the forwards that played against Wellington.—l am, etc;, " H.W.H. Port Chalmers, September 13.