FOOTBALL PIRATING
AUSTRALIAN ACCUSATION Prior to leaving Auckland recently Mr. G. F. Hutchins, manager of the English League football team, stated that he considered the standard of play in Australia had deteriorated. These remarks drew the following caustic comment from a Sydney writer:— Why has the standard lowered? Mainly because the clubs which constitute the English Rugby League are neither more nor less than football pirates. They have no compunction about picking the eyes out of talent developed in Australia. The vaunted truo spirit of sport becomes a mere brass-sounding figure of speech. Australia sends a team Home, and English clubs angle for the stars. England sends a team out here, and English agents angle for the stars as they shine. It looks on the face of facts that the English Rugby League has little interest in Australian football beyond regarding it firstly as a nursery for its clubs, and secondly as a field for exploiting financially by garnering handsome profit from its tours out here.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21281, 7 September 1932, Page 14
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