Quite Candid

NZ Truth, 7 February 1925, Page 11

Quite Candid

SOUTH AFRICAN WRITER ON ALL

BLACKS,

From the manner m which the New Zealand Rugby team is hammering the best teams m Britain it would appear thut no combination that South Africa could get together would be capable of beating the All Blacks (says a South African writer). From what one reads of Porter's team, I thing it can be taken for granted that they are about the finest combination m the world to-day, and I do not think for one moment that South Africa is breeding such capable exponents. As a ihattsr of fact, though the Springboks beat Britain m the tests m this country, their form was nothing to make a fuss of, and probably we triumphed because of the. weakness of the opposition. Certainly the All Blacks, by their pronounced victories, are setting a standard " which, I am afraid, would be beyond South Africa, who, before they pay a visit to the Old Country, must find some centres. Personally, I do not think for one moment that South Africa, had she been playing m England, could have done to English county teams what the New Zealanders have succeeded m doing.