"ALL BLACK" TRIALS: OTAGO NOMINATIONS
TO THE EDITOR
Sir,—As usual, Southern players predominate in the list of nominations for the South Island team, no fewer than six out of the nine nominations being from that club. Kaikorai, which is on level terms with Southern in the competition, does not get one player nominated, although Barnes is, I consider, one of the best forwards at present playing in Dunedin. D. Murray also was entitled to consideration in the back division. . Last Saturday, in the match against Southern, the Dunedin forwards more than held' their own, and if they had been as well served by their ; backs a different ending to the game would probably have resulted. Yet neither Berry nor Carter two fine forwards in the Dunedin team, is nominated. There is surely something wrong when players such as I have mentioned are overlooked and two-thirds of the players nominated are drawn from one club. When Alec M'Donald, the former All Black, was the Otago selector the players of every club could look for a fair deal, and, although an old Kaikorai player himself, he never showed any bias in favour of his old club.—l am, etc., Dunedin, June 16. Old Tlayer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 6
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