LIVELY RUGBY SIDE
Prospects of Poverty Bay Team A Rugby correspondent writes: “The Poverty Bay-East Coast Rugby team is capable of putting up fair resistance in the match against Otago at Gisborne next week. It plays a fast, bustling spoiling type of game which is apt to upset good teams. “ Poverty Bay beat Hawke s Bay last year on the former’s home ground by 17 points to 6, and last Saturday won again at Napier by 13 to 3. The team in each case was Poverty Bay without East Coast which may strengthen the side to play Otago. If the Otago forwards are up to the traditional standard, the touring side should not be troubled in Gisborne unless you make the mistake of taking the home side too cheaply. In that case anything could happen. . “There are some fine opportunists among them, notably a big and powerful quarter-cast Maori second fiveeight, McKinlay. A trifle nonchalent at times, he is, nevertheless, the most dangerous man in the side. The Otago forwards should know how to deal with our loose bustlers.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 2
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