RUGBY FOOTBALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18063, 13 April 1933, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

OLD BOYS’ TEAM NAMED TO MEET NAPIER TECHNICAL OLD BOYS The Gisborne Old Roys’ Football Club selectors have announced the personnel of the team which is to meet Napier Technical Old Boys’ seniors, in the major Rugby football attraction on tho Childers Road Reserve on Saturday, the combination being a strong one that should extend the visitors to the utmost. Last year’s captain of the district representative team, W. Jeffries, will lead Old Boys in the first of their matches under the new arrangement for the exchange of visits with the Napier club, and the, team is especially strong in the forwards where McPhail, Harrison, Craig, and Tier will provide tho nucleus of a strong pack. The full team is as follows:—Fullback. B. Ogg; three-quarters, Slade, Jeffries, Martin; five-eighths, Pocock and Owen; half-back, W. Morrison; hookers, Thomas and Harrison; middle row, McPhail, Munro, and L. Martin; back row, Fraser, Tier and Craig. Emergencies, Sharp and McConnell. The names of the Napier players Were announced yesterday, and it was noted with interest by followers of the gamo that a number of Hawke’s Bay representatives were included among the visitors, who are to be led by J. Setford. The Napier team will play the Springbok pack system, with three in the front line, four in the second row, and the eighth forward acting as a support and breakaway. The Gisborne Old Boys will play the system adopted with success by 'the All Blacks in South Africa, on the 1928 tour, putting two men down to hook, three men to support them, and two more in the third row of the scrum, the eighth member of the pack going down with the front-row men as loose-head.

There will be a third-grade match between Gisborne Old Boys and Napier High School Old Boys, as a curtainraiser to "the senior game, the visiting third-grade team being regarded as a very capable one. Two of its members wore in the Gisborne Old Boys thirds last season, these being Higgs and Mason, the five-eighths.

CELTS’ WANGANUI VISIT

CARRINGTON NOT AVAILABLE

With the exception of G. Carrington, the Celtic club members chosen for the visit to Wanganui, for the Marist Rugby Clubs’ Association tournament during Easter, have notified that they arc available. The team Will leave Gisborne at midnight to-night, and it is .expected that Wanganui will be reached about .3 p.m. to-morrow. Tournament play commences on Saturday, and the line-up of the Gisborne Celtic team Will be as follows: Fullback, G. Hewson; three-quarters, G. Murland, captain, H. Honan, and E. Cater; five-eighths, B. Hale and H. Airey; half-back, ,T. Delany; front row, A- Milligan, D. Green, and L. McKinley; middle row, E. O’Halloran, T. Dsmlton, J. Parker, and R. Rodgers; back-row man, P. McKinley. It, will be noted that Celtic will pack three-four-ono in the scrum, the long middle row giving solid support to tho hookers, and the solo man in the third row taking up his position according to the side the ball comes in from. . .

The Celts have been training . assiduously for some weeks, in anticipation of the Wanganui trip, and should do well in tho tournament, though the opposition will be very strong.