Many Changes in Canterbury Team

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 6

Many Changes in Canterbury Team

LILBURNE’S NEW ROLE DALLEY OUT FOR SEASON From Our Own Correspondent CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. Canterbury will not have anything like its strongest team to meet Wanganui tomorrow and Hawke’s Bay next Saturday. It will be without G. F. Hart, H. Lilburne and A. I. Cottrell, who are with the New Zealand players in Wellington for the fourth Test; G. D. Innes, who is temporarily out of the game with injured hipmuscles requiring daily treatment at the Christchurch Hospital; and W. C. Dailey, who has been knocked out of the game for the rest of the season. These factors, and the non-availabil-ity of G. T. Alley, mean that, compared with the team with which Canterbury beat the British team, this province will have changes in the front row of its scrum, the lock of the scrum, the halfback, the five-eighths line, one wing of the threequarter line, and the fullback position—vital changes indeed. It is hardly likely that Dailey will play again. Certainly he will not be seen in action again this season. In the match in which his team. High School Old Boys, was deposed from the leadership, Albion beating it 11—3, last Saturday, Dailey fell on his left shoulder in such a way thai he renewed the injury to a ligament which he suffered at Newcastle, in the All Blacks visit to Australia last year and which kept him out of the game for the rest of that season. In answer to a question whether he was likely to play again next year, Dailey said, ‘We’ll see,” but his club-mates anticipate that he will not play any more football. T. F Mullan takes Dailey’s place behind the Canterbury scrum, but it is not definite yet that he will be available for the Southern tour. N. P McGregor, who is to be married in October cannot go South with the Canterbury side, and so he is not being played in the game with Wanganui in which C J. Oliver is being tried again as second five-eighth. If Canterbury had its best team afield Oliver would be a wingthreequarter It is most likely, now, that D. Hay and H. Lilburne will be the five-eighths for the Southern tour. Last Wednesday, Lilburne was played as second five-eighth instead of first, for Town against Country, and he showed brilliant form, demonstrating that he is much better further out from the scrum than in the position in which he has to play in club matches. As a second five-eighth, he has to take passes on the move, and the flatfootedness which sometimes is apparent when he is at first five-eighth disappears. The outer position, too, gives him plenty of scope for his penetration and speed Lilburne has a great deal of speed. The form that Lilburne showed in the position better suited to him recalls the fact that in two matches just before the third Test in South Africa two years ago, Lilburne was brilliant when he was associated with M F. Nicholls in the five-eighth line For the third Test Lilburne and L. M. Johnson were the five-eighths, and Lilburne did not play well with Johnson Speculation about how a Corner-Nicholls-Lil-burne-Cooke combination wou’d go behind a New Zealand scrum is interesting. The team to play Hawke's Bay will not be chosen until after the Wanganui game.