STAGE IS SET FOR JUBILEE RUGBY SEASON

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1935, Page 9

STAGE IS SET FOR JUBILEE RUGBY SEASON

TARANAKI’S SENIOR CLUB TEAMS. PREPARING*.i - .

PROSPECTS IN' CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES REVIEWED PROVINCE ANTICIPATES BRIGHT FOOTBALL

(By

“Side-Row.”)

A FORTNIGHT from to-morrow Taranaki’s fifteen senior Rugby teams will be taking the 'initial series of matches in the provincial competition With a fine series of home ep matches to be played and prospects for some of a trip to England wi h th» All Blacks a tlm end* ? the year players will be keen to produce their very bes>. How will clubs react to> this; Will they insist on bright football, the game for the game’s sake, to ensure the best opportunities their best players and the best entertainment for the poor old goose “ s .^ e ° ht an d S arrive public ?Or will they let the lesser lights drift in and out of practices and tamuog nnghits and a at other grounds late as has been the custom with some in the past ? c lubs depends ward in success and full coffers. The stage is set, the public us waiting i and uponi thec übs depe the answer to the query, is the 1935 season to be a fitting jubi ee for Rugby m reviews The success of any team is pi’oportionate to the use made of the maten . p tup in mMatae M tte prospects o£ the senior teams throughout Taranaki, news of the changes from the persormel’of last year and the new talent that has appeared. To the teams rule the roost this season ? there can be only one answer-wait and see. From what bide Ko has heard from the club executives the end of the season will find all teams ® p table; which spirit of optimism, though prone to disappointment, is all to the good.