RUGBY UNION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 16

RUGBY UNION

Standard Needs Improving

Lionel Callaghan great Rugby Union enthusiast, hit the nail on the head at a recent Council meeting when he referred to the weak standard and spoke of the necessity to brighten it up before the team for Great Britain is chosen says an Australian paper. One thinks it is the backs and not the forwards that will cause misgivings. We in Sydney have let the evenness of the competition delude us into the belief that all is well. Charlie Brown, also a great Rugger man, thought the fact that club matches had shown a profit was evidence that the standard was good, but here again it was the closely fought matches that brought the money. Unfortunately there are not enough of the Callaghans on the Union and too many who like C.B. who think “what is, is best.” If the flow of young players is to be kept up, the controlling body will need to stop the foul play that was evident last winter. It is not to the credit of the controlling body that the enquiry into the Manly scene near the end of the season has been so long drawn out.

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