THE 3-2-3 SCRUM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 368, 9 March 1932, Page 7

THE 3-2-3 SCRUM.

Albion Club Support* Trial Changes. Controversial questions in Rugby football circles at the present time—the suggested adoption of the 3---3 formation rule and the abolition of the wingforward—were well ventilated at the annual meeting of the Albion football Club last evening. Although some arguments were advanced against the changes, the club finally decided to *uPport the proposal. .. The president, Mr R. W. Britton. »aid that he thought it was advisable for the club to express an opinion on the matter. To assist them in understanding the purport of the proposed changes Mr S. F. Wilson, of the Rugby Union, would give an outline of the case for revision. Actually, said Mr Wilson, the principal change affecting the play would be that dealing with the hooking of the ball in the scrum. The New Zealand Rugby Union had moved the adoption of the 3-2-3 rule, and the abolition of the wing-forward. All that the cluba, however, were being asked to do waa to try the new formation out for two Saturdays There were very few players in Nexv Zealand who knew the 3---3 formation —except from the grandstand, and the only way to find out about new methods was to try them. Finally it was resolved that the club fall in with the suggestion of the Canterbury Rugby Union that the new ideas be given a trial for the first t*o Saturdays of competition football in tne season.