TO-DAY’S RUGBY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 142, 18 June 1932, Page 4

TO-DAY’S RUGBY

MARIST HOPES ARE HIGH i A STERN TEST FOR FORWARDS. WHAT OF WANGANUI AND ODD, BOYS! (By “Cross-Bar.”) Manats’ endeavour to-day will be to extend Technical Old Boys, leaders in the senior championship, to the same extent as they did in the first round. If the greens’ ambitions are realised the major match of the afternoon will be close and keen. When these two teams last played the result was a victory for Technical Old Boys by the somewhat inconclusive margin of a penalty goal to nil. The early match on the central ground this afternoon will be between Old Boys and Pirates. In approaching a review of form over the first round and endeavouring to apply deductions therefrom to frame an. estimate of what is likely to result to-day between Marist and the championship leaders, one is conscious of the fact that Technical Old Boys’ success to date has been derived very substantially from their forwards. Ln saying that it is not intended to cast reflections on the form of the backs or to belittle the play of the team as a whole. Youth and fitness in the van, however, have permitted the backs to adopt a certain stylo of play which has been different, in many respects, from that of Old Boys, for instance. When the blue and whites met Old Boys they had that team beaten before the backs shone out to any extent. Practically the whole responsibility for the attack against Old Boys, even allowing for the field goal kicked by Dennis, was thrust upon the forwards. They accepted it and carried it with convincing ability. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that in to-day’s match the van will rise to the occasion again. As a matter of fact the pack has not been accounted for this season except in the first game and that, significantly enough, was against Marist. To say that the forwards were beaten on that occasion is not strictly correct, though. A better term to use would be “equalled.” The blue and whites were never a beaten force and in. the dying stages of play the greens were beginning to lose their earlier vim. Very much the same is likely to occur to-day and what hopes the Marist side have, if they are to be realised, must bo made good in the first spell. Technical Old Boys will be the better finishers. In recent matches Marist has displayed a weakness in the five-eighth lino and if their policy to-day will place responsibilities on the backs in attack, that thinly held position will have to show better form. Against Pirates last Saturday the backs certainly showed more life in defensive work, but this phase of play needs strengthening, too. Defensive backs must go up to their men and put them down. Assuming that Technical Old Boys utilise their rearguard, Marist must tackle and got to their men

quickly. It is more likely, however, that the Technical Old Boys’ van will adopt those hard, upfield forward rushes that have tested every back team in the competition to date. If the greens can counter that play, and fling their van into the conflict with a certain prospect of making the issue a fiftyfifty tussle for possession, the match will be keen and hard. Then, and only then, will Technical Old Boys display the form of their backs. The prediction is: A win for Technical Old Boys. Old Boys and Pirates. Old Boys are determined to make the match against Pirates to-day a moans to prove that, even without their two crack mon, Bullock-Douglas and Egan, they are capable of extending the best. Pirates have displayed very mediocre form in nearly every contest to date and, on that basis, it would appear that this afternoon’s match will result in favour of the reds. The blacks threw away chance after chance in their game with Marist last Saturday and their form on that occasion suggested that a hard team, with plenty of pace in the backs, would have run all over them. •To make up for the defections of Egan and Bullock-Douglas, Old Boys have taken Cox out of the pack, and will play him on the wing. It is very difficult to predict how that changed formation will function, but the greatest hurdle in front of the reds will be to overcome the loss of Egan. A good inside back is hard to replace. Pirates will be hard put to 1o overcome the loss of Lowe, who will not be playing to-day on account of his injured knee. Head is to take a place in the five-eighth line. If this combination does not muster up it might be worth while to bring Williams in and shift cither Wakeling or Head out. The prediction is: A hard match with honours resting easy either way. Kaierau and Ratana. Kaierau should have no difficulty in accounting for Ratana. The natives have not reached anything approaching their form of last year. The shortest day is not far away and, on that account, players must take the field on time. This instruction applies particularly to the three o’clock game.

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