Bill Osborne to play for Barbarians
NZPA London The Ail Black centre, Bill Osborne, has been included in the prestigious Barbarians squad for its traditional Easter tour of Wales. Osborne, who arrives in London this week from the “World” team’s tour of South Africa, becomes one of the few New Zealanders to have played for the famous club. Others have been Earl Kirton and lan Clarke.
Osborne was going to Britain anyway, for a month’s private holiday, and according to the Barbarians, “readily accepted” the invitation to tour.
The Easter tour of Wales is one of the regular fixtures on the Barbarians’ annual calendar. They play the minor club Penarth on Friday, the main fixture against
Cardiff, on Saturday, Swansea on Monday, arid Newport on Tuesday. The four matches are the same each year. Osborne joins the Scottish captain, lan McGeechan, the Welshmen, Neil Hutchings and David Richards, and England’s Reichar Cardus as the centres in the 34-strong party. The only other foreigners are the two French loose forwards, Jean-Pierre Rives and Jean-Claude Skrela, both of whom were also on the Easter tour last year. No members of the Irish team about to tour Australia were considered, with the result that the only Irishmen in the party are the halfback, John Robbie, and Ireland’s former captain, Shay Deering. Only seven of the 34 players are uncapped.
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Press, 11 April 1979, Page 46
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