HILL'S POINT OF VIEW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 12

HILL'S POINT OF VIEW.

Hill, when seen in Sydney on Friday night last week, said that ho had preserved a consistent attitude right through"l was of opinion that the selectors should have picked tho team at one sitting. Tho team would then have met ami appointed its manager. Tho players would have to do this according to the board's own rule. In duo course the players' nomination would have oome before the board for confirmation or otherwise. Well, supposing a majority of the players had decided in favour of Laver, then would have been the time for the board to act. If the players had decided upon anyone else as manager, 'the recalcitrant six,' as you call us, would hnvo been prepared to bow to the views of tht majority, But instead the board, or rather the individual few who dominate it, have forced several ot us into the position of crawling before wo can make tho trip. I candidly confess that I wanted to go. It is something to captain an Australian eleven in the tirst triangular contest. 1 believe that I was to bo given .£4OO as a recompense. I would cheerfully take on the task for nothing. The honour would be enough for me. The board, by its action in asking me to go as captain, recognises that 1 am skilful enough as a player, and have sufficient abilities as a leader, to fill an important position. But because I have views as to who our manager should be (and we are allowed by tho board's own rule, you must remember, to select our own manager, subject to the board's confirmation) I am thrown out of the team even before the board knows the nominee of tho team as a whole. I am not only thrown out, but thero are five others, four of whom are batting for Australia on Australian soil ogninst England to-day."