FOOTBALL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5473, 11 September 1929, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

NEXT SATURDAY’S MATCHES. SENIORS V. JUNIORS. Saturday’s game at the local domain should prove of great interest to Paeroa, for a battle royal is to be staged between the senior and junior representative teams of the Paeroa Rugby Union. The seniors, naturally, do not wish to suffer ignominy at the hands of the juniors, and the juniors, on the other hand, will do their best to show that they are equal, if not better. It is expected that as a curtainraiser a match between the United and Suburbs third-grade teams will be played to complete the club competition. The following are the teams :— Seniors. —Rare, McCollum, Swann, Wells, McGarvey. A. C. McCollum, Moore,. Nield, Henderson, Neil, Fitch, Page. Carrick. Johnson, Taykr. Emergencies : Murray, Brown, Catlin, and Coldicutt. Juniors.—Verran, Wilkinson, Poland, Vercoe, Mead, Rare, Masters, Walls, Holwell, Morrison, Handley, Gamble, Miller, Ganley, Williams. Emergencies : Smith, Alp, Barclay. PLAINS V. WAIHI. The following teams have been selected to represent Hauraki Plains against Waihi on Saturday, the seniors at Ngatea and the juniors at Waihi Seniors.—F. Scott, K. Graham, J. Hedley, J. Masters, W. Costello, J. O’Carroll, A. Elvin, F. Costello, G. Elvin, R. Beasley, C. Blacklaws, J. Fraser, W. Dimmock, P. Clark, -R. Madgwick. Emergencies : G> Hutchinson, Marshall, Tierney. Juniors.—T. White, A. Stanley, L. Coxhead, W. Ryan, W. Findlay, V. McPherson, A. Olsen, H. Kirkman, C. Murray, K. Caie, S. Nicholson, M. Caie, F. Donaghy, A. Nicholson, L. Pett. Emergencies : C. McCormick, S. Craig. Nicholson’s bus will leave Waitakaruru at 12.30 p.m., and Ngatea 1 p.m. The following players will represent Waihi at Ngatea :— Thornton, McNamara, Hume, Johns, Saunders, Dillimore, Snodgrass, Price, Hearne, Radford, Allen, Robinson, Walters, Mathers, Jennings. Emergencies : Backs,' McDermott and Henry; forwards, Campbell and Pankhurst.

CRITICISM OF PLAYERS.

(By “Onlooker.”)

The Paeroa-Waihi game witnessed last Saturday was a very poor exhibition of the code.

Thornton, the full-back for Waihi, was very safe, and had little to do. centre played a good game, and is also a good forward. The wing thfee-quarters were not very brilliant; Johns is a good goal-kicker. Dillimore did not show up much, and Saunders has played better, but was the best back on the Waihi side. Snodgrass played a fair game, but was not impressive. The Waihi pack did not play as well as was expected, the local forwards holding them safely. Rare, the Paeroa full-back, was very safe, but is an erratic line-kicker. McCollum, on the wing, did not get many chances. Wells, on the other wing, has plenty of pace and did some good work. Swann, at centre, played a good game, being about the best back on the Paeroa side. Catlin was very weak at five-eighths. McCollum, the other five-eighths, did a lot of stopping. He did not receive the best of treatment. Moore at half-back played a good game, but tried to do too much. He has a bad habit of running with the ball from the scrum instead of passing it to his five-eighths. The forwards played well. Neil and Henderson made a good front row. Page was prominent in the loose, but is apparently shy in the tight stuff, where he would be more useful; he also is becoming a chronic offsider. Carrick was the best forward on the field, and is improving with each game. Nield at rover ha’d a lot to do, and held his own with Price, who is recognised as the best rover in the Thames Valley.