SATURDAY’S ‘MATCH.
To flu! Editor. Sir, —Being a spectator of Saturday’s match, I would, with your kind permission, like to insert a few remarks through the columns of your valuable paper, re same. I was greatly disappointed in regard to the standard of play ; it appeared to me that the game was not football at all, but simply scramble, and what the referee was doing to allow such carryings on by players, I cannot make out. We talk about our past players and “ off-side Mac,” but I am sure if any of those gentlemen had been present last Saturday, they would have felt their titles leaving and going to the honour of the blacks. 1 am of opinion that the wrong team won, and had the game been under more experienced refereeing, the result, would have been in favour of the plucky little Greens. I am also told that your SubUnion has no Referees’ Association. If this is so, you. can never expect to have decent rugby played in your town. —Yours etc., James Clark, Cornwall, [We have never yet found an immaculate referee. Will our correspondent offer his services?Ed. H.]
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 11 June 1907, Page 3
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191SATURDAY’S ‘MATCH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 11 June 1907, Page 3
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