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‘*l must say that I think we are apt to make too much fuss about heavygoing and a wet ball,” says M. P. Marshall, well-known English Rugby player and critic. “There was a time, not long ago, when forwards welcomed a really sticky afternoon simply because they enjoyed using their fe§t, and knew that they would not have constantly to be chasing across the field after their more nimble and spectacular brethren behind the' scrum. In a mud-fight, the scrummager came into his own, and spectators and threequarters might be washed away completely for all he cared. Nowadays the forward is of a different type, a sort of hybrid runnel' and worker, who is prepared to use his hands more than his feet, and therefore joins in grumbling against the rain.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 8
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