SCRUM FORMATION

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19885, 14 May 1936, Page 13

SCRUM FORMATION

I CRITICISM RESENTED. ! 1 ( “ NAUGHTY BOY OF CLUBS." l l _#_. i I (By To:egruph.—Press Association.) 1 \\'ELLINGT‘ON. \Vednesday. The Management Committee of the \\'ellingion Rugby Union decided to fail in with the wishes of the New Zealand Union to request its clubs to play three men in the front row of ihe scrummage this season. “The chairman, Mr J. Prendeville, said the chairman of the New Zealand Union had been very unfair in castigaiing \\'eiiington over the matte-I‘. The motion to play three men in the front row of the scrum had been carried at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union by 43 votes to 35. Had he known the motion would the compulsory [he would not have voted for It in that form.

Mr Prendevlile added that while the Wellington Union could ‘ask the ‘clufbs to play three men in the front row there could he no compulsion. Mr Morgan said ihe game, Jolmsonville \'. Pirates, on Saturday last, hail been es—pcvially imied because the diamond scrum formation was played.

“There was no desire to disregard the New Zealand I‘ninn‘s request to play three men am] the .lohnsonvillc Club 40-hjccled tn being singled out as lhe naughly Ifioys ‘of the clubs," said Mr Prcndevllle, "and \\'c nlhject Iv) being singled out. as the naughty 13031 01‘ New Zvnland."