A Review of Form.

On Saturday the Senior A team played Melrose-Selwyn at Kilbirnie. They won 11-10. After their last runaway victory over this team the result was disappointing, especially since they were really lucky to win.

The team has been showing greater promise over the last month or so, and one could now reasonably expect some good combination. The absence of Rae can in some part explain the poorer showings.

Missen played well again, but must improve his defence, not in going down or in handling, but in that power Rae, along with all good half' backs, has of taking the ball off the feet of the forwards and kicking over his shoulder. Missen is good but, compared with Rae, is stodgy.

The falling away of the forwards in the second spell was disgraceful. They did not pack, and the hooking. which at no stage was good, became quite ineffective.

Tricklebank played his usual safe game. He has been criticised for his penchant for running with the backs, but his repeated successes are a refutation.

Overtoun is extremely sound on defence, and one feels that if the ball came from the scrum faster, so that he could get the ball before being smothered by breaking forwards, his attacking play would become much more effective.

The team lacks also a reliable goal-kicker. Tricklebank is occasionally good, but is sometimes inconceivably poor.

Wilson in the forwards, is playing well. He pushes his weight in the tight and is always near the ball it the loose.

Harpur seems to have suffered a lapse after his early promising play, but it may be due to the lack of combined inside play, which makes every winger. He is playing much better now. Wild at times sees to reach the superb positional play of Ruru, the winger going full out, the opposition hopelessly beaten by a clean cut-in.

The team shows at times really good football, and confirms one's belief in their real ability, but their failures at times, due to laziness or apathy or even, it seems sheer perverseness, are disheartening. We hope that they can see out the season, with its' two inter-college matches, playing as we know they can play.

Administrative Apathy.

This year is no different from preceding years in 'Varsity Rugby, Each year produces a crop of players who have lost confidence in the ability of the club to administer and organise.

What encouragement is offered to lower grade players? Where is the re-grading promised after the first three matches of the season? The last was apparently just an idle promise. Team coaches have been proved adverse to altering their teams. They have their 18 players, and injuries becomes the sole reason for promoting other players.

It is time that the Football Club adopted some measure providing for a re-shuffling of deserving players.

Informal discussions are useless, and a committee could be formed having for its nucleus the captains of the various teams.

Rugby in the Junior Grades.

The Third C football team continued in their winning vein by beating Moera, the leading team, by 21 to 3. A large measure of their success is due to their three-quarter lin which is easily the fastest in the College.

The Junior A's ran the leading team in their grade very close last Saturday. The reason for their loss is easily told: a strange player at half; delayed passes—just the difference between defeat and success. The action of the first fifteen selectors in taking Missen to fill a vacancy in their team can only be described as shortsighted. The Juniors had everything to gain in winning their match, while the Seniors could not possibly alter the opinions that people have of them as a team.