FOOTBALL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2443, 6 March 1909, Page 5

FOOTBALL

ANOTHER TEAM OF “ALL BLACKS.” TO BE INVITED TO VISIT GREAT BRITAIN. It has been definitely decided by the Welsh Rugby Union to take the initiative in extending an invitation to the next side oi colonial players to visit Great Britain. <A writer in a recent number of the “Sportsman' states that he is in a position to say authoritatively that the Welsh Union will in the near future, if it already lias not- done so, ask the co-operation of the English, Scottish, and Irish unions in /proposing to the New land union that the last-named body should send over a team to tour Great Britain in the season of 'l9lO-11. It is probable that the English union will be first approached. What act:on the Scottish and Irish unions will take in joining forces can only be surmised, but as they declined to be associated with the tour of the Australians, it is probable that Scotland, at any rate, may hold aloof from taking an interested part in the proposed tour of the New Zealanders. The writer does not think that the English union will accept unanimously the offer of the Welshmen, vet in the end ho considers it will fall in with the Welsh union’s ideas of the proposed visit. The writer concludes: It may he taken for granted, he sums up, that the All Blacks 'will be seen in England and Wales, at any rate, iu 1910 and 1911.