Nelson Lost Chances In Rugby Game

Just as a battle was lost for want of a horseshoe, so also Nelson lost its Rugby match against Marlborough for want of a bit of positive thinking in the last fifteen minutes of the game". Marlborough, scoring 10 points early in the first half with a brand of fiery Rugby which left Nelson all at sea, won 10-6. But it could easily have lost had Nelson not frittered away penalties awarded it in the last 10 minutes of play and at a time when Nelson was on top. In each case attempts at goal were made and these were persisted with right to the death knock, when it was very obvious that five points were needed to win. A fair summing up of this was that while Marlborough deserved to win after its display in the first half, Nelson did not deserve to lose.

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E. Ercolano gets his pass away a split second before he is clobbered by Marlborough forwards

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It appears that this time Bruce Smith might have lost this lineout to Marlborough

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John Miller makes his charge a trifle late

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G. Rayner in full flight after he had initiated a run from his own twenty-