The Archive · 1937

Easy Win Expected

If the Club can adopt tactics which will close the gaps in their defence then the scoring might be kept down within respectable limits, but I am afraid that the game will be finished so far as real interest is concerned after the first twenty minutes, by Which time the Champions will have established a supremacy which they will not relinquish.

The Royal Welch fusiliers-Sokol game will not provide us with first class football, and that which is evi dent will come from the Fusiliers, whose strength, I understand, will be increased' as the result of the "arrival of some of their first team players from Hongkong next week. The soldiers have a powerful forward line, and a sound half-back line which is not likely to give the Rus-riy scoring chances. If the treat the game seriously they should end up with a double figured win, The A.S.F. Reserves, who played listless football last week, will be out to restore their prestige, whilst the Lawmen will try to reverse the defeat of their Seniors. I am inclined to the view that the Police can win this game as the ASF. Reserves will not be able to call upon any of their senior players. I think the Soldiers should gain both points.

Loyals v, S.M.P.

On Sunday the Loyals meet the S.MP. at the Canidrome. Last Season the two games played between these two sides ended in a narrow win for the soldier who like the Police are not playing as well as they did last season.

When in the mood the soldiers can play sound football, but they lack a forward who can score from a distance, and this would appeal also to apply to the Police. I am-inclined to support the Loyals, expecting Lieut. Whiting to fill the pivotal berth. The right wing might be composed of Taylor and Johnson the latter giving a display last Sunday which should merit his inclusion in

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