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6 Wednesday <strong>July</strong> 8 <strong>2020</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
News<br />
Dan the man once again for Southbridge<br />
• From page 1<br />
Carter filled his usual No<br />
10 position as the club which<br />
nurtured him swept away West<br />
Melton 54-14 in the top of the<br />
table Coleman Shield clash.<br />
Though declaring himself a<br />
bit rusty, he was sharper than he<br />
thought, the 38-year-old having<br />
a hand in two tries and playing<br />
the full 80min. He also kicked six<br />
conversions.<br />
But any thoughts West Melton<br />
might be a little gun shy of the<br />
112-test All Black were put to rest<br />
when hooker Jack Walsh nailed<br />
him with a good old fashioned<br />
body-and-all cruncher.<br />
Carter got himself up off the<br />
ground and rejoined the fray.<br />
Water of a duck’s back. Just good<br />
hard, country rugby.<br />
“If anyone saw that game today,<br />
I’d say myself that I’m a bit rusty,”<br />
he told reporters after the match.<br />
“It’s good to make the first step<br />
in to potentially playing again.<br />
I’m not sure if I could play at Super<br />
Rugby level just yet. You leave<br />
those kinds of decisions up to the<br />
coaches.”<br />
Carter will join the Blues later<br />
in the week for the Super Rugby<br />
Aotearoa top of the table clash<br />
with the Blues at Orangetheory<br />
Stadium on Saturday.<br />
“Whether I play or not, I’m<br />
not too worried. I’ll leave that<br />
decision to (coach) Leon (Mac-<br />
Donald) and the selectors up at<br />
the Blues.”<br />
A three-times World Player of<br />
the Year and World Cup winner<br />
in 2011 and 2015, Carter spent his<br />
entire professional career in New<br />
Zealand playing for the Crusaders.<br />
He joined the Blues after stints<br />
in France and Japan, but has not<br />
played since February after Japan’s<br />
Top League was shut down<br />
due to the coronavirus pandemic.<br />
Saturday was also notable for<br />
other milestones.<br />
Carter was made an honorary<br />
life member at his last appearance<br />
for Southbridge in 2014,<br />
and after Saturday’s match he<br />
was presented with his blazer by<br />
his father Neville Carter. He also<br />
turned out for the first time since<br />
a schoolboy with his cousin Will<br />
Carter.<br />
And on another high note,<br />
former Tongan international<br />
Isileli Fine, played his 100th game<br />
for Southbridge. The big lock was<br />
in his usual commanding form.<br />
• Coleman Shield wrap – pages<br />
14, 15<br />
ONE OF THE LADS:<br />
Dan Carter shares a postmatch<br />
beer with Southbridge<br />
teammate Emerson<br />
Sooa’emalelagi. Carter<br />
indulges some fans with a<br />
selfie.<br />
(Right) Isileli Fine walks with his<br />
children as players and fans<br />
celebrate his 100th game for<br />
Southbridge.<br />
PHOTOS: KAREN CASEY/<br />
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