It will be another chance for the champions of yesteryear to roll back the clock as the curtain raiser game at Cooks Gardens will be Wanganui Past Players against their King Country counterparts on Saturday afternoon.
The 'Golden Oldies' style match was first played in Te Kuiti last year, and although officially these matches will be always recorded as a drawn result, Wanganui spent their side of it scoring 46 points in 60 minutes in 2018, compared to five in reply.
Invitational selection starts from a loose criteria of being over 30 years of age and having played a blazer (15) game for Wanganui, although there are plenty of exceptions.
Captained by 121 first class game-capped legend Peter Rowe, there are eight players in the Wanganui squad who have made over 50 provincial appearances in Rowe, Ace Malo, Jon Smyth, Fraser Hammond, Matt Gilbert, Simon Dibben, Steelie Koro and Cameron Crowley.
Even current WRFU chairman Jeff Phillips is down on the current list as one of the players to suit up, which would put him at the older age of the spectrum with three other squad members to have previously celebrated a 40th birthday.
