Montrose 2nd's 5 – 94 Stobswell

We had to lend Montrose 2 players for this game and, in what proved to be a very one-sided affair, our backs used this match to put their moves into practice against live opposition. However there was no real continuity of play between forwards and backs in the game as most of the tries came from run-ins from halfway, once the gain-line had been broken, or from individuals going on their own.

Unusually for Montrose, there was little or no wind and, in conditions more suited to playing golf, it was a very open game with both sides wanting to run the ball at every opportunity. Our backs did most of the scoring in this game with Jim Walker and Chris Blackburn scoring most of the tries. Only loosehead prop Steve ??????? managed to get on the scoreboard for the forwards.

Montrose got on the scoreboard towards the end of the first-half when their No.8 drove over from a tap penalty, and they deserve great credit in that they never gave up trying and had a spell in the second-half when their forwards had a few good pick and drives but just ran out of numbers at the vital moment.

Big Malky did get over the line from a 5-metre lineout but unfortunately he followed in the steps of French centre Christophe Dominici and dropped the ball. The only difference being, (other than pace, style, fitness, and physique) was that it was the belly that knocked the ball out his hands rather than the knee. Malky did claim that he would have scored had he known that he was over the line when he caught the ball. Time for a diet me thinks. (and not a “see” food one either ‘ cos he’s already on that).

Malcolm was, however, a winner in more ways than one on Saturday. He was victorious on the park, he defeated the opposition in downing his pint in one and, at night at the Pannie dinner in the Woodlands Hotel, he “won” the Jimmy the Pig trophy for “Worst-dressed Rugby Player.”

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