Weekend Sport – Sat/Sun 24/25th February

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Rugby:  No 1st XV rugby this weekend while everyone took in Scotland’s Calcutta Cup victory over England and the pre match lunch at MES.

From the wider Stew Mel perspective the notable achievement of the rugby weekend was the Scotland under 20s 24-17 win over England under 20s on Friday evening.  Wins for Scotland at this level have been as rare as those of the senior XV.   The Scotland team included SMC’s last two 1st XV captains Jamie Hodgson (2015/16) and Ross Thompson (2016/17).  Congratulations to both and hopefully their rugby careers continue to progress although both have university courses as a “distraction”.

Saturday’s 1st XV match is away to bottom of the league Falkirk with a 3pm start.

Hockey:  Hockey made its return from the winter break with two commanding wins – The Ladies 1st team defeated Dundee University 6-0 in NL2 and the Mens 1st team had a 3-0 success over FMGM Monarchs.

Football & Golf: They have been mentioned previously in our weekly reports so it did not go unnoticed that Euan Henderson started for Hearts at Ibrox on Saturday and Grant Forrest qualified for the final two rounds of the senior European Golf Tour’s Qatar Masters.  His rounds of 70,70,74,68 for a 6 under par 282 total earned him further “Road to Dubai” points.

Weekend Sport – Sat 17th February. Rugby

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Rugby:  Stewart’s Melville RFC     19     Dundee High    25

A last minute try (above) earned the 1st XV a bonus point against Dundee at Inverleith on Saturday but with the two teams immediately ahead of us in the league table, Musselburgh and Cartha Queens Park playing each other anything less than a win was likely to harm the team’s prospects of remaining in NL1.   As it happened Cartha won a high scoring game by 35-31 earning the winners 5 league points and Musselburgh two bonus points meaning more lost ground.   With five games left (potentially 25 points available) we are seven points adrift of Musselburgh but with both sides still to play Falkirk who are stranded at the bottom of the league it seems likely that nothing less than three wins and possibly four are required.

It was pleasing that the pre match lunch attracted around forty people to enjoy Joyce’s veggie soup and roast lamb including Alex and David Brewster who we haven’t seen for some time along with Alex’s son, former captain, Scott.   Having Alex and Dave along brought back memories of many front row battles of the past and of the different sort of rugby and the numbers following the club game we got then.

 

Annie of the Antarctic

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We are supporting Annie Waterston in her fundraising to enable her to join Robert Swan and his team CLIMATE FORCE 2018 https://explorerspassage.com/climateforce-robert-swan/ on an expedition to Antarctica to learn about the impact of climate change and how renewable resources can play a huge and extremely important part in protecting our planet now and in the future.

Some of you may know Annie, but most of you will know Annie’s mum, Joyce Waterston. Joyce is a well kent face at Inverleith and provides all the catering in the clubhouse.

Good luck Annie

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Weekend Sport – Sat 10th February. Golf, Rugby and Football

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Golf:   Strong performance by Grant Forrest in Australia

Grant Forrest in action in the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Tournament

Former pupil Grant Forrest’s first tournament of the year took him to the clear blue skies and warmth of Perth, Australia where he participated in the European Tour’s World Super 6s event where the initial field of 156 reduced to 8o after 36 holes strokeplay and to 24 after 54 holes.   The 24 qualifiers then played 6 hole matchplay golf on the fourth and final day.  Grant was in third place one shot behind the lead after 36 holes with a 68 and 67, before a par 72 qualified him in ninth place after 54 holes before going out by 1 hole to Australia’s Matthew Millar in the 1st round of the play-offs despite being one under par for the six holes.   This performance moved Grant up about 100 places in golf’s World rankings where he is now the tenth placed Scot.

Rugby:    Stewart’s Melville RFC    29    Penicuik     13

A strong performance in the early part of the second half  brought three tries and turned a 6-5  half-time deficit into relatively comfortable win at Inverleith on Saturday for the 1sts in the Quarter Final of the BT National League Cup against Peebles from NL2.   A fourth try took us into a 29-6 lead before Peebles reduced the deficit with a late score.   Kelso, Dumfries and Highland were the other quarter-final winners and one of them will stand between the club and a season’s end final at Murrayfield.

Football:  Just to complete the weekend news – 17 year old former pupil Euan Henderson was a late substitute in Hearts 3-0 Scottish Cup win over St Johnstone at Tynecastle.

 

Weekend Sport – Sat 3rd February. Rugby.

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Edinburgh Accies  34   Stewart’s Melville RFC  5

The 1st XV had an early kick-off at Raeburn Place on Saturday against table toppers Edinburgh Accies in a league match postponed from December.    As half-time approached Accies had been held to 12-5 but disappointedly they squeezed in for touchline try just on half-time.   Accies had almost continuous possession from the start of the second half and despite some great defensive work by Stew Mel they crossed for another three tries to take the score to 34-5 before ten minutes of concerted pressure by Stew Mel at the end failed to produce a score.  There was plenty of encouragement for the games to come.   Next Saturday we play Peebles in a cup match  at Inverleith.

Welcome to Lindsey

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The FP Club would like to welcome Lindsey Geddes as the new FP Secretary.

Lindsey can be contacted on:

Email : smcfpclub@esms.org.uk
Mobile : 07717048665