Santa dips into his sack
The club’s Annual Christmas Lunch attracted a full house of over 100 to Inverleith today to enjoy a traditional Christmas lunch and a visit from Santa. A great time was had by all.
Hopefully most will return on Friday 25th January for the Burns Day celebration, 12 noon for 12.30pm – no booking necessary. Just turn up.
Stewart’s Melville RFC 58 Lasswade 7
Doug Randall crosses for Stew Mel’s second try
The 1st XV finished their pre Christmas National League 2 campaign in freezing cold weather and virtual darkness with probably their best performance of the season scoring nine tries with four converted maintaining third place in the league. Two early scores the second by Doug Randall (above) gave Stew Mel an early 12-0 lead which was pulled to 12-7 after a Lasswade interception. Three more tries with two being converted took the half-time lead to 31-7 but with the prospect of playing against the whipping wind in the second half. Despite facing the wind Stew Mel continued their adventurous brand of possession rugby adding five more tries and a further conversion to make the final score 58-7 – a great way to finish the first part of the season. With the other matches in the league being cancelled StewMel closed the gap to second placed Highland to seven points though with a game more played.
Good too to see sixty guests attending the pre match lunch two weeks on from 120 attending the lunch before the Biggar match.
The season resumes on Saturday 12th January with a match v Preston Lodge away. PL are doing a pre match lunch at Pennypit Park and anyone wanting to attend it should contact Bill McNie. If there is sufficient take up the club will provide transport.
Glasgow Academicals 8 Stewart’s Melville RFC 13
The 1st XV travelled to Glasgow to take on an Accies side who we had previously recorded a win against at Inverleith. The weather conditions were rather different on this occasion and not conducive to a handling game. Stew Mel opened the scoring with penalty and built on this lead with two unconverted tries by Freddie Roddick and Craig Davidson before half-time, 13-0. The second half was a struggle to hold on as Accies clawed their way back into the game with a penalty and a try, 13-8 and that was how it remained to the final whistle. The win and the four points keep us in third place in the league on 48 points but two wins behind second placed Highland (60) and leaders Biggar (64), all from 14 matches. The action returns to Inverleith on Saturday with a home match v Lasswade, 2 pm. After that we have a Christmas break from league play until 12th January.