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.