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Stew Mel vs Selkirk,
4/10/03
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Squad
The Stewart's Melville FP RFC team to play Selkirk at Inverleith
on Saturday, kick off 3 pm, is:
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Sam Hendry
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14
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Tyronne Anderson
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13
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Chris Bissett (captain)
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12
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Struan Samson
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11
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Mike Elliott
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10
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Nick Wood
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9
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Euan Clark
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1
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Paul Wharakura
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Alex Edmonstone
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3
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Simon Capaldi
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Derek Freemantle
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Stephen Dalgleish
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Sandy Storrar
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Paul Sullivan
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Stuart Clark |
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Stephan De Beer |
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Peter McLean |
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Jon Barr |
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Graham Shiel |
We make five changes to the starting line up this week,
with Tyronne, Struan, Alex, Simon and Stuart Clark all coming
into the team at the expense of Richard Borthwick, Graham
Shiel, Stephan De Beer, Malcolm MacColl and Paul Keith.
Shiely will be unavailable over the next couple of weeks
due to the World Rugby
Classic tournament in Bermuda, so Struan comes in for
his first start of the season.
John and Sue Campbell will be selling the stylish new range
of club merchandise from their stall before and after Saturday's
game, so please remember to bring your cheque book with
you. Start your Christmas shopping early, for once!
Riggers'
Review
A much improved performance saw our third
5 point win of the season. I think everyone was happier
this week than last, but, then again, it wasn't going to
take much for there to be an improvement. An old Selkirk
worthy told me after the game that we weren't very good,
just better than Selkirk, and that we shouldn't get carried
away with the win. I guess time will tell if we are back
on the right track, and going to Dundee High on Saturday
will give a good indication of where we stand.
The forwards fronted up for the battle this
week, and, for the first 20 minutes or so of the second
half, some of their driving play was superb. We maybe overdid
it on occasion, with the final man getting isolated, but
it was a massive improvement on previous weeks' efforts.
Decision making and communication are the two key elements
of that part of our game, and that is something that will
be worked on this week.
The backs continue to look dangerous. 17 of
our 22 tries have come from the men behind the scrum this
season, and, with Struan crossing the line twice for his
first 1st XV tries since 13th October 2001, we must be moving
in the right direction. The next challenge will be to get
our Captain over the try line. That drought goes back even
longer, but I'm sure, with the way he's playing and leading
the side at the moment, it won't be too long before he is
crossing for a 5 pointer. No pressure, Chris!
I reckon we probably played well for 65 minutes
of the game on Saturday, which was enough to secure the
points, but these quiet spells are still causing concern.
We will need to perform for the whole duration up at Mayfield
on Saturday, and the defence, whilst considerably better
than it has been, will need to improve once again.
We will go to Mayfield in a positive frame
of mind. We can only hope for a more accomplished performance
than we produced on our visit up there last season. On that
day we lost to a team playing with 14 men for an hour of
the game. That is the sort of determination that Dundee
have. It is a massive challenge to play against a team playing
so well, but, hopefully, we can raise our own performance
to another level.
Riggers
Stew
Mel Stats
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| Score |
Won 33-10 |
| Sequence |
3-0,
3-5, 8-5,
10-5, 13-5,
16-5 (half time),
21-5, 23-5,
23-10, 28-10,
33-10 |
| Tries |
Struan Samson (21 & 62 mins),
Stuart Clark (48 mins), Mike Elliott (65 mins) |
| Conversions |
Sam Hendry (1st two tries) |
| Penalties |
Sam Hendry 3 (8, 28 & 30 mins) |
| Cards |
None |
| Referee |
Benzo's old mate Gary Duncan of Ellon,
who evidently never received the edition of 'Be a Rugby
Ref' magazine that dealt with the Advantage rule |
| Single Sentence Summary |
A much better team performance against
a lively Selkirk side - to score three tries playing
into a strong wind in the second half shows how well
things are going offensively, while our defence was
much tighter throughout the 80 |
| Leading Lion |
Paul Wharakura
gets the nod - he really got about the pitch today,
punched a lot of holes in the Selkirk defence for our
Backs to exploit, and was unlucky not to get on the
scoresheet himself after a great break in the first
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| Bevvy Bulletin |
Nowt - what with the players' wives, thirsty
Souters drowning their sorrows, a bevvy of reunited
'Daniels' from the 1950s and three teams at home,
the bar at Invers was heaving. So I was leaving. |
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