Blair Go Down to Glenrothes

Saturday 21 Feb 09, the Blairgowrie senior squad returned to league duty after a 3 week spell without a game with a home match against high flying Glenrothes who are currently second in Caledonia League Division 1.
Blairgowrie started off strongly but it was the visitors who went into an early lead with a breakaway try in the corner. Unfortunately for Blairgowrie lock forward Peter Duncan was sin binned for 10 minutes as he was adjudged to have tackled too high in his last ditch attempt to prevent Glenrothes scoring. Despite this early setback Blairgowrie had long periods of pressure but as has been the case for much of this season they just could not find that cutting edge to convert pressure into points with only a converted penalty by Stephen Souter to show for their efforts in the first half. Conversely Glenrothes appeared to be able to score every time they went up the park adding a further 3 tries before the interval to make the half time score Blairgowrie 3 Glenrothes 24.

The second half proved to be a rather scrappy affair with a combination of mistakes and missed opportunities with Glenrothes adding another 3 tries to make the final score Blairgowrie 3 Glenrothes 45.

Team; Andy Barrett, John Jenkins, Jake Cockburn, Ewan Morrison, Peter Duncan, Neil MacRae, Ryan Walker, Kev Brown, Gavin Wynd, Duncan Campbell, Sean Malone, Ally Walker, Michael Black, Stevie Stewart, Stephen Souter, Michael Grant, Euan Constable, Robert Larsen.
After the match captain Ewan Morrison thanked the Glenrothes squad and the referee and Lisa and Dawn for providing the after match food.

Man of the Match points were awarded to debutant Andy Barrett -1 point, Ryan Walker - 2 points and Michael Black  - 3 points and Man of the Match.

This Saturday Blairgowrie are at home to St Andrews University who are currently third in the league but with games in hand are still challenging for the title. Kick off will be at 1.00 pm with players, members and guests invited to the clubhouse after the match to watch the Six Nations matches on the big screen.