Moray House

Rugby Football Club

Ground: Jack Kane Centre, 208 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh.

Match Reports:

League Game - Inverleith 1st VX v Moray House - 14th October 2006

Games with Inverleith are always tight affairs. Weatherwise the day was perfect for rugby however with grass that would have hidden a small child and a pitch narrower than Ronnie Corbett's shoulders their influence would certainly have some bearing on the match.

House started very brightly. Ross Treacy at Scrum-half making some fine breaks from the base of the scrum, the back row reading the game well, and the backs tackling like demons. From a line out ten yards from the Inverleith line taken well by Ricky, the ball was smuggled back to Banty who scored in the bottom left corner. Lewis converted. Unfortunately this was to be Lewis's last successful kick of the day due to a combimation of wearing his girlfriends's shoes and the jungle-length grass.

House (i.e. Lewis, captain Lewis, he of the squint shoes) missed a couple of very easy penalities under the posts that a two year old would have converted. Inverleith could only respond with a solitary penalty. As the first half progressed their forwards started to rumble up the park, althought often they were guilty of the odd cheap shot which went unseen by the referee and accepted too easily by the House forwards. Our first bit of justifiable rucking saw Ricky spend 10 minutes in the sin-bin. Well done ref.

Chris was again showing up well ripping ball from opposition forwards with captain Lewis kicking well from hand. Half-time 3-5.

The second half started off much the same, their scrum-half (who so very dearly deserved a good shooing) distributing well at the base of the scrum. Graham replaced Andy on the wing and got himself stuck straight into the action.

From a line-out on the clubhouse side, Inverleith played quick ball off the top out to their no. 12 (who should have been their man of the match) whose miss-move allowed the ginger winger to score a fine try in the corner, the scorer of which was wearing a pair of Gala socks - must have found them in the sale bin.

More cheap shots followed including one to Neill Wood's snout. This went unseen by the referee and again without any show of strength by the House forwards. Neill did say after the match however that he'd been perfecting the art of the cheap shot himself on their no. 10 hence the snout incident.

Banana feet missed another couple of easy kicks and with RG shouting 'kick, kick' everytime we had possession (under the misaprehension that we were ahead) the game ended with House snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

A lot to be positive about. Some good continuity although varying the play may have been more fruitful. If the House forwards could develop a harder edge then defeats like this will be turned into victories. Final score 8-7.

PS - the over-40s had a great game and Chris Brett was given man-of-the-match.