Musselburgh scrape through a scrappy encounter
Haddington RFC v Musselburgh RFC
The late autumnal cup tournament continued apace as Burgh made the short trip to face County rivals Haddington for what proved as always to be a spicy derby match.
Musselburgh for the second consecutive week, rang the changes in personnel as Ritchie returned at scrum half, Willie Todd at stand-off for David O’Hagan and Jonathan Hall started at prop in place of Hutchison who was on the bench. The most curious change in the side was the inclusion of Gus Milton at flanker showing his versatility as he is normally deployed at centre.
Haddington kicked off and Nick Bell soon set his pack in motion with Davis, Berber and Cockburn to the fore in the early exchanges. The home side, with the prevailing wind attacked and only fine tackling by Fleming, Berthonnaud and Andrew Cook, as always managed to repel them.
Burgh, having made what could be described as a slow start, suddenly stung Haddington in the most clinical fashion, a great entirely typical, barrelling run by Lance Gahan bursting the home defence, before releasing James Murray for the first try of the match, which was unconverted for 0-5.
Full report in this week’s News. On sale now.
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Musselburgh
Thursday 23 May 2013
Today
Light showers
Temperature: 5 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 23 mph
Wind direction: North west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 4 C to 13 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: North east
