Weekend Results
We arrived at Raeburn Place 10.45am Saturday morning to find the game at Jed-Forest had been postponed - Jed had inspected the pitch and found it unfit to play on, and that it would not be fit by 2pm. Disappointing for the Accies team and supporters, though it was noticed that Selkirk, Melrose, Hawick, Kelso and Duns all played at home.
That leaves Accies without any league game since mid November - hopefully a first game next week in the Edinburgh Cup, away at Haddington before moving on to play Hawick away the following week.
Although disappointed, the Accie supporters who didn't go to Jed - and some did go because a few e-mails arrived later, one saying not even the bar was open there, though they were playing soccer on a adjoining pitch - were rewarded with two good games at Raeburn Place.
The 2XV took on Dundee 2nds and in the end deservedly won 60-14. Dundee had brought a good side with them, but Accies were just all round better, especially in the forwards where they outgunned the heavier Dundee front five and in the lose the Accies back five were rampant. Accies scored 10 tries - one each from Hamish Watson and Chris Dickie, a birthday-brace by James Taggart, and a hat-trick each for Andy Findlator and Euan Bonner. Bonner's three tries were scored in a short time as he didn't come on as a replacement till the last third of the match. Dundee's tries came from the last play of the first half and the first play of the second half.
For Accies joint Man of the Match were Finlater and Bonner. It was good to see Duncan MacLeod back on the park for his first game since early October when he injured his neck - he played the full game.
There are a few pictures in the Gallery.
The other game at Raeburn Place was the Whites vs Linlithgow 2nds. the Whites lost their only game of the season to Linlithgow over there in September - though Troy tells me Accies only had 12 and a half men for the game, and he was the half.
There was going to be no mistake again, with Troy having a squad of 22, no half this time, and digging deep in his Black iPhone of ex Accies and Scotland greats again.
The final score was 67-3 to Accies, Linlithgow stuck gamely to their task and lost a couple or more through injury. Accies lent them some players to replace the injured, including a dual Scottish International.
The U20s played Wanderers 2nds at Murrayfield on the 4G pitch and in what appears to have been an exciting game lost 20-35, four tries to five.
Posted on Sunday, 15 January 2012 under Match Reports