Scots 29- View 15.
View came out of the blocks with purpose and intent, Scots came out of bed! Simply put view wanted it more for the first 20 minutes and they were up 15 nil before ayone had blinked, thanks to some great work from the view 14, and then on the other side the view 11 crossed from a quick tap, all of this backed up by a penalty nailed over from close range. Unfortunately for view, the dream start stopped about there as Scots put up the brick wall.
Scots 6 scooted away from the 30 to score a great try after a great ball from the scots half. This was followed right on the stroke of half time by a try to the scots 14 after a great turnover from the scots forwards who worked tirelessly. The Scots backs made every effort to spill the ball dropping everthing.
The Second half was a stop start affair with plenty of drops and knock ons, definately not the spectacle everyone was hoping for.
Scots scored to great long range tries, that both of the scots wingers played a huge part in. Firstly the scots 14 looped around and after huge number of offloads and exchanges the 13 (porter i think) barged over and scored. Almost immediately a dropped ball was toed through by the captain Dunbar who won the race to the ball. From ther View put on a huge fight to score, but Scots bounced them back 2 or three times.
A pretty ordinary game all up, View worked their guts out and in reality probably deserved it more, the definately wanted it more! Scots got lucky, their second get out of jail card played this season. next week will need alot more from the boys in gold, as New wont give them the gaps View did.
Note: The scots fullback was very quiet, didnt look quite right but view maned him up brilliantly, the view centre marked him up all day and did brilliantly to contain him!
View: 3. Centre (13) 2. Flanker (7) 1. Lock (5)
Honourable mention to both view wingers, very good all day.
Scots 3. Flanker (6) 2. Winger (14) 1. Flanker (7)
Honourable mention to the scots half and the lock who went off at half time, was one of the best on ground and was missed in the second half.
To all the old boys out there from Scots, next week will be massive. Time to get patriotic people! BE there in numbers and support the boys in what will be the biggest game of the season for these boys!
Well done to all the boys today!