SCOTS UNBEATEN IN PREPERATIONS FOR WORLD STAGE
Posted: 20/Dec/05
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Scotland under19 20, Scottish Exiles under-19 3

Scotland under-19 ran in four tries to nil on the back pitches tonight against Scottish Exiles under-19.

Scotland under-19 head coach Peter Wright said: “We started off pretty slow but we eventually got there with the game plan we were trying to execute, to bring some width to our game.

“We scored four good tries which were taken very well. We worked hard to get the tries and we could have scored another four or five,” he added.

The opening points of the night went to the visitors which were to be their only of the night through a Christopher Oswin penalty.

The Scottish attack was varied and exciting with numerous bursts from Stewart’s Melville FP duo David McCall and Richard Vernon.

Scotland broke into the lead in the 29th minute as McCall and Calum Anderson were involved on their opposite wings for Scotland’s first try, Anderson crossing the line for the score.

The points were to stay at 5-3 at half-time.

Only six minutes back on the field, Daniel Levison ran in Scotland’s second after Hawick back-row forward Nick McTaggart offloaded after shrugging off two tackles within the opposition 22.

The third try of the night came from Richard Vernon only for Tom Watson to have the final word of the night scoring a cracking try as a result of the quick reactions of Pat McArthur to take the final score to 20-3.

Scotland under-19 have now completed their preparations with three wins from three ahead of their first international against Italy in Rome on Thursday 29 December (kick-off 2:30pm local time).

Scotland under-19: Scott Hendrie (Selkirk); David McCall (Edinburgh Gunners & Stewart’s Melville FP), Richard Mill (Stirling County), Andrew Easson (Edinburgh Gunners & Stewart’s Melville FP), Calum Anderson (Peebles); Cameron Ferguson (Dundee HSFP), Murray Bringhurst (Watsonians); Alan Dymock (Dundee HSFP), Frazer Wilford (Bryanston School) Ross McCallum (Ardrossan Accies), Ritchie Duncan (Perthshire/Strathallan), Steven Turnbull (Edinburgh Gunners & Stirling County), Daniel Levison (Dundee HSFP), Richard Vernon (Stewart’s Melville FP), Nick McTaggart (Hawick)
Substitutes from: Colin Goudie (Stewart’s Melville FP), Pat McArthur (Ayr), Alex Grove (Rugby School), Matt Bennet (Edinburgh University), Tom Watson (Currie), Stuart McGee (Stirling County), Fraser Young (Marr College), Graham McGilchrist (Watsonians), David Lowrie (Hawick), Graham Fisken (Biggar), Mark Peace (Northumbria University), Danny Thorburn (Haddington), Tom Wright (Watsonians & Northumbria University), Nick Hart (Watsonians), Ally Gibson (Ayr), Polok Islam (Dundee HSFP), Jamie Hunter (Hillhead/Jordanhill), Ross Curle (Hillhead/Jordanhill), Rory Hutton (Hawick)

Scottish Exiles under-19: Philip Baldwin (Leicester University); Michael Gourlay (London Scottish), Jack Cuthbert (Bath), James Fitzpatrick (Westoe), Taylor Bellamy (Rittle College); Christopher Oswin (Harrogate), Sam Brown (Bath); Ashley Young (Dursley), Frazer Gibson (Barnes), Alexander Mackenzie (London Scottish), Andrew Hutchinson (Kelso Harlequins), Callum Forrest (Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School), Richard Gill (Saracens), Sam Morton (University of Wales Institute Cardiff), Frazer McCardell (Hartpury University)
Substitutes from: Stuart Henry (Selkirk Youth), Mark Nelson (Gravesend), Alex McCutcheon (Peterborough), Michael Shears (Hull Ionians), Duncan Pollock (Northern FC), James Ross (Flying Hall School), Jack Birkett (Paviors), Adam Lambert (Crieff)

This article was posted on 20-Dec-2005, 23:18 by Hugh Barrow.