THE SCOTSMAN REPORTS

Selkirk 20 - 52 Glasgow Hawks:



Published Date: 14 September 2009
By ATHOLL INNES
GLASGOW Hawks coach Peter Wright played down suggestions that his club could win Premiership 1 for the first time since 2005 after their eight-try demolition job on Selkirk.
"We are good enough to be up there challenging, but you need a bit of luck with injuries and the bounce of the ball," he said.

"We have a lot of tough games to come. To be brutally honest, and I do not mean any disrespect in this, we have potentially played two of the weaker teams (Hawks earlier defeated Stewart's-Melville].

"We have taken five points from our two trips to the Borders (Hawks gained a losing bonus point at Melrose] and we are over the moon at that."

After three successive defeats, Selkirk coach Kevin Barrie said: "We cannot make the excuse that it's a learning curve. We are now at an age when we have to mature as players and make the right decisions."

Hawks blasted Selkirk apart to lead 33-3 at the break with tries from Grant Strang (2), Gary Strain, Craig Gossman and Joe Stafford. Selkirk revived in the second half with scores from Scott Hendrie, Martin Murray and Lee Jones but tries by Peter Jericevich (2) and Duncan Weir, who also kicked six conversions, completed the rout.

Scorers: Glasgow Hawks: Tries: Strang (2), Jericevich (2), Strain, Stafford, Gossman, Weir. Cons: Weir (6).

Selkirk. Tries, Hendrie, Murray, Jones; Pen, Cassidy; Con: Cassidy.

Selkirk: F Harkness; S Hendrie, D Cassidy, R Nixon, L Jones; G Craig, M McVie; G Patterson, S Forrest, R Taylor, R Aglen, A Renwick, C Marshall, D Gray, S Tomlinson.

Glasgow Hawks: C Gossman; R Hair, I Noble, G McDonald, I Boyer; D Weir, P Jericevich; J Stafford, E Milligan, G Strain, M Whittleston, R McKay, C Kerr, G Harkness, G Strang.

Referee: C Rudkin.

This article was posted on 14-Sep-2009, 07:23 by Hugh Barrow.