Sport
A performance to cheer about
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- Published on Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:27
- Written by Super User
After massive disapointment last Saturday against Strathendrick, the Grizzlies felt that they had much to prove this Saturday against their Lanarkshire opponents Strathaven.
In extremely windy and difficult conditions we kicked off into the wind where we realised that we were in for a good tussle against a lively Strathaven side.
The dead lock was broken after 20 minutes after a sweet passage of play through the Helensburgh backs with Ali Rogers finishing a well worked try converted by Ty Sterry.
Strathaven came back strong after the restart earning them a penalty which was converted pleasing the home crowd. Helensburgh struggled through the strong head wind but again a run from the ever strong Burgh centre David Riding broke through, passing to his outside man Ali Cairns to go over for another converted try.
Strathaven came back and their tricky number 10 kept Helensburgh retreating cleverly using the strong winds with some precision kicking and for the next 10 minutes Helensburgh were having to defend strong to keep them from there line but in the 38th minute Strathaven crossed over for another 5 points bringing the half time store to 8 – 14 in Burgh's favour.
Coach Bill Macdonald's half time talk along with Helensburgh's passionate captain Chris Black made a different team come out at half time and 2 minutes into the second half Helensburgh's Hooker Sean Mcnee burst over Strathaven's try line for his first try of the game.
This gave Helensburgh the passion that we have all seen before and the flood gates opened and with some tactical changes from coach Macdonald Helensburgh took control of the game. Trys from an impressive Callum Miller, Ollie Curtis and a brace for Sean Mcnee saw Burgh take the score to 8 – 41 with full back David Sterry's kicking duties as solid as ever.
Strathaven got a consilation try with 5 minutes to go before player coach Ty Sterry suffered a bad neck injury and the game was ended to let an Ambulance onto the pitch. Luckily Ty was given the all clear after x rays showed muscle and tissue damage and was back home that evening.
This was a performance that gave the fantastic away support something very loud to cheer about and all the team would like to thank those who always come to the away games to support our local team.
On Saturday(29th) it will be a different Burgh side facing Strathendrick in the bowl and we urge as many people as possible to come and cheer the lads on.
