2s march at top continues - great stuff!

This match was prefaced by a minute's silence for Marianne Strokosch, one of the club's women players in the mid 1990's who sadly lost her battle with cancer last week. Marianne, sister of Scotland star, Alasdair, is a sad loss and the club's thoughts are with the Strokosch family. Funeral details are elsewhere on this website.

The 2nd XV continued their excellent season with a comprehensive victory over Ardrossan Academicals. Ardrossan, after struggling to get a team together at the start of the season, had won their last four matches and apparently were upset to lose yesterday.

This may, in part be due to the fact that they realised that one of EK's secret weapons was their fifty year old President, Peter Hagerty, who made a 60 minute cameo (he later said it felt like a week). Manager Bruce Beggans noted PH made one try saving tackle - it seems he fell over with exhaustion, and in waving his arms around, somehow executed the perfect tap tackle! Just don't ask him to describe it at the bar.

President Hagerty himself, taking to text last night - aspirations to emulate some other President, oh dear....... - said, and I quote "I was amazing, except when I knocked on from a perfectly good pass in my own 22. Oops". More uncharitable observers felt that he realised there was no way he could reach the EK 22 line, let alone run any further, so he dropped it deliberately. Should we believe this.....?

EK scored six tries, and led comfortably 20-5 at half time. Manager Beggans said Graeme - Grubby - Blackwood was Man of the Match, making a number of breaks (we even have photographic evidence, thanks to Aileen Campbell - lots of Grubby pics: aargh!) and covering the pitch well in his usual manner. That's two MoM awards in two matches. Grub - maturity comes late: (still hope for me?) - don;t give up yet! Bruce assured me that he did not use PH as the baseline for the assessment criteria.

Try scorers were Dylan Brodie, David Rosie Junior and some old guy called Graeme Blackwood.

A further three tries were score by one other individual but as he has still not paid his rugby club membership fees, the Editor has told me that his name cannot be mentioned on this website, nor his achievements reflected in the record books, until he does. The Editor also suggested he should not be selected for the 2s again until he has coughed up. Time to apply some standards?????

Late news - Craig Ferguson finally paid his membership on 28 Jan so we are now happy to acknowledge his hat trick, as noted above. Dare we ask if he bought the resultant bottle of vodka that such a feat demands?

Patrick (Kicker) Quigg had to retire early due to a dodgy ankle, otherwise EK would surely have claimed a few extra points in conversion. But this would only have upset the Ardrossan No 10 even more - it was reported he was so unhappy that he took himself off in the huff during the match.

There are 90 pictures from the match on the website, including our President AND Vice President in motion. The perfect storm....Brexit, Trump and Grub as MoM.