Blue's record opening day victory 7-3-09

MYS Blue Stripes 6 -v- 1 Tranent Juniors

Good to get the new block of fixtures off to a winning start and, although the boys were a bit rusty and took a while to get going, it was a comfortable enough win in the end.

We were missing 3 players and had to draft Lloyd in as a late replacement and this also resulted in us playing people out of their preferred positions with Arran Currie, Blair and Lloyd all putting a shift in at defence beside Dylan. This, and the fact that this was the boys' first game playing the new "retreating line" rule seemed to affect us at the start of the match and we were a bit out of sorts. As the game wore on however we got to grips with things and took the lead after about 10 minutes. The remainder of the game was relatively comfortable with the goals coming from Arran, Euan and Paul courtesy of some good assists from Matthew on the left wing.

Thanks to Lloyd for helping us out at short notice.