Gordonians RFC

On to National 2 then we go, and here's the results from last Saturday.

Well, there were three games off, so it was only Howe 5-22, Gordonians 19 and Stumel 25, Kirkcaldy 17, which means Highland 35, Newton Stewart 27, Falkirk 27, Peebles 23, Stumel 22, Gordonians 21.

Howefife 15, Kirkcaldy 15, Dundee 10 and Preston Lodge 8.

Shaping up to be a good league this one.

Howefife and Stumel both doing themselves favours with wins in those games.

Possibly a surprise that Gordonians lost at Howe.

after their good result the week before in smashing Falkirk.

But the fixture card in National 2 is Dundee v Howarth Fife and Gordonians v Stumel, both 2 o'clock kick-offs.

Here's the results from last Saturday.

Dundee 19, Newton Stewart 50, Gordonians 56, Falkirk 24.

That's a big result.

Kirkcaldy 31, Howe 5 27, Peebles 14, Highland 29 and Preston Lodge 0.

Stumel 52 so the table as it stands Highland a perfect 35 points Newton Stewart 27 they move into second Falkirk also have 27 Peebles 23 Gordonians 20 Stumel 18 Kirkcaldy 15 Dundee 10 Howard Fife 10 and Preston Lodge 8 so Highland go marching on with 7 try bonus victories out of 7 and getting anything at Peebles is a big result for them, and they'll have been absolutely overjoyed as well when they saw the other results coming through as their northern neighbours, Gordonians, raced back to form to put 56 points on challengers Falkirk, and that means there's now an eight-point lead at the top of the table with Newton Stewart moving up to second place.

So, Gordonians, they've come back to life again.

Yeah, well, I mean, from a Falkirk point of view, I spoke to Bill Folds, who's Mr Falkirk Rugby, soon to be Mr President of SRU Rugby, earlier in the season, you know, about something else, but, you know, saying Falkirk are going well, and he, you know, he's obviously delighted.

They'd been quite worried before the start of the season, they'd lost a few players, but, you know, they'd picked up, you know, they'd been quite clever about how they'd recruited, you know, they've worked really hard on their youth section, so they've got players coming through, but he was concerned about the depth.

Here's the table as it stands.

Highland 30, Falkirk 26, Peebles 23, Newton Stewart 22, Gordonians 15, Stumel 13, Dundee 10, Kirkcaldy 10, Preston Lodge 8 and Howe 5-8.

Now, November the 28th will be the day Highland host Falkirk and we're licking our lips for that one.

But as it stands at the moment, Peebles and Newton-Stewart seem to be the only two teams in the reckoning apart from Highland and Falkirk.

That balcony, now that it's open again after their misdemeanours last year, if that starts to get on top of them, although, to be fair, Highlands, their balcony certainly can... can generate quite a bit of noise.

But, you know, if the people's support get behind them and they get a bit of wind behind them and start, you know, scoring tries and scoring points and stopping Highland from scoring, I could honestly see that people's could potentially beat Highland.

The fixture card in full in National 2, Dundee v Newton-Stewart, Gordonians against Falkirk, Kirkcaldy against Howe 5, Peebles play Highland and Preston Lodge versus Stewart's Melville.

So that's just about it for today's Clubhouse.