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| Sunday saw the Glasgow University 7s Tournament and more squad rotation. Todd, having recovered from last weeks nail injury, was restored to the team and together with debutants Eggleton, McMillan and McMillan’s pal Ravi formed a squad with considerable potential. Arriving at the Garscube Soap Exclusion Zone, Hill’s discovered they had been drawn in a pool with GU Freshers and amazingly and purely coincidentally, Glasgow Hawks. Patterson, in a move prescient of next season, awarded himself the #10 jersey and lead the boys into opening match against GU Freshers. Todd left the team under no illusions about his intentions, declaring that he was going to “boom some f*cker”. Indeed the team seemed to respect this type of motivation with Muir, Cahoon, Todd, Patterson, Eggleton, McMillan’s pal Ravi and Dewar all scoring in a one sided match. In their second game Hill’s were comprehensively beaten by an 8-man Hawks side for whom the referee was the best player. Wearing glasses with a magnification equal to the Hubble telescope allowed the referee to spot a Hill’s error from 50m but he seemed to be was blinded when it came to Hawks errors. Disallowing both Muir’s try and Dewar’s effort from Cahoon’s “pretty sweet cross field kick” took the wind from Hill’s sails and they never got going. As a result the Hill’s were relegated to the back pitch and the Shield competition where they would face the legendary “Elbow Benders” RFC. Making heavy weather of their lesser skilled but enthusiastic opponents Hill’s won by 5 tries to 2 tries. Eggleton, fuelled by recent bouts of heavy drinking, contributed a brace with further tries from Patterson, Fisken, D and Dewar. And so onto the final where Hill’s faced a team of professional soap dodging book-jockeys from Glasgow Uni. Still struggling to hit peak form Hill’s opened the scoring through Stafford’s sprint from halfway only to concede two quick tries. Cahoon replied for Hill’s finding a “frickin fantastic” angle from inside his 22” and raced to level the scores. Muir darted down the blind side to open the scoring in the second half but the “great unwashed” refused to lie down and scored again to peg Hill’s back. Todd, finding the same “frickin fantastic” angle as used earlier by Cahoon added another try and it was left to Captain Patterson to wrap up the match with a score under the posts late in the game. As befitting a competition organised by students, Hill’s received a crate of liquid “precious” as compensation for their day’s efforts. Glossing over the adequate performances Captain Patterson remarked that Stafford’s try would “at least save him from having to pitch a tent to get a score this weekend”. Squad: Cahoon; Dewar; Eggleton; Fisken, D; McMillan; McMillan’s pal Ravi; Muir; Patterson; Stafford; Todd; Walker. Burger Watch: Bell, perhaps trying to impress his WAG, restricted himself to a single burger, awarding it 3-stars for cooking but remarking that a higher score could have been possible if he had been able to identify the actual food substance. |
