Edinburgh U17 Development XV          15
Glasgow U17 Development XV              3

Edinburgh rounded off the Under 17 development programme with another hard fought encounter against a physical and committed Glasgow team. Edinburgh and Glasgow went into the 2nd round of game after winning against Borders and Caledonia respectively in week one, so a competitive game was expected, and that’s what the crowd got on the cold night at Stirling.

After two early misses Fraser Gillies put Edinburgh ahead with his third attempt before Jack Ferguson crossed for the first try after a nice interchange with his centre partner Michael Crawley. Ferguson made the initial half break before offloading to Crawley who drew the last defender to put Ferguson in next to the posts. Gillies converted to make it 10 – 0.

The second half was evenly contest with Glasgow applying the pressure thorough a Patrick Bell penalty goal and a series of runs from scrum half Murray McConnell, Craig Greer and Fraser Watt. Edinburgh held on thanks to the strong loose forward trio of Matthew Walker, Malcolm Peacock and Ben Johnstone who were quick to snuff out any meaningful attack as they worked tirelessly at the breakdown.

Peacock rounded of the scoring late on, with a well executed catch and drive after Edinburgh decided to kick for touch at the corner following a Glasgow infringement. Peacock emerged from the bottom of the maul and though the conversion went wide the final whistle came shortly after to signal the end of a successful campaign.
 
I would like to thank all of the players for their commitment, effort and application during the programme, also the coaching team of Roddy Deans, Jimmy Moran, Jamie Parker and John Houston, who did a fantastic job preparing this group of players for the two development games. Thanks also to Carly Mak the physio, Iain Brown the Manager and James Rennie the Video man.
 
Lastly, I wish the players who move onto the National U17 Programme all of the best and look forward to seeing all of the players back next year for the Edinburgh Under 18 Programme.
 
Ben Fisher
Performance Development Manager

Edinburgh Team
15. Guy Skivington-Jones (Merchiston Castle School) 14. Angus Normand (Edinburgh Academy)
13. Michael Crawley (Stewart’s Melville College) 12. Jack Ferguson (George Watson’s College)
11. Ross Peacock (Boroughmuir) 10. Fraser Gillies (Edinburgh Academy) 9. James Munro (Edinburgh Academy)                   1. Roddy Campbell (Edinburgh Academy) 2. George Turner (Stewart’s Melville College) 3. Andrew Philp (Currie) 4. William Kay (Boroughmuir) 5. Daryll Morrow (Merchiston Castle School) 6. Matthew Walker (Boroughmuir) 7. Ben Johnstone (Stewart’s Melville College) & 8. Malcolm Peacock (George Watson’s College)
Replacements
16. Fergus Scott (Currie) 17. Denis Pech (Currie) 18. Chris Scott (George Watson’s College)
19. Michael Moyes (Boroughmuir) 20. Jonathan Byrne-Leitch (Merchiston Castle School)
21. Joe Stachan (Currie) & 22. Rory Scott (Boroughmuir)