| After some heavy rain, Saturday 17th Feb saw Hillfoots XV host Kirkcaldy 2’s. This game was the last game before a four week break due to the 6 Nations fixtures, so both teams were looking to put it a shift and leave nothing out on the field. The conditions were cold and the pitch was heavy, and as the match kicked off, the visitors built some momentum and capitalised on some small errors by the hosts. After the first 5 minutes though, Hillfoots found their stride and started to build some attacking phases and began to score some early tries, after some excellent line breaks. The first half ended with Hillfoots scoring 4 tries with no reply from Kirkcaldy.
The second half began with Hillfoots playing in their opponent’s half for long periods and they scored 2 more well worked tries, one of them with an excellent individual break from the Hillfoots fullback who received a clearance kick and broke around the outside of the Kirkcaldy centres and ran over half the field to score. The rest of the game became a little more of a contested game as Kirkcaldy defended well at times and applied some of their own pressure on the home team. The game finished 38-0 to Hillfoots XV. The Hillfoots 2nd XV, the Rams played away at Bannockburn RFC in a close game that finished 16-12. Both teams have a break for a few weeks, the Rams host Aberfeldy on 10th March and Hillfoots 1st XV travel to Morgan RFC on 24th March. |
