Kinross R.F.C.

The game started off on the wrong foot for the Kinross boys as Mackie made the early breakthrough after 3 minutes. The Kinross backs were caught offside and Mackie slotted over the penalty for a 0-3 lead.

Two penalties in 3minutes for Mackie being offside in the back line saw Kinross take a 6-3 lead after 15minutes but immediately from the restart Kinross were penalised when Bull pulled Mackie scrum-half into a ruck - Mackie struck the resulting penalty to bring the game level after 17minutes.

Kinross continued to dominate the next 25 minutes of the game - with Lee Stobie running in a converted try through some gaps in the Mackie defence. Kinross failed to turn their territorial supremacy into points and could only add a further penalty just on the stroke of half time as Mackie were caught offside at a defensive ruck.
As the half-time whistle blew the travelling support and coach were thankful to reach the break with only a 16-6 deficit.

After the halftime break Mackie came back all guns blazing, with a converted try after 45 minutes (16-13).

As Mackie pushed for a try Kinross gave away a silly penalty. Mackie decided to take the points on offer from an easy penalty to draw level, (16-16).

Good rucking from Kinross produced clean ball for the backs which resulted Kinross working an overlap for Dale Lamont to go in for an unconverted try. (21-16)

In total contrast to the first half, this reverse seemed to buoy the Mackie team and another period of pressure resulted in a converted Mackie try giving Mackie the lead, something that no-one who witnessed the first half could have envisaged (21-23).
Kinross creeped back into the game as kicks into the Mackie 22 maintained the pressure on the Mackie back three. Their decision to try running back resulted in gained yards for Kinross, and possession.

As the Mackie team's backchat and bickering with themselves and the referee finally reached fever pitch, two converted tries from Kinross in the last 10 minutes saw the game slipping away from Mackie.

Firstly, after 70mins Jamie Leishman took advantage of a dead leg to his opposite number to waltz round the outside to score under the posts as several of the Mackie team got involved in an unsightly off the ball brawl with Spenny and Geed on the opposite touchline. (28-23)

Mackie created an overlap, running turnover ball from their own 22 but Colin Tees, seeing he was outnumbered, decided to target the ball and intercepted the pass which he ran in under the posts. (35-23)

Slack defending and missed first time tackles allowed Mackie through for a late converted try in the dying minutes of the game – gifting them with the loss bonus point. (35 – 30)

Team: R Allan, G Queen, I Harley, A Barnett, D Lamont, S Mullan, I Spence, D Farmer, C Carragher, A Fraser, L Stobie, C Tees, T Coll, Leishman, F Ross