West of Scotland 2A v Cumnock 2nds

On a perfect day for rugby the 2A's continued with their league programme with a home match against Cumnock. West dominated the play but early on turned the ball over at ruck time or knocked on which resulted in little progress. However as the team settled and started putting some phases of play together scoring opportunities arose.
Taylor Deans was first on the board with good inter linking play and was on hand to receive an inside pass to score. Calum McDonald was next to score from a set move from a scrum where there was good running and passing and having been involved in the move received a return pass to score which was converted by Mark Davis. West were now winning good phase ball and linking well.
Ross McLean was next to score when he was on the end of more good inter play and ran strong at the home defence to score between the posts and was converted by Davis. There were three further ties in the first half all individual efforts with strong running and quick feet by Davis, Deans and Dominic McKay which were all converted by Davis.
Half Time west 40 Cumnock 0.
The second half started out as a real scrappy affair with little continuity and for 15 minutes the play just went from set play to set play with many errors in both handling and use of possession. However, thereafter West scored a further 4 tries in the half.
The first was by Deans when again some impressive speed and footwork took him away from the defence to score a good try which was converted by Andrew Stott. Scott Jamieson was next when after some good play up front the ball was quickly fed along the back line where he took on his winger grubbered through collecting the ball and scoring in the right hand corner. Deans scored again, his forth of the match, when after a lung busting run from Davis he was held up close to the line but had the presence of mind to off load to the supporting Deans with Davis then converting.
Neil Copeland scored the last West try by being in support of the winger Jamieson and galloped in from 15 metres and was converted by Stott. Cumnock had the last say in the match when after a line out and some scrappy play dotted down on the line but went unconverted. There was little time thereafter and with the final whistle sounding West ran out winners 66 points to 5.
This was another good team performance with some excellent individual displays. However, this was a predominately young Cumnock side that showed much promise for the future of their club. This is also the case for West and I would expect some of these guys looking to force their way into the 2nd team and maybe further with some hard work and dedication.