Broughton Men will travel to Oban Lorne to take on the West Regional Bowl champions in the National Bowl semi-final, writes Mark Brown.
The Regional Bowl winners were pulled out the Murrayfield hat at lunchtime today (Monday 04/03). In the other semi-final, Grangemouth Stags welcome Kinloss Eagles.Oban Lorne, who we last played in a pre-season friendly in 2006 at Glencruitten, sit 2nd top of the West League Division 3 and defeated current table toppers Loch Lomond by the narrowest of margins in the West Bowl Final, a 21-22 win.
Whilst we get to travel to exotic places such as Penicuik and St Boswells, our opponents have lovely scenic trips across the water to Isle of Arran and Isle of Mull. We’ll leave you, dear reader, to decide who gets the better deal…. A quick glance of our opponents website and it’s big No.8 Corrie Louw and Outside Centre Cammy Smith who stand out, having contributed to almost half of the team’s tries between them so far this season, with Craig Wright showing himself to have a trusty boot on him too.
Broughton remain undefeated in 2013 and Head Coach Rhys Williams has shown what his squad can do when allowed to play regular rugby after a winter which broke up any momentum and saw the team play just one game a month in November, December and January!
However, it’s 80 minutes on the day that will decide who will progress to every rugby players dream – to play on the hallowed turf at the National Stadium at Murrayfield.