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Article: Townsend injury rubs salt in the wound for Borders
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 12, 2005
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Borders 15 Llanelli 24
THE Borders Reivers displayed all their traditional traits of
raiding at Netherdale yesterday, but they came away with nothing but
two major injury worries due to a distinct failure to finish what
they had started.
The loss of Gregor Townsend after just 11 minutes had a major
bearing on the game as, up to that point, the Borders had looked a
composed, enterprising outfit. Townsend was kicking the hosts well
into enemy territory and the momentum built up to a good try, created
by the former Scotland fly-half and finished by Kelly Brown, one of
the new generation of Scottish talent.
Townsend, revelling in the role of experienced old head, had
kicked a penalty to touch ...