Mike Hunter's EMTV+ Match of the Week: Monarchs v Bandits

NEWS Monday 12th April 2021, 4:00pm

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Club Historian Mike Hunter has studied the excellent action currently showing on EMTV+ to present his suggested viewing for this week. Mike's EMTV+ Match of the Week is the 1987 visit of Berwick - find out why!

For the benefit of our EMTV+ subscribers who have access to our historical footage, I will be selecting a Match of the Week from those available at the time – one which hopefully you will agree offers good racing and drama as so many of our matches have over a very long period...and of course not giving away any spoilers!

For the first Match of the Week I am heading to the oldest of the seasons currently available, which is 1987, and selecting 28th August 1987, the visit to Powderhall in the National League of Berwick. We actually showed this match in our first ever Video Night!

Berwick were probably our biggest local rivals in the late eighties and early nineties, but we had in 1986 shocked the Bandits by beating them home and away! This did not please Davie Fairbairn and his team and they arrived at Powderhall thirsting for revenge.

The Bandits had a solid team headed by Steve McDermott and Charlie McKinna lining up against our stars Les Collins and Brett Saunders. Plenty of other familiar names are on show – Scott Lamb, Phil Jeffrey, Rob Grant, Dave Trownson – though Doug Wyer was out injured. Both teams were totally committed and served up a terrific fixture. There's also an interesting interview with Captain Brett Saunders prior to the match.

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