Glasgow Hawks 8 - 34 Dundee HSFP: Clinical Dundee punish wasteful Hawks

If DUNDEE proved one thing, it is that a bit of a feast can be made from feeding on scraps, writes Martin Laing.

In the opening half hour against Hawks, it was the Glasgow men who dominated possession and territory, but Dundee who managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over and, once they had got on top of their hosts, take control of the game. Indeed, the ease with which the visitors’ breached the home line saw them turn at the break handsomely ahead.

Three tries in that opening 40 minutes, from Richie McIver, Harry Duthie (converted by Cameron Brown) and James Fleming had the visitors coasting, with Hawks managing only a single penalty from Mikey Martin in return.

Hawks’ inability to convert pressure into points damaged their cause, but it was their defensive fragility that cost them dearly as their frailty in their own danger areas was exposed time and again. Almost from the restart Alan Brown bulled over to secure a bonus point for Dundee and maintain their ambitions of a top-three finish and the right to compete in the British and Irish Cup place next season.

Then winger Tom Seabala went in at the corner for a fifth touchdown.

Gavin Strang raised an ironic cheer from the home fans when he finished good work by the Glasgow pack but normal service was soon resumed as Dundee pinned the Anniesland men back into their own half, with Robbie Lavery diving in for Dundee’s sixth try, Brown again adding the extra points and rubbing salt in Hawks’ wounds.