* BRIAN Bell, Highland's 37-year-old lock forward, is to begin his
fourteenth season of district rugby playing for North and Midlands
against South at Jedburgh on Saturday, writes Bill McMurtrie. It will be
his forty-ninth district game, two short of Chris Snape's North and
Midlands record.
His first district match was against the Anglo-Scots in September,
1982, while he was with Howe of Fife. In his subsequent career he
captained North and Midlands 17 times, including the Dundee match
against the 1988 Australians.
Simon Burns, the current captain, leads a team containing four caps --
Andy Nicol, Rob Wainwright, Dave McIvor, and Martin Scott -- and only
one newcomer, Graham Stirling, the Stewart's Melville wing. Team:
S A D Burns (Edinburgh Academicals), captain; G Stirling (Stewart's
Melville FP), P R Rouse (Dundee HS FP), R J S Shepherd, J F Swanson
(both Edinburgh Academicals); B R Easson (Boroughmuir), A D Nicol; J J
Manson (both Dundee HS FP), M W Scott (Edinburgh Academicals), D
Herrington (Dundee HS FP), B H Bell (Highland), S J Campbell (Dundee HS
FP), D J McIvor, R I Wainwright, D H Mitchell (all Edinburgh
Academicals). Replacements -- P W B Flockhart (Stewart's Melvillr FP), A
Imrie (Stirling County), W D Anderson (Kirkcaldy), J G Mathieson
(Watsonians).
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