Steve Adamson Trophy
Tuesday 10th July 2018
Kick Off 19.30. On Time !
Scarborough & District League XI 0 Scarborough Athletic 6, attendance 187
6’ 0-1
15’ 0-2
31’ 0-3
43’ 0-4
57’ 0-5
84’ 0-6
@ Scarborough R.U.F.C.
Silver Royd
Scalby Road
Scalby
Scarborough
YO13 ONL
£6 Admission
£2 Programme, 16 pages.
This match is an annual curtain raiser, where the Scarborough & District League Representative Team entertain Scarborough Athletic, with the game staged at the impressive home of Scarborough Rugby Union Club. Pickering Town and Bridlington Town will also face the League Rep side here during the next nine days.
Scarborough Athletic were far stronger, which was no great surprise, as they have just been promoted into the Northern Premier League, Premier Division and they fielded their strongest team tonight.
The crowd must have been disappointing for the organisers though, as the same fixture last season pulled in 422 spectators, more than double the 187 present tonight. That game was played on a Saturday, which probably helped, but there the alternative attraction tonight of the France v Belgium World Cup Semi Final being shown live on television, which would have also kept a few away.
Even with a pretty much traffic free journey, it was still a 5 hour drive each way, but definitely worth it to pick up a ground that only hosts football for these early pre season matches.
