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Montrose Magpies - 280* vs Wigtown Wanderers - 0

	Wanderers	Magpies
Keeper	Rostell	Wintringham
Chasers	Drummond	Keitch (C)
	Shimpling	MacLean
	MacKenzie	MacTavish
Beaters	A.Parkin (C)	Moriattis
	Starky	MacGregor
Seeker	B.Parkin	Abberley

One has to feel sorry for the Wigtown Wanderers. For centuries they have been the League’s most Galleon-strapped team. 2011 was a surprising success with sixth on the ladder. But their early draw for 2012 could not have been more unfriendly, with two matches against last year’s Grand Finalists separated by a momentum breaking bye.

The Magpies showed in toppling the champions that they have every chance of glory this season and would have hoped to get out of this match in as little time as possible and by as dominant a margin as possible.

The Tornados comfortably took care of Wigtown in Round 1, before being taught a lesson by Montrose in Round 2. This (admittedly unsound) sporting logic alone suggested that the Magpies should have little trouble this Monday night.

And so it proved.

Even with Beater Zachariah Ollerton ruled out immediately before the game suffering the ill-effects of a pub cursing, the Magpies were devastating. Many fans were still taking the seats when the Magpies lead reached 100, within an astonishingly hypersonic fourteen minutes. Fingal MacTavish was the main destroyer, netting his first hat-trick of goals within a frenzied two minute period.

The Wanderers were being outclassed to such a dizzying level that the Chudley Cannons would have been proud. But Wigtown at least were denied the kind of prolonged slow death that Cannons fans so often have to endure, with the match ending in a season-low nineteen minutes.

Fans had every cause to feel aggrieved at a mere twenty-minute contest at the best of times. But the loss was even more acute today as Alison Abberley's increasingly inevitable spectacular grab from nowhere interrupted such an entertainingly expert display of Chaser dexterity. But few Magpie fans seemed to mind, as their team’s dominance had rendered the Wanderers scoreless, the first time a team has failed to get on the board all season.

If the League as a whole weren’t eyeing the Montrose Magpies with extreme wariness after last week, they should be now.

MONTROSE MAGPIES - 280: MacTavish 10, MacLean 2, Keitch 1, Abberley Snatch

WIGTOWN WANDERERS - 0

PLAYER OF THE MATCH: FINGAL MACTAVISH (MAGPIES)