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Fancy a trip to Edmonton, Canada, this April? | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Well, that's the prize in store for the winners of this trophy. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
A place in the World Championships representing Scotland. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Welcome to the Dewars Centre in Perth for highlights of the 2017 | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
It's a battle between veteran David Murdoch and a new kid | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
on the block, Murdoch searching for a seventh title | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
against Bruce Mouat, the 2016 World Junior Champion, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
who was just ten years old when Murdoch won the first | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
With a total of ten teams taking part, the round-robin stages | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
took place over five days, each team playing nine matches | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
to see who progressed to the knockout stages. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
So, this is how the table looked after the round-robin stage. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
The first three teams all with the same record - | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
But Team Murdoch topped the standings by virtue | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
of their head-to-head records with Kyle Smith and Tom Brewster. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
The top four was completed by Bruce Mouat, who beat | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
In the knockout stages, the top two faced off for automatic | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
qualification for the final, with the loser going | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
And it was Team Murdoch who beat Team Smith 4-3. | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
The other semifinalists would be the winner of the page play-off | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
And that was 22-year-old Mouat, who dispatched defending | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
champion Tom Brewster in one of the championship's big upsets. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Team Mouat were fresh off a gold medal in the World University Games | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
in Kazakhstan, and they maintained that form for the semi, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
overturning a two-shot deficit in the final end to snatch | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
a sensational 7-6 victory from a distraught Kyle Smith. | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
So, it's last years' runner-up David Murdoch against Bruce Mouat | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
Now, there's a 16-year age gap between the skips. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Team Mouat won their World Junior Championship in Denmark last year. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Lead was Derrick Sloan, second Gregor Cannon, | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
I think that David's obviously been around for so long and | :02:48. | :03:00. | |
Yeah, I was ten years old, and obviously I'm really excited | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Well, you're watching as a kid growing up so it's amazing to be | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Is it a time for the changing of the guard? | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Murdoch's rink is the same as the team which took silver | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Michael Goodfellow the lead, Scott Andrews second | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
I'm not saying you're a veteran by any means but you've won this | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
so many times representing Scotland across the world and | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
done incredibly well, and this young guy who's coming in, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
and he's hungry and desperate for stuff, right? | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Yeah, we're still hungry, too, you know, and so am I, to be honest. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
There's been a lot of hard work been put in to be here for this week | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
and I still crave that win, and my team are desperate | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
to win this as well, so it's going to be a tremendous | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
final and we're excited to get going. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
The winners, of course, go to Edmonton in Canada. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Do you even think about that or is it all about what goes | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
It's all about the next few hours, I'm afraid, yeah. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
You know, you can't really think about too far ahead. | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
You have to really focus on the job in hand and we've got a good grasp | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
of our strategy for the day and what we want to achieve. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Bruce says now is the time for a changing of the guard. | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
No, we'll hang about for a little bit longer, so we'll see | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
This is the last Scottish Championships | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
before next year's Olympics, so a good performance | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
here is vital to be in the frame for Team GB selection. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Added pressure, then, on David Murdoch to keep his hopes | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
alive for a chance to repeat the heroics of Sochi. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
A reminder of the format in the final. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Points are accumulated for the stones closest | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
to the T over ten ends, as long as they're | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
Each player takes their two shots in the same sequence | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Well, it was Murdoch who got the final | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
With the hammer in the first end and seven stones in play, | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
he had a chance for a massive score if he could pull off | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
He couldn't quite convert it, though, and had to settle for a two. | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
Mouat bounced back in the next end with a two of his own and we join it | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Commentary comes from Bob Kelly and Logan Gray. | :05:25. | :05:58. | |
COMMENTATOR: First stone of the third end under way. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Michael Goodfellow's been asked to come round it. | :06:01. | :06:16. | |
Yeah, as things currently stand for Team Murdoch, | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
not too much threat with that guard, not really anywhere | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Of course the game plan when you don't have the last stone | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
is to try to get them on the centre line and block the path | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
into the middle for the team with the last stone. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
So a little bit of work to be done here already for Team Mouat. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Yeah, and it's a very long guard, too. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Big distance between them with the swing there is in the ice. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
That isn't really acting as much of a guard. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Even if Mouat got one round behind he'd be able to play a quiet way | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Didn't quite curl as much as he'd have liked but got a result. | :06:50. | :07:20. | |
Mm, I think the sweeper's just a little bit keen there on that one. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Just took it those few inches extra that weren't required. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
If he can get past the guard, though. | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
Just down-weight maybe, do you think, Logan? | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
We saw a couple of takeouts in the first end really take off | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Yeah, just the same thing happened there again. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
An aggressive call here from Bruce Mouat. | :08:04. | :08:15. | |
Going to try and draw another one in here. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
I wasn't sure whether it was a guard or a short one he called. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Something definitely kind of covering the inside of | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
So they're looking for this one to curl right across | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
It looks like they need something, looking for it in the kind | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Right, don't need to miss it completely, but... | :08:47. | :09:01. | |
Depends what Murdoch does with this one whether it was right or not. | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Still room there to get in with a quiet weight, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
get to the nose or even just stay inside of the red Mouat stone | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
It's one of those ones actually, I'm not a huge fan of that call | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
but I don't know what the right call was there... | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
No, exactly, and I kind of go along with you. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
There wasn't really a very good one, was there, for him? | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
The stones were sitting quite awkwardly. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Yes, it's difficult to say if that was the right | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
time to push the button, but with this result, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
I think Team Murdoch have a chance to take the upper hand. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
There's no hit, of course, on the red in the centre... | :09:35. | :09:52. | |
Sorry, the yellow on the centre line there and roll in behind the guards | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
because it would jam on their own stone, so just having | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Don't have last stone so can't afford to have too many | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
And have to roll away from the cover. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
But hopefully keep it to beat the other yellow, | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
Oh, they'd love to stick around till lie two here but it's just | :10:12. | :10:27. | |
It might be on the rings but it's certainly not beating | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
Scott Andrews could play a takeout to lie two here but that would place | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
both of their stones behind the T-line. | :10:46. | :10:46. | |
That red at the back is really not a worry | :10:47. | :11:04. | |
That's something that can be removed later. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
It's not in front of the T-line, more importantly. | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Something it can maybe rest against later on. | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
Actually comes right out the other side. | :11:12. | :11:23. | |
Chris, now, and his team will be able to play down the right-hand | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
side as we look at it, round the outside of | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
He is looking like following it in, though, Logan. | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
Seen that, so won't have to worry about this one staying out. | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
I think the deciding factor is definitely that we have seen | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
a few stones coming down this line that aren't completely | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
locked into coming round the other side of the guard. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Which looks like a more natural way to play the shot. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Playing a little bit of a dangerous game now, | :12:01. | :12:42. | |
Which is fine as long as you keep making the shots | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
but when you don't have last stone, if you just miss one | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Trying to move that red stone just played. | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
A huge swing, as we know, does it get punished? | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
There's nothing between that stone and the stationary guard. | :13:08. | :13:38. | |
But they really pile in with that draw, don't they? | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
It still was going at some angle and the curl was taking it. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Once again, without the last stone, just struggling to string | :13:46. | :14:12. | |
Kind of one made shot and then one missed one. | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
That's why they are finding themselves in these | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
Those three yellow stones on the right-hand side | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
Now a chance for Team Murdoch to lie three or maybe even four. | :14:31. | :14:51. | |
Certainly give him three, it could be four. | :14:52. | :15:08. | |
I think that's the shot that Bobby was indicating there. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
There aren't even any really good multiple takeouts, I don't think, | :15:13. | :15:25. | |
I think he's going to have to draw his way out of this if he's | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
Well, he pretty much did that in the first end, didn't he? | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
He's going to have to do that again here but you wouldn't like to be | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
in this position every time that you don't have the last stone. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Because you only have to fail once and the game | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
starts to slip from you, so four stones to come. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
May need another good one after this as well. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Certainly needs to exercise that in this end. | :16:00. | :16:23. | |
Not enough curl and already seen them make a couple of nice | :16:24. | :16:45. | |
takeouts down this line, Team Murdoch. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Yeah, I think the takeout's not necessarily worrying Murdoch, | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
it's where he's going to leave the shooter. | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
Confident he's going to be able to get rid of this one. | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
But they want to try and get the shooter into good position | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Certainly if he can get rid of the red, avoid the back yellow, | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
the one furthest back, he could certainly | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
Just got to watch this back one here. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
You know, that's almost the best shot. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
They're certainly looking for a big end, and why not, of course? | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
It means they have to dice a little bit with the guard. | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
But as we've seen before, once these stones in this | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
in-turn start to go, they really take off. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
So a lot of weight control required here. | :17:44. | :17:56. | |
The amount of curl very dependent on the weight thrown. | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Played the shot a little bit better, he wouldn't have got | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
These are the shots you really don't want to be playing as a skip. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
You don't have the last stone lying five against now. | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Courtesy of this shot by Dave Murdoch. | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Just pushes it far enough as well, that wide red. | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
Good result for not a great shot, to be honest. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Good skipping there by Greg Drummond, to steer the object | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Now, these are the ones you don't want to be throwing every end | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
They've got to make sure they get it fast. | :18:41. | :18:56. | |
Some sweep there by Cannon not to get that to there. | :18:57. | :19:13. | |
They've had a few of those today, really going | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Well, we see the resigned look on Bruce Mouat's face there. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
I think it may be three and a draw for four. | :19:22. | :19:34. | |
I think if he makes this draw three in a measure, | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
I wouldn't expect David Murdoch to miss an eight-foot draw for three. | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
And he's met a little bit of comeuppance here so... | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
Murdoch, anyway, needs to make this draw. | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
I've got a feeling it looks like four. | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
The super's indicating that it's all there. | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
Well, think he's made that one comfortably. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
The umpire will come on and decide whether it's three or four. | :20:21. | :20:36. | |
It's difficult to tell from here but certainly looks like yellow. | :20:37. | :20:54. | |
Sets the lever down below so it deflect the dial a little bit. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
Well, it didn't deflect the needle at all so that | :21:01. | :21:13. | |
meant it didn't touch it, so that's certainly yellow. | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
Some good play from Murdoch, some aggressive, chancy play | :21:16. | :21:33. | |
from Mouat not playing off, paying off, rather. | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
Well, the crowd at the Dewars Centre here in Perth are loving this final. | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
Plenty of action still to come, but let's take a brief hiatus | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
and find out just exactly what makes these two skips tick. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
I'm David Murdoch, I'm the skip of Team Murdoch. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
My name is Bruce Mouat and I'm the skip for Team Mouat. | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
Being in Perth for the Scottish Championships | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
We're all quite young, we've just come out of juniors. | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
Going to a world championships in Canada would be one | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
of the biggest kind of achievements in our sport, really. | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
It's going to be a real tough game against Bruce. | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
You know, the Scottish final's always a lot of pressure, | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
a lot at stake, and those guys have been doing well. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
The World University Games Championships recently. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
This is a new team that we formed this year. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
We're the University team so we went to the University games at the start | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
of this month and we actually won the gold medal. | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
It's three years since the Olympic Games. | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
Sochi just, you know, it changed everything for our lives. | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Realising the dream of getting a medal. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Just, you know, everyone noticing us down the street, | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
down our local clubs, people being inspired by us, | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
You know, so much interest in the sport. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
So when I tell other people I'm a curler, | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
normally it's, is that, like, a full-time thing? | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Normally it's trying to explain to people that you do | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
That opportunity to be at the Olympic Games stars here. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
We need to win this tournament, we need to go to the world | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Championships and do well, also gain points to get | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
So still a lot of work to do, a lot of challenges ahead. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
A reminder that it's 6-2 to Murdoch as we rejoin | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
COMMENTATOR: So a corner guard again here for Gregor Cannon. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
If you're going to be in there, you have to... | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
They've got around about the 80s, 85, Logan, I would have thought, | :23:47. | :24:39. | |
so that's what they'll be looking at this kind of standard | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
And I think what we're seeing is that Team Mouat is making a few | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
less shots along the way and probably falling a little | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
bit lower than that, so around the 70% mark. | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
Which is quite unusual for a third player. | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
It's just the kind of style of game that skip Bruce Mouat has | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Trying to get this one right round behind. | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
So they've got one at the front of house one | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Because there's no run back there, the way the two | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
No chance one of them could go back onto that one. | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
I'm sure the one in the front is reasonably well frozen. | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
I'm sure Greg Drummond will throw a big weight here. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Before they get rid of the red and at least one of the yellows. | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Might even see quite a few stones leaving the premises here. | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Only just got that one out the rings. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
I think they were a little bit more cute with that one | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
If he takes the double he can lie two but he's going to set up | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
a reasonably straightforward front to back double for Murdoch. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
Thinks it's too early to do that so we're going to really | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
try to replace that red just picked off by Drummond. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
So quite a nice angle on those two stones at the front of the house | :26:16. | :26:57. | |
Very much just leave a double takeout on the two yellows, | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
which is something that they may well have to do later on. | :27:03. | :27:15. | |
I'm not sure we're getting that out of there, actually. | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
I'm not sure we're getting this going. | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
Like, say you came there, not terrible. | :27:20. | :27:46. | |
The good thing is this wee tap, tap, tap, this now aligns with this. | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Just trying to rearrange this a little bit. | :27:52. | :28:09. | |
Obviously doesn't like it at the moment the way these two | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
So he's going to play a tap of red, to yellow, to yellow, | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
the back yellow one biting the button, which will hopefully | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
leave the other red and yellow lined up on the red on the back. | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
Deftly got enough weight here to move things around. | :28:26. | :29:10. | |
I think that's pretty much exactly what they were looking for. | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
That was well thought out, wasn't it? | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
That big line of stones from the front there, | :29:16. | :29:25. | |
yellow, red, yellow, the second yellow one goes | :29:26. | :29:27. | |
on the red at the back of the four foot, or into the 8-foot, anyway. | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
So Murdoch was trying to make sure that happened. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Well, it's changed things round hugely, | :29:37. | :29:48. | |
I think Mouat has to be careful now, obviously setting things up, | :29:49. | :29:57. | |
trying to hope to get a multiple steal, but what he can't afford | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
to do is give up more shots to Dave Murdoch. | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
I think he's got to do something here, make sure he can at least | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
They're definitely going to try to get some granite flying here. | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
I quite liked the suggestion that Bobby Lammie had there, | :30:12. | :30:13. | |
to just try and tap that stone that's in the short position. | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
It's a more difficult shot but it may have had more reward, anyway. | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
That was always going to happen, really. | :30:20. | :30:39. | |
It could make it interesting to see if he does rush | :30:40. | :30:50. | |
He can play a controlled weight, he can get a hit on it and roll over | :30:51. | :31:03. | |
Even if he gets the nose hit, loses the back one... | :31:04. | :31:32. | |
They couldn't have got that one any better. | :31:33. | :31:55. | |
They've completely closed off the right-hand side of the house. | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
Bruce Mouat's going to have to play a bit of an adventurous one here, | :31:59. | :32:08. | |
He called Bobby Lammie to freeze the yellow stones there. | :32:09. | :32:24. | |
It looked really good, but in fact, the shot that Murdoch played | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
It might not do that again in similar circumstances. | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
They are going to try to raise the red stone in the house | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
That's the nominated shot, the one just next | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
Looking for round about a half-stone contact here. | :32:40. | :32:48. | |
Very high level of difficulty on this one, to get both the line | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
We've seen it run a little bit straight over on this side at times. | :32:52. | :33:03. | |
Five tariff shot, executed perfectly. | :33:04. | :33:15. | |
The reward, unfortunately, is just a single point. | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
Gives away the last stone, but reduces the deficit. | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
So after four rounds, it is Murdoch six, Mouat, three. | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
2016 World Junior Champion Bruce Mouat fighting back, then. | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
5,000 miles away in South Korea, the 2017 edition of | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
A Scotland team of skip Cameron Bryce, third, | :33:41. | :33:50. | |
Robin Brydon, second Ewan Kyle, and lead Fraser Shaw made it | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
But they ran out of steam against Norway, going down 3-10 | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
in just eight ends to miss out on a medal. | :33:57. | :34:06. | |
Before we focus on the final stages of this match, let's have a look | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
With four players in a team, each has an individual role. | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
Let's find out about them from some of the Scottish curlers. | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
And the lead plays the first two stones of the end. | :34:23. | :34:30. | |
And that's basically, once you've decided your strategy, | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
with your team, it's my job to set it up, to set up the structure | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
for us to be able to execute that strategy. | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
I played the third and fourth stones straight after the lead. | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
They are now trying to produce some opportunities for you, | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
get round the guards, set up a few shots. | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
So they stand on the head while I'm throwing my stones as skip. | :34:53. | :35:00. | |
I'm third, so I play the fifth and sixth stones of the end. | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
I do sweeping as well for the lead and second stones and then, | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
when the skip plays her stones, I go up and hold the brush. | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
I'm actually between line calling, shot playing and sweeper. | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
The skip has to be the guy that has a good day. | :35:15. | :35:25. | |
If your skip isn't doing well, you're not winning the game. | :35:26. | :35:27. | |
As skip, my role is to call the tactics in the game. | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
I will throw the last two stones in the end, | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
They usually either win you games or lose you games. | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
I guess the last decision would come down to myself. | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
If you make the shot then you've won the game, | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
but if you miss that shot, you have lost. | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
So it can be quite a lot of pressure, being a skip. | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
It's the fifth end and Murdoch has a three shot advantage. | :35:51. | :36:04. | |
Even at this early stage, Bruce Mouat and his team will be | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
conscious that that they need to move these yellow stones | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
a couple of times, really, to get into a shot scoring position. | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
So, at least that's started to be a possibility. | :36:17. | :36:18. | |
Couldn't have done much more, really. | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
Now it's clean-up time, just with a single peel. | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
Scott Andrews looking to remove the high one, | :36:31. | :36:32. | |
So we're onto the second player's stones and the free guard zone rule | :36:33. | :36:43. | |
The free guard zone rule really helps the team | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
who are losing in the game, gives them a | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
chance to come back in by allowing them to play into that white area | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
And know that the opposition won't remove it | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
Trying to make the guard here get it back again, got to | :37:01. | :37:17. | |
Yes, we can see the one tighter to the rings, which is | :37:18. | :37:34. | |
the one that is potentially hurting Team Murdoch. | :37:35. | :37:44. | |
It's open so Scott Andrews is going to remove that one. | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
Yes, Gregor being punished there really for not getting | :37:49. | :37:50. | |
You won't see Scott Andrews miss too many | :37:51. | :38:04. | |
They're going to draw around that stone just played with... | :38:05. | :38:19. | |
Not too worried about guarding the stones | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
It's a more usable guard for the skip stones. | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
Yes, one tighter to the rings, takes a bit of | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
Yes, trying to find a balance there really of hiding some of it | :38:30. | :38:51. | |
but also keeping it close to the centre line | :38:52. | :38:53. | |
Still need a miss here from Greg Drummond, though. | :38:54. | :39:15. | |
Well, Mouat running out of stones here in this fifth end and | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
lying two against, so just considering whether this is the time | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
to make a move to try again to a shot position. | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
What about nose at, like, barrier, and | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
Going to spill this on the edge of aid. It is going to be a barrier | :39:34. | :40:09. | |
weighed. Slightly down weight. Just have to get the nose of their own | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
one and take one of the others out. Two reds in the ring. One of the | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
others could spill. It stays in the rings, though. Probably didn't have | :40:21. | :40:30. | |
too many other options, though. The other stones not lying in a great | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
position. The important thing about the final result was to leave the | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
two red stones sell with no real takeout possibility, and they | :40:42. | :40:51. | |
managed to do that. OK, Greg Brom and will move the red and try to | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
hold the shooter. The skip told him it would be fine. -- Greg Drummond. | :40:57. | :41:16. | |
There are, there. High. Did very well, there. Missed the back one, | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
just. Great shot from Greg Drummond. Perfect shot, really. Team Murdoch | :41:23. | :41:31. | |
lying two here. This is how they did it. Just misses that one on the | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
button and rolls into a really nice position. This is the difficulty | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
with that guard being so long and not on the centre line, there is no | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
real bailout draw for team Malik. -- team Mouat. Having to gamble to get | :41:51. | :41:59. | |
stones in play. On the other side of the coin the yellows end up in the | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
rings and they are looking at a two which would not be great for the | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
cause of Team Mouat. Just going to try a little hit and roll, in front | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
of the other? Trying to do something a little bit fancy, here. Going to | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
try to pick the second shot Denly, and roll onto the three across the | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
bottom. Very, very high difficulty shot. And the miss still leaves two | :42:28. | :42:38. | |
yellows. You've got to think that Team Murdoch smell blood once again, | :42:39. | :42:40. | |
here. Well, it can often happen when the | :42:41. | :42:52. | |
team is down, having to take on a gamble, taking on these shots, and | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
if you're just not firing perfectly, which is probably what you move into | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
that trouble in the first place, not surprising they don't come off. -- | :43:01. | :43:12. | |
probably why you move. Anything but this. We can see he | :43:13. | :43:24. | |
doesn't want to roll just a bit to the right, as we see it there, to be | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
in front of his own first stone. Because that would give Bruce Mouat | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
something to freeze up against and some cover. Would obviously like to | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
keep this shooter in the rings. Towards his right. Keep three stones | :43:40. | :43:46. | |
in play but leave the middle wide open. So Murdoch's first. In the | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
fifth end. Not exactly where he was going for | :43:52. | :44:19. | |
but they got away with it. Certainly lies three. What are they going to | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
do with this? They are not lined up well from out | :44:25. | :44:42. | |
here, are they, Logan? There's definitely an opportunity to remove | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
all three. Hit the top run across the base of the one on the bottom, | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
then they will quite easily get them all going. But this freeze is really | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
their only opportunity to make a steel, which you feel even at this | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
early stage might well be required. Having said that, the freeze goes | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
wrong and they lose a three or a four, looking pretty bleak, isn't | :45:07. | :45:07. | |
it? I guess they need to weigh up how | :45:08. | :45:25. | |
much more difficult is that draw than the takeout, really. Probably | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
more reward in the core. Slightly more difficult shot. A real key | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
point in the match here, just going into half-time. And they know they | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
can't really afford to fall any further behind. So it looks like | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
they are giving it everything and the kitchen sink on this one. Where | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
not even hearing that, we? Not really, no. We are not. Three | :45:59. | :46:10. | |
losses, had to survive a tie-break previously. They won but the one | :46:11. | :46:19. | |
against Brewster 6-4. So certainly taken a lot. But certainly need to | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
make this one if they want to keep their hopes alive of taking Team | :46:27. | :46:42. | |
Murdoch. Hard line! Long guard looks a bit of a nuisance but they will be | :46:43. | :46:51. | |
too tight anyway. Ooh, just sneaks by. Has it got the running, though? | :46:52. | :47:05. | |
He's in for second shot. A good bit of sweeping to get it that far. A | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
passer-by absolutely nothing and then swept it really well to get it | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
in for second shot. It does look like quite a straightforward shot to | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
school three here, but now that long guard is in a bit of an annoying | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
position for David Murdoch. Should be able to peel it out quite easily | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
but they do need to give it a bit of extra attention. The danger is the | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
straight jam. That could give them one, which clearly doesn't want to | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
do, so he looks like he's going to actually play it off his own. Take | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
his own yellow hearthstone. Might end up only getting a two but gives | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
him a good buffer to extend the lead from three to five. A bit of a | :47:58. | :48:06. | |
veteran call here! I think so. He's probably seen it all before and | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
thinks, no problem. Not even going to take the chance of that | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
happening. Knows the scoreboard, knows where he is, knows what he has | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
to do. And he's going to keep the other one as well. | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE So Team Mouat have to gamble a | :48:28. | :48:29. | |
little bit. Not making all the shots. Another three go on the board | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
and that lead is getting pretty large. Fifth end break coming up and | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
it's 9-3. When they came back after the break, | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
Mouat struggled to turn things around. He blanked the sixth end to | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
keep the hammer, and in the seventh, he could only claim a one. So | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
moderate clip by five going into the eighth and we pick up again with | :48:57. | :49:09. | |
Drummond's second stone. -- so Murdoch leads by five. | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
COMMENTATOR: They wanted list top of the T line. Not even going to be | :49:18. | :49:27. | |
shot. All of a sudden a bit more interest here for Team Mouat. | :49:28. | :50:01. | |
Still fully focused on the job in hand despite this large lead David | :50:02. | :50:12. | |
Murdoch has. Can Bruce Mouat get a good one here in the rings, get it | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
covered? Struggled a bit withdraw weight in this game. Started off | :50:18. | :50:26. | |
magnificently. -- struggled with draw weight. Since then, been a bit | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
awry with these. This is coming deep as well. It's going to be second | :50:34. | :50:43. | |
shot, though. Give them room for another one. When David Murdoch | :50:44. | :50:54. | |
misses this one, you mean? Or they hit and roll of it! So, Murdoch | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
facing two. So just three to come here in this | :51:00. | :51:21. | |
eighth end. Two for Murdoch and one for Bruce Mouat. | :51:22. | :51:29. | |
Line's good! Still good! Line's good! Hard! Hard! Not sure if it's | :51:30. | :51:51. | |
past the front one. I think it is. Just rubbed it. Just about gets to | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
where he was aiming for, mind you. Really nice shot. Kills two of those | :51:57. | :52:08. | |
red stones in there and just one to come from Bruce Mouat. So Greg | :52:09. | :52:18. | |
Drummond giving that once somebody English as it went by! Pretty much | :52:19. | :52:28. | |
find the perfect spot in the end. So that game plan for Bruce Mouat of | :52:29. | :52:38. | |
making Team Murdoch face them and it will just be a follow it down job | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
here. A lot of weight and a lot of line on this one. Heavy with his | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
first one and even heavier with this one. So you have to say is a poor | :52:52. | :53:00. | |
shot from Mouat. Well, Murdoch lies one. Got to get it effort, even to | :53:01. | :53:12. | |
spare two. The fat lady may well be about to sing here. She's warming | :53:13. | :53:24. | |
up, that's for sure. Well, they've already achieved their object for | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
the end. You think that would be enough to seal the deal for Team | :53:30. | :53:37. | |
Murdoch to become the 2017 Scottish champions and the representative | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
team for Scotland at the world Championships in Edmonton in April. | :53:42. | :53:50. | |
So, final stone of the eighth end for David Murdoch. Looking pretty | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
happy with it. So is it going to be one or two? | :53:57. | :54:17. | |
Just the one. And the offer of a handshake from Bruce Mouat and team. | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
And a smile on David Murdoch's face. And why not? We have our champions. | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
The men's curling champions 2017. David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
Andrews and Michael Goodfellow. And of course their | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
coach, Ian Tetley. A thoroughly professional | :54:34. | :54:34. | |
and workmanlike performance. Experience prevailing over | :54:35. | :54:41. | |
the youth of Bruce Mouat. David, first Scottish | :54:42. | :54:44. | |
title since 2013. And clearly, you are very, | :54:45. | :54:52. | |
very happy about it. There's so many good | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
teams in this event. And it's a marquee event | :54:57. | :55:04. | |
for Scottish curling, and there's a lot at stake this | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
year, and I'm so proud of the guys. They've just put in so much hard | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
work leading up to this. Greg, give us a sense of just how | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
much work you actually did put in, because this is such an important | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
one for you to get back Yeah, the last couple | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
of years, we've had a tough So it was a challenge for us to put | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
the work in and get that little bit better in order to come here and try | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
and win this week. Also, this young team | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
you are playing against, the world University champions, | :55:34. | :55:35. | |
are coming into this competition in great form, | :55:36. | :55:37. | |
and lots of confidence, as well. You had to get into this game and do | :55:38. | :55:39. | |
well, right from the start. Yeah, we knew that Bruce | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
and the boys were going to come out of the blocks firing, | :55:44. | :55:46. | |
they came through the tie-breaker. They beat the defending champion, | :55:47. | :55:48. | |
Tom, they beat Kyle Smith. As you say, they are the World | :55:49. | :55:50. | |
University Games champions. They are going to be | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
at our toes for the next couple And, Michael, such a good thing | :55:54. | :55:56. | |
to see you guys back here. And the big hug you were giving | :55:57. | :56:05. | |
each other at the end, That was a lot of tension | :56:06. | :56:07. | |
being released there, I reckon. We've had an up-and-down season, | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
an up and down last couple of years, since the Olympics, so it really | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
meant a lot to get back in the World Championship | :56:17. | :56:19. | |
and represent Scotland, David, let's talk | :56:20. | :56:20. | |
about the Olympics. You had that silver medal, | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
of course, and you haven't So you're now going back, | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
you are going to go to Canada and you are going to be flying | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
the Saltire as well. There's no better place than playing | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
in front of a Canadian crowd. Huge crowds, super exciting, | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
and an opportunity for us. We have high expectations | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
and we want to continue our form going | :56:41. | :56:42. | |
into the World Championships. Congratulations, Scottish | :56:43. | :56:44. | |
champions 2017, Team Murdoch! You came into this in great | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
form, but they were in And they punished our | :56:50. | :56:59. | |
mistakes, for sure. But, yeah, I'm really | :57:00. | :57:07. | |
proud of my team. They've played awesome all week and, | :57:08. | :57:15. | |
yeah, I'm happy to be in the final, Great to be in the final, | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
but I guess an uphill battle for You lost a four in the third end | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
and, after that, it's just so Yeah, especially | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
against a team like that. You have to be on point just | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
to get two back in that. So we tried really hard to get | :57:34. | :57:36. | |
the two, but they just What will you take | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
from this final, and the fact that you managed to have such | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
a lot of success this week? We've all really focused | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
on getting this far and So it's just proved | :57:47. | :57:49. | |
that we can dance with So it was experience | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
which overcame youth. And a first taste of victory | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
for these men in their national That was the year before | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
they went on to take So, it's Team Murdoch who will be | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
heading over to Canada. It's the country where | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
David won the second We wish him and his | :58:19. | :58:20. | |
rink all the very From all of us here at the Dewars | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
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