KIRKCALDY Rugby Club have claimed that their player-coach was subjected to sickening racial abuse from an opponent during a match in the Borders on Saturday.
Club president Don Burns told SportsPress that Quintan Sanft, the club's Samoan star, was the target of racist slurs during his side's 33-10 win over Hawick YM.
Mr Burns explained that the club is preparing to cite the YM player alleged to have made the verbal attack, heard by spectators and players alike, to the Scottish Rugby Union.
"It's left me shocked and appalled," Mr Burns said.
"I've been in rugby since I was 12-years-old and never heard a player be called names like that.
"It's hard to believe that can happen in this day and age when there are so many warnings about it. The boy is clearly off his head.
"I don't think he realises what he's done and what's now going to happen to him.
"It's left a bad taste in all our mouths. We'd just won a cup quarter-final but it killed it for us."
Sanft was Kirkcaldy's key player in the National Shield quarter-final victory, scoring two tries and converting numerous others as the team over-turned a 10-7 half-time deficit.
Although Sanft confessed that he did not hear the alleged abuse aimed at him, he was made aware of it.
"We all felt for him but to Quintan's credit, he shrugged his shoulders and just got on with winning the game," Mr Burns added.
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