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​Build-up: A look ahead to the Super6 match with the Southern Knights

​Build-up: A look ahead to the Super6 match with the Southern Knights

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We look back on the FOSROC Super6 match with Heriot’s and ahead to this weekend…

Watsonians, Heriot’s, Ayrshire Bulls and the Southern Knights will contest the FOSROC Super6 title ply-offs in March, but with one round of regular season fixtures to go this coming weekend there is still plenty to play for.

‘Sonians will have a home semi-final on the weekend of March 20-22 with the opposition still to be confirmed depending on final places in the top four.

First will play fourth and second will play third that weekend with Stirling County and Boroughmuir Bears playing their first leg for fifth an sixth.

Then the following weekend the final and other placing games will be played, the main final being at Scotstoun.

Looking back on the last match, a 24-21 win over Heriot’s on February 14, head coach Fergus Pringle said: “We felt we weren’t bad in the first half, there was just a few mistakes we made and Heriot’s took their chances really well. Scoring a try just before half-time made a massive difference for us.

“There is a big difference between going in at 21-10 and going in with it 21-3. I think in the second half we actually chased the game a bit too hard, and I think we could have scored a few more tries if we had been a bit more clinical and stuck to what we wanted to do.

“Having said that, we lost some key players and had to shift personnel round which meant we lost a bit of continuity.

“I’m just really proud of the boys for the character they showed. They stuck in there and didn’t drop their heads. I think it is in the memory bank because they have done it before.

“We’ve got a good group of players here who work hard and get on well, and I’m sure the other teams are the same, but we’ve managed to win some key moments in big games, and it has become a habit.”

In the Heriot’s match the tries came from Lewis Berg, a penalty try and Jamie Forbes while captain Lee Millar kicked the rest of the points.

The Southern Knights game was tight at the start of the campaign at The Greenyards and the Borderers have bee o a great run of form, so it should be a cracker at Myreside this Saturday (3pm).

In November, the Super6 squad produced a superb comeback to defeat the Knights 14-13.

The Knights had a lot of possession in the opening 60 minutes of the clash in the Borders while Watsonians had three men in the sin bin at various stages and also had to deal with an injury to tighthead prop Jack Stanley after 33 minutes.

As a result the home side were 13-0 up as the hour mark came and went, but superb defence and a willingness to dig in for each other kept Watsonians in with a sniff.

The kicking games of Millar and Joe Reynolds then started to pin the Knights back in their half and the forwards took confidence from that, starting to punch holes in the defence and make real yards.

And in the 63rd and 69th minutes respectively Reynolds and Berg scored tries converted by Millar as they secured a famous one point triumph much to the delight of the travelling supporters.

Words by Gary Heatly

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