We catch up with Super6 player Jamie Forbes…
Jamie Forbes has been one of the most consistent performers not just for Watsonians this season, but throughout the whole FOSROC Super6 competition.
The full-back, now 28 who is a PE teacher at George Watson’s College, is loving life in his second spell at Myreside as we head towards the play-offs.
Having attended GWC, Jamie left the school in 2009 and played his first two seasons of senior rugby under Bruce Aitchison and Marcus Di Rollo at WFC.
“Joining up with the senior squad that first summer post-school for pre-season was a good learning curve and I was lucky enough to play a fair few games in the first year,” he recounts.
“After the two years I headed to Currie for two years and the, after I finished at university, I went to Australia and ended up playing at Warringah for three seasons.
“That was a fantastic experience for me, I loved playing in different conditions against different players and Warringah is a brilliant club.”
Jamie then returned home and spent the next three years playing his rugby at Currie.
“I love Currie and made a lot of friends there and it was hard to leave last summer, but I am at that stage in my career rugby-wise where I still want to challenge myself and hearing about the Super6 and what it was hoping to achieve I was keen to get involved and give it a go if I could,” he explained.
“It was a difficult decision to make to move on from the Chieftains, but with my links at Myreside it was the natural option for me to return here and test myself in the Super6.”
Before this season Jamie had only played alongside Lee Millar [Scotland Club XV] and Joe Reynolds [Currie] from the current ‘Sonians squad before and he was impressed how quickly the group came together under head coach Fergus Pringle before this campaign started.
Fast forward nine games and the club can still finish top of the regular season table with a victory over the Southern Knights this Friday and are heading into the end of season play-offs in fine fettle.
“The group has been brilliant, everyone has been putting in the hard yards at training with a collective desire to improve and that has shown in our matches when we have sometimes had to battle hard for wins and other times we have been able to score tries more freely,” Jamie said.
“All of the sides who will be playing off for the title are quality, we will just focus on what we can do and our own processes and see where it takes us.”
Remember the Super6 squad play their next game on Friday night at home to the Southern Knights at 7.30pm, get along and cheer them on
Words by Gary Heatly
Images by Graham Gaw, more here
