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What the coaches say –
“There is no getting away from last week’s disappointing performance. It was a perfect storm after losing a few senior players in the Marr game, a poor week’s training with new faces being implemented, James Pinkerton having to drop out the warm-up and battle through the game with an injury and then losing talismanic leader Stephen Leckey before a ball was kicked. However, credit where credit is due, Kelso had a good game-plan, were emotionally on point and battered us. We have not became a bad team overnight and the senior players have been brilliant this week at refocusing and getting us back on track. There was still a bit of a hangover on Tuesday, but the boys trained brilliantly on Thursday and will look to get back to playing the brand of rugby we know we are capable of on both sides of the ball. This week has been solely focusing on us and getting us primed for what we know will be a tough game against Accies. The boys are excited to go get back out on the pitch and put in a performance we know we are capable of …” – Andy Hill (Glasgow Hawks)
“There are areas of our game we need to put pressure on ourselves as a group to get better and which will allow us to continue to put pressure on the opposition. Games are coming thick and fast, and we must get back to winning ways this weekend versus Glasgow Hawks away …” – Iain Berthinussen (Edinburgh Accies)