Clark is rel­ish­ing chal­lenge
Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
30 Aug 2024

DUNDEE Rugby head coach Alan Clark is look­ing for­ward to lead­ing his charges into the Arnold Clark men’s National One sea­son, start­ing tomor­row away at Glas­gow Accies.

Clark, who has taken over the role from Alan Brown, played for Dun­dee back in the day and has pre­vi­ously had a stint as assist­ant coach under Ian Rankin in the heady days of the Premi­er­ship and the Brit­ish & Irish Cup.

Most recently coach­ing­wise, he was at Perth­shire before tak­ing some time out last sea­son, but now he is back at May­field and look­ing for­ward to lead­ing his charges into what is to come in the second tier over the com­ing months.

With a rejig in Scot­tish club rugby fol­low­ing the end­ing of Super6/series com­pet­i­tions, National One is made up of 10 teams in 2024-25 with one going up and three going down.

With Stirl­ing County and Bor­ough­muir set to be strong post-super6/ Series and a num­ber of good teams in the divi­sion, every game is going to mat­ter.

Dun­dee were ninth last time around, edging out of releg­a­tion trouble when just one went down, and ahead of this term Clark said: “As a coach­ing group and as play­ers we are look­ing for­ward to it.

“A lot of the talk recently has been about Stirl­ing and Bor­ough­muir now being in this league, but there are also good teams who have been at this level a while now such as Gala, High­land and Big­gar.

“Glas­gow Accies, our oppon­ents in week one, fin­ished fourth last sea­son, so they will be a tough team to go up against on their own ground, but we are look­ing for­ward to all of the chal­lenges that are to come.

“I am just excited to be back at this club that means a lot to me and I have been delighted by the effort shown by the play­ers in pre-sea­son.”