The Super 6 investment and experience legacy at Stirling is very clear to see and feel from the moment you arrive. Their home changing room door is left open so the away team can see the personalised locker spaces, nutrition tables and interactive screen for analysis on the way past to their changing rooms, designed with a large partition in the middle. Professional approaches are everywhere from this to the volunteer army on hand to support the on pitch efforts.

We were under no illusion as to our underdog status but this is what we used as motivation for the game. There was a different feeling about our warm up and pre game energy built on self belief about the way we can play. As a coaching staff we also used the difference in resources and some of what we'd been hearing from Stirling supporters during the week as a tool to get us ready for the fight ahead.

This worked incredibly well and we scored 3 tries with no reply in the first 20 minutes, pretty much camping in Stirling's 22 and dominating the game. Stirling then came back and scored 3 tries themselves for a half time 17-19 score.

My half time chat was about giving everything for the next 20 minutes so we were in the fight at the end. A sucker blow was Stirling scoring right from the KO but we replied with a penalty to trail 24-22 at 55 mins.

It was at this point that the true legacy of what is essentially a full Super 6 squad started to show in terms of conditioning as we tired and Stirling cut loose for a 60-22 win.

Although we were disappointed to take nothing from the game in terms of points, what we did take was a massive boost in our belief going into the Peebles game next weekend.