Stirling County

The head coaches for the new Super 6 tournament have been announced.

After slipping up at Hawick last week, Currie Chieftains returned to winning ways and enhanced their Tennent’s Premiership play-off hopes with this emphatic victory over Stirling County.

Scotland centre Alex Dunbar is set to play for Tennent’s Premiership leaders Ayr this afternoon as they host third-placed Heriot’s in the game of the day.

Ayr joined the small band of teams to edge out Stirling on their own ground in a thrilling last-ditch win.

Jed-Forest are the only non-top flight club left in the Scottish Cup and their reward for making it into the quarter-finals is a home tie with Heriot’s.

Holders Melrose battled back to defeat Boroughmuir 36-28 in a cracking Scottish Cup first round tie in Edinburgh last night, writes Gary Heatly.

Scottish Cup holders Melrose get their defence of the trophy underway this evening when they take on Boroughmuir at Meggetland in round one.

Co-captain Fergus Scott scored the winning try with five minutes to go as Currie Chieftains defeated Tennent’s Premiership leaders Ayr 24-23 yesterday to honour the memory of Campbell Reynolds in style.

Campbell Reynolds will be on the minds of all the Currie Chieftains players ahead of their Tennent’s Premiership clash with Ayr this afternoon.

Watsonians followed up last week’s win at table-topping Ayr – the Millbrae side’s first defeat of the season – with another excellent victory on the road.

This was nothing if not a curious encounter. Stirling dominated the first half but found themselves trailing 10-0 after half an hour as a try from Robert Beattie, goalled by Ross Thompson, who also nudged over a penalty, put Hawks ahead.

This had always looked on paper to be an intriguing, close Tennent’s Premiership encounter and it did not disappoint.

After defeat last weekend at Millbrae, Melrose returned to winning ways with a bonus point victory over a Stirling County side poorly rewarded for their attacking approach.

Currie Chieftains were on fire to defeat Glasgow Hawks at Malleny Park in the Tennent’s Premiership, the hosts battling back from 21-12 down to win emphatically 71-28.

A barn-storming second-half show, in which they scored 26 unanswered points, carried Ayr to victory – even though the hosts were lucky to still be in the contest at the interval.

Watsonians rode their luck against Stirling County to go in at half-time with an unlikely lead that they then stubbornly held on to over the full 80 to record a first win in the first game of the new season.

Watsonians recovered from a slow start to score three tries and win the first game of the new season as Stirling County fell just short on the day.

Stirling County gave themselves a massive confidence lift ahead of next weekend’s Tennents Premiership kick-off by acheiving victory over Melrose in the BT Charity Shield match at the Greenyards.

Scottish Rugby has placed Grand Slam hero Sean Lineen in charge of pushing through its Super 6 strategy to revamp the club game.