Stirling Wolves produce perfect end for Super Series rugby at Bridgehaugh with Watsonians triumph

It was the perfect curtain call for Super Series rugby at Bridgehaugh as Stirling Wolves kept up their bid to add Sprint success to their trophy cabinet.

The Wolves were playing their final home game of the campaign against Watsonians on Saturday, with the competition set to come to an end of this season.

It will mean much of the Wolves squad - the current reigning Super Series champions - will have to face up the possibility of playing National One rugby for Stirling County.

The news came as a blow for the club earlier this year, but coach Eddie Pollock and his charges have kept themselves on track and have bounced back well from a bruising opening day defeat to Ayrshire Bulls.

They now sit second in the table behind the Bulls with trips to Boroughmuir Bears and Southern Knights to round out their campaign before hopefully setting off for the end-of-season playoffs once again.

It was a tricky start for the Wolves shaking off the rust after their match against Glasgow Warriors A was called off last time out due to Glasgow failing to have enough players.

But with Scotland preparing to host Taylor Swift in the next couple of weeks, the home side shook it off to run in six tries and triumph 40-26 by the final whistle.

Stirling head coach Eddie Pollock - set to move upstairs to a performance director role next season - admitted it was the perfect send-off for the competition at Bridgehaugh.

He said: “We still have big games to go, but it was not a bad way to sign off if this is the Wolves’ last home game.

“We scored a really good try to start but were then under the cosh for the next 20 minutes and defended really well. They could easily have been 20 points up, but they weren’t.

“It was good to see that hunger to stop them from scoring. It was always a risky game. We hadn’t played for three weeks with the Glasgow ‘A’ game being called off and the fallow weekend, and that showed.

“I don’t know how many times we played great rugby but then somebody dropped the ball when scoring.

“It must have been four or five times, which is not like us. It was great to create those opportunities; there was a lot of good rugby, but we will still need to get better.”

The trips to seventh and sixth placed Boroughmuir and Knights respectively will present banana skins for the Wolves, but a potential dust-up with their beaten foes from the Super Series final in Ayrshire potentially awaits on the horizon.

It’s a 3pm kick off at Meggetland for Saturday’s game against Boroughmuir.