It is game on now for the two remaining fixtures of the season after an amazing game at Meadow Lane on Sunday against Exeter Chiefs.
The second highest crowd of the season, nearly 2000 people, were treated to a classic encounter between two of the best sides the league has to offer.
Having lost to Exeter in the two previous encounters this season, both at Sandy Park, there was a hint of revenge in the air as we run out onto the pitch at Meadow Lane with the Nottingham crowd behind us.
We are now joint second with the Chiefs on 106 points and the race is on to finish runners up in National Division One.
We travel to Esher on the 19th of April and we are on the road again at Coventry for the final game of the season a week later.
Exeter on the other hand face Coventry at home on April 19 and follow that with a tricky trip to Doncaster on the final day of the season.
The focus for these games will be on picking up bonus point wins (winning the game and scoring four tries) from the two games and hope that Exeter fail to do just that.
Following a draw between Plymouth and Cornish Pirates we are guaranteed to finish third this season and that alone is a fantastic achievement but to finish runners up would be the icing on the cake.
You only have to look around at the other sides in the top six to realise that we have punched well above our weight. All of the other sides around us have a full time squads and much higher budgets. W
We have been fortunate to be very lucky with injuries this season which has meant that we could field our full strength side but it is a very tight balancing act and the medical staff at the club have done a fantastic job.
The players have their first week off training this week, due to the fact that we have not got a game this weekend, and it is long overdue.
We have been training full on since the beginning of June and have not had a weekend off since August! The bodies will enjoy the rest but the minds are racing ahead to what we have to achieve in the next two games.
Thank you for all your support at Meadow Lane last weekend, you were the 16th man out there!
The second highest crowd of the season, nearly 2000 people, were treated to a classic encounter between two of the best sides the league has to offer.
Having lost to Exeter in the two previous encounters this season, both at Sandy Park, there was a hint of revenge in the air as we run out onto the pitch at Meadow Lane with the Nottingham crowd behind us.
We are now joint second with the Chiefs on 106 points and the race is on to finish runners up in National Division One.
We travel to Esher on the 19th of April and we are on the road again at Coventry for the final game of the season a week later.
Exeter on the other hand face Coventry at home on April 19 and follow that with a tricky trip to Doncaster on the final day of the season.
The focus for these games will be on picking up bonus point wins (winning the game and scoring four tries) from the two games and hope that Exeter fail to do just that.
Following a draw between Plymouth and Cornish Pirates we are guaranteed to finish third this season and that alone is a fantastic achievement but to finish runners up would be the icing on the cake.
You only have to look around at the other sides in the top six to realise that we have punched well above our weight. All of the other sides around us have a full time squads and much higher budgets. W
We have been fortunate to be very lucky with injuries this season which has meant that we could field our full strength side but it is a very tight balancing act and the medical staff at the club have done a fantastic job.
The players have their first week off training this week, due to the fact that we have not got a game this weekend, and it is long overdue.
We have been training full on since the beginning of June and have not had a weekend off since August! The bodies will enjoy the rest but the minds are racing ahead to what we have to achieve in the next two games.
Thank you for all your support at Meadow Lane last weekend, you were the 16th man out there!
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