Gerrit-Jan van Velze

I arrived at Sixways in the summer with the aim of leading the club back into the Premiership and I have enjoyed my season as captain and met some great people.

Sam Lewis took full advantage of our forward dominance to get on the end of three driving mauls.

WE head into tomorrow’s Greene King IPA Championship play-off semi-final second leg against London Scottish at Sixways with a narrow five-point advantage.

THE mood in the Sixways camp has been positive despite losing to Bristol who beat us twice during the season and deserved to finish top of the Championship.

WE are all looking forward to our last Championship league fixture of the season against Bristol at Sixways on Saturday (3pm).

SOMETIMES it’s easy to be negative after a result like we had against Yorkshire Carnegie last weekend but we won the match 39-26 and the club is in a good space.

We had a good weekend and then it was straight back into the thick of things as we started preparing for this Saturday’s match against Yorkshire Carnegie at Sixways.

THE mood in the camp has been very positive this week as we’ve focused on Friday’s trip to Doncaster Knights in the British and Irish Cup final.

WE will be aiming to bounce back from last weekend’s 23-21 defeat at Jersey by putting on a good showing against London Scottish at Sixways on Saturday.

SOME of you might be worried to hear we hit the rocks this week — but it was purely in a fun sense and we all had a great time.