Ealing Trailfinders are a 'Premiership team' - Matt Everard

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Warriors will cap off the first half of their Champ Rugby season with a trip away to top-of-the-league, undefeated Ealing.

Going into the match, Everard said that Ealing are the "clear favourites," and are the league's flagship team.

"They absolutely are the clear favourites, clear favourites," he said. "Deservedly so, they’ve been top of the table for the last how every many years now, they deserve to be where they are.

"They’ve got a brilliant squad, really, really talented players. They’ve got a Premiership team really, if I’m honest.

"Really well coached, a lot of resource, consistently right up there and deservedly so. Absolutely full credit to them, it will be a really, really tough game."

Everard added that, being the underdogs, he will be encouraging his side to enjoy the occasion and express themselves.

"Ealing are clear favourites, let's enjoy it, let's go and make sure we express ourselves in the way we want to play, let's make sure we continue in the vein we have around effort," he said.

"Can we push ourselves to an even darker, deeper place than we already have around effort?

"The effort has been consistent, it is the accuracy and cohesion that we keep building on, but are the players working incredibly hard every week for the players and the fans? They absolutely are.

"So let's go and do that again, and what an exciting team to go and play against."

Everard said he could spend all day listing the threats posed by Ealing, but added his side have a plan to deal with the reigning champions.

"From individuals, to the amount of tries they have scored – way more than anyone else in the league, to their set piece, a serious threat," he said.

"Look like I said, they are a Premiership team with Premiership resource.

"That is probably another reason why you have just got to really focus on yourself and your own improvements because they have just got this multifaceted threat, obviously a very, very talented outfit.

"We’ve got a plan. We have got a plan that is around us being hard to beat for this weekend.

"A lot of that is improving the stuff we have not improved on the last couple of weeks but if we improve those bits and we express ourselves we will be hard to beat."