Guernsey Press

Promotion push about to restart

GUERNSEY'S new year push for promotion should begin belatedly tomorrow.

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[caption id="attachment_41040" align="alignright" width="175" caption="Dave Harvey, scorer of one of the tries when Guernsey beat Winchester 56-10 in October, will be one of the forward pack captain Simon Sharrott wants to front up tomorrow. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0713178)"]

The Greens, who are currently fourth in a very congested title race in London Two South West, travel to Hampshire to face bottom side Winchester, hoping to play their first fixture in five weeks.

'The past month has been frustrating for us with cancelled games and disrupted training sessions,' captain Simon Sharrott said.

'However, we are not the only ones in this situation – most of the teams within the league have had a stop/start end to December and start to January.

'We have to stay positive and make the best of a bad situation.'

Just two points separate the top six clubs in the 12-team league with Guernsey one of a trio on 14 points behind the top three who all have 16.

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