SOUTHERN Knights head coach Bruce Ruthven is in a defiantly optimistic mood ahead of Friday's Super6 match against Boroughmuir Bears, despite being without 13 players due to injury.
The Melrose-based side had several players on the treatment table before the campaign began, and then lost considerably more in last week’s 36-12 defeat by Watsonians, including Ruaridh Knott, who broke an ankle, and Callum Grieve, who dislocated a knee. But influential back-row forward Harry Borthwick is back from injury, and Ruthven expects his reshaped squad to acquit themselves well.
