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Katie Daunt25 Feb 2017 - 09:50
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TWO more wins and Guernsey Ladies will be champions...

But ahead of Sunday's game at struggling New Ash Green, coach Chris Griffiths is demanding his squad don't get too carried away with the encouraging position they find themselves in, top of the South East South One table.

'The win against Lewes a fortnight ago was a fantastic result and has really paved the way for us to try and push on for the title now, though absolutely nothing is a given,' he said in announcing his team for the penultimate game of the league campaign.
'We are missing Anneka Saunders from the wing this weekend but Jillian Smith comes in to take her place, otherwise it’s an identical starting XV to a fortnight ago against Lewes, and if the players play as well as they did that day then I am confident we can look forward to enjoying more success on the pitch,' he said.

Griffiths is guarding against any complacency.
'It is fair to say that our opponents this weekend, New Ash Green, have been struggling this season and indeed had to pull out of our home game in December, so this will be our first game against them this season.
'However they have managed to get a team together for this Sunday and we know that they are hungry to play so we will be wary of just who they may have brought in to bolster their numbers and there will be absolutely no complacency going into this game.

'We have trained well over the last 2 weeks and we have a strong squad to travel to the UK on Sunday and of course we are confident of bringing back a win from our last away game of the season. However, we could really do with trying to secure the bonus point too, and scoring 5 tries is no mean task, especially playing away from home, so we have our work cut out.
'Lewes drew with Medway a couple of months ago and unless they draw again on Sunday we will need to also win the final match against Worthing on March 19th to secure first place, so as I suspected a few weeks ago, this season may very will come down to the very last day!'

TEAM:
1. Michaela Rabey
2. Sophie O'Connell
3. Heidi Mahy
4. Kristine Vavere
5. Ellie Whittles
6. Tanya Scholtz
7. Fiona Power
8. Eleanor Woodward
9. Jemma Crouse (C)
10. Fiona Ashworth
11. Sarah Woodington
12. Hannah McLennan
13. Chelsie Blondel
14. Jillian Smith
15. Vicki Rang

Replacements:
16. Michelle Schofield
17. Janelly Le Maitre
18. Aiga Vecmane

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