Borders Go Out with Heads High Reivers Lose Their Last Game but They Didn't Allow Champions to Have It All Their Own Way.

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AT THE end of the saga the Borders raised a very decent last hurrah for their swansong at Netherdale yesterday evening. The Reivers played their final match and they lost it, just as they have lost all but two of their outings this season, but at least they made the high-flying Ospreys fight for their crown.

"My feeling at the final whistle was of great pride in the boys," said coach Steve Bates. "It just goes to show what we can do when we get our best team on the field or something close to it. If Chris Cusiter had been playing we might have scored when we had the pressure. We played with self- belief which is what has been missing against the big teams all year."

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Borders Go Out with Heads High Reivers Lose Their Last Game but They Didn't Allow Champions to Have It All Their Own Way.

There is a feeling that Bates will be as much a loss to Scottish rugby as any of his players. On the same day that the Guinness Premiership was decided in front of 60,000-odd at Twickenham, the organisers of the Mangers League must have been dreading their own league winners bein...

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