Ross Anderson hopes to become a regular for Aberdeen Grammar after his scoring start to the season.
Prop Anderson scored the first try in the Scottish Cup defeat to Marr last weekend and is keen to make an impact in the starting 15.
Grammar start their Premiership season at home to Edinburgh Accies tomorrow in a new-look division. The start of the Super 6 means the top six teams from last season’s National One were all promoted to the Premiership, to play alongside the remaining four teams not part of the franchised top-tier of Scottish rugby.
Anderson, 27, reckons Grammar can more than hold their own in the divison and hopes to be a big part of their plans.
He said: “Hopefully I won’t be working offshore as much this year, so I would like to be involved more. It would be good if I could score every week but I would rather the team won and I didn’t score.
“My first game for the first team was against Edinburgh Accies and I got yellow-carded, so hopefully it doesn’t come full circle. If anything, the game we had last Saturday has physically prepared us for this one.
“We’re pretty familiar with the top six we played last year – we had good performances and results against them at home. The Premiership teams are a bit more of an unknown but I feel like we can have a good year.
“We can only put ourselves in a good position and I would like the team to push on and stay in the league this year.”
Anderson featured in eight of Grammar’s last nine games in the 2018-19 campaign, making 10 appearances in all. His try against Marr was his first since scoring against GHA two years ago.
He added: “It wasn’t much hard work on my part. Taz (Matthias Schosser) charged down a kick and I jumped on top of it. I scored a couple of years ago from a faulty line-out – it was another fall-down-on-the-ball moment. It seems to be that I’m deadly from six inches.”
