JERSEY RFC coach Barry George insists that he is looking forward to tackling Hayward’s Heath tomorrow an away game which could effectively earn Jersey promotion from London South II to London I.

‘Yes, I guess it’s winner takes all,’ he said. ‘Whoever wins has at least a 90 per cent chance of automatic promotion and it would be good to do something for Jersey history this weekend.

‘But I’m not nervous about it. You play the whole of the championship for games like these and you’ve got to enjoy them.

‘And the players won’t be holding back. They’ve had this game in their sights for a long, long time.

‘They know what it means for the club and the team and they’re mature enough to come out if it with a win in the end. I’d like to play open, running rugby and I know that Hayward’s Heath have been playing free-flowing rugby these last few weeks.

‘But at the end of the day it’s not the performance that’s remembered, it’s the result.’

While he insists that he expects his team to play ‘their own game’ and not to worry about the home side’s style, he will also know that Hayward’s Heath are just one point behind with a huge bonus in their points for/against difference, compared to Jersey’s.

However, with the welcome return of New Zealander Nathan Kemp at hooker, the side he is sending out is, on its day, an awesome one.

‘We’ll be preparing for it as usual,’ he said, laconically.

‘And I suppose if I was a bookie I wouldn’t know who to make the favourite; Jersey, who haven’t lost this season or second-placed Hayward’s Heath, who will be playing at home. Let’s just hope we can take the lead and then shut them out.

‘But no, I’m not nervous and I’d expect the players to be chomping at the bit to play in a one-off game like this.’

Collins Stewart squad: Jim Brimelow, Nathan Kemp, Jon Brennan, Toby Clyde-Smith, Talite Vaioleti, Kern Yates, Latu Maka’afi, Graham Bell, James Milner, James Cooper, Ben Harvey, Keiaho Bloomfield, Nick Buckley, Ryan Morgan, Jon Swift. Replacements: Peter O’Connor, Josh Chamier, Ian Henderson, Mark Le Mottee.