EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS REPORTS
COLIN RENTON

SCOTLAND'S top-flight rugby clubs will battle it out in a new style Super Cup, confined to Premier One clubs in the coming season.

The vote at last Friday's SRU agm at Murrayfield to extend the Premiership Division One to 12 teams from season 2007/08 means that the fixtures revealed in the Evening News last week will apply.

As a result, Heriot's will host champions Glasgow Hawks on the opening day, while Watsonians will face Ayr at Myreside with both Boroughmuir and Currie on the road to face Hawick and Aberdeen Grammar respectively.

One team will be relegated and three will move up from Division Two to provide the 12-team league for the following season.

With the campaign scheduled to end on January 13 and clubs voicing concern over the lack of revenue-generating matches for the rest of the year, the governing body has introduced a Premier One-only Super Cup that will be contested between January and March.

The competition will be played in two pools, with Capital clubs Watsonians, Currie and Heriot's all in Pool B, while Boroughmuir will be in Pool A alongside Glasgow Hawks. The competition will be played over a six-week period, with the final, between the pool winners, on March 31.

This article was posted on 5-Jul-2006, 12:21 by Hugh Barrow.