We’ve only played seven games so far this season, so nothing’s cut and dried,’ he said.
‘No-one should be talking about a relegation issue with so many more games to play and, like us, although Lewes have lost games, their record shows that they score against the teams who beat them.’ Unchanged With the pitch at St Peter in ‘tremendous condition’ Burton is able to send out an unchanged team to the one which went down 13-10 away to Portsmouth last weekend and is looking forward to a game of open, honest, 15-man rugby.
Even in defeat last week the try count was 2-1 in Jersey’s favour and with a fit Darren Toudic to kick the goals Jersey could, and should, have won.
‘That was one of those games which teaches you about not being 100 per cent prepared,’ said Burton.
‘At this level you can’t leave anything to chance and it was a wake-up call to us.
That won’t happen this week; more than one player has been putting in extra kicking practice.’ Toudic, too, is on the bench if needed and almost certainly Burton will use all of his squad at some stage of the game, as he looks to edge further up the table where Jersey deserve to be; not least because they play such an attractive style of rugby.
Kick-off is at 2.30 pm.
Team: Marcus Nobes, Josh Chamier, Jim Brimelow, Richard Quirk, Ian Henderson, John Allo, Richie Griffiths, Harry Bonn, Paul Nayar, Jamie Allan, James Milner, Steve O’Brien, Steve Mee, Mark White, Gareth Jeffreys.
Replacements: Peter O’Connor, Richard Vetier, Dave Miles, Darren Toudic.
