Gloucester centre Matt Scott is calling on his team-mates to grab the opportunity with both hands in the European Challenge Cup final.
Gloucester meet Stade Français at Murrayfield on Friday. Victory for David Humphreys’ men would keep them in contention for Champions Cup rugby next season, something that Scott is targeting.
“We didn’t achieve Champions Cup qualification in the Premiership, but we have this game as a last chance to get into the Champions Cup (play-offs),” Scott told BT Sport.
“It has been a long, hard shift this season, but we have got to say we have got two or three more weeks to salvage something tangible from our season.
“The chance to win silverware doesn’t come around very often in professional sport. There are lots of fantastic players who have not won silverware in their careers – that’s the way it happens.
“We have got to grasp this opportunity with both hands and we’ve got the added incentive of trying to secure top European rugby at Kingsholm next season.
“We’ve fallen off at the end of games for whatever reason this season and it has been infuriating. We have beaten some of the best teams in the league this season, but against the middle teams vying for that top-six slot, we didn’t do so well. We struggled.”
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