Highland welcome back key players from injury for Biggar clash
HEAD coach Dave Carson says Highland will become a stronger force in National One this season with the return of personnel who have been missing at the beginning of the campaign.
It has been a tough start for the Inverness club as they have lost five of their first seven matches and find themselves in eighth place in the 10-team division.
With league restructuring taking place next season, the bottom three teams in National One will be relegated this season as Highland look to improve their form.
Highland have suffered injury problems in both their forward pack and in the backs.
But the injury situation at the club is expected to improve soon with the return of key players back to the starting line-up.
Grant Jamieson, Callum Macpherson and Rory Mighton are all set to return to the first team squad but Callum Carson, Jamie Carson, Gordon Gregor and Seamus Ross remain out injured.
Highland head to South Lanarkshire on Saturday to take on Biggar and Carson says that they should be in a stronger position than they were previously as they aim to improve their form.
He said: “It has just been one of these seasons with injuries and you can’t do anything about it.
“Every team will go through it at some point this season, so we just have to take it on and keep at it.”
Carson says the top three teams, GHA, Stirling County and Glasgow Academicals, are a step above everyone else in the division this season.
But he says the other teams below are of a similar standard and is confident they can do enough to get out of relegation trouble.
He said: “We are off to Biggar this weekend and then we have two home matches against Boroughmuir who are below us and Gala who are above us.
“If we can get something this week and then a couple of home wins that will push us up the table.
“The division is going to be so tight as there are three teams who are going down this year after a restructure. We are not thinking about that at the moment, but it something that is in the background.
“We know that we have to start picking up points. We have played the top three at home already this season, so we have to win the rest of our home games, without a doubt, to get us up the table.”
