Mann out of Stags' tie with Grammar

Ross Sutherland will have to cope without the presence of player and head coach John Mann this weekend.

The Stags welcome Aberdeen Grammar 2nd XV to Invergordon, but it will be the first time in five years Mann does not play.

Everyone else is fit and ready to play though, so it will still be a strong team looking to put daylight between them and Grammar in the Caledonia North Two.

“I’m actually pretty sad because this is a rearranged fixture, so I’d put my name down to go and teach a course in Orkney, so I won’t be playing,” Mann explained.

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