St Johns Club Whanganui Metro heads into the final game of round robin in the Manawatu Colts division rugby championship full of self belief, surprisingly on the back of 19-7 loss to unbeaten competition leaders Feilding Yellow on Saturday.
Mark Cosford, who co-coaches alongside Russell Gedye, said the final score was misleading after Feilding came back late in the game when Metro was a man down.
"I think we dominated most of the first half at least, if not much of he second spell as well," Cosford said.
"We held Feilding to a nil-all draw at half time and then we scored first in the second half to take a 7-nil lead. They came back and scored pretty much against the run of play and then we had a man sent off. They captitalised scoring again late, but I think we gave them a bit of a fright performing as we did this time around."
The loss, and College Old Boys' 31-19 win over Massey White, slipped the Metro lads back to fourth on the table, but still well in the hunt for a semifinal spot in a fortnight.