ALL SOUTHERN Knights matches in this season’s FOSROC Super6 Sprint Series will be broadcast live to a global audience.
Every Friday night game in the Sprint Series will be broadcast live on television by broadcast partner FreeSports and both Saturday games will be available on the BBC Sport website, BBC iPlayer and the Scottish Rugby website.
FreeSports will also make each Friday night fixture available to view on their FreeSports Player within the UK and Ireland, those out with those territories will be able to watch the games on the Scottish Rugby website.
Bringing the action to life will be the experienced commentary team of Stuart McFarlane, Paul Mitchell, Hugh Dan MacLennan, Jamie Lyall, Dale Clancy and Bruce Millar, who will be joined by guest co-commentators.
The FOSROC Super6 Sprint Series will commence on Friday 15 April, with all six participating teams playing each other once. The league will then be split with the teams who finished in the top half playing the teams who finished in the bottom half over three weekends of play-offs to determine the final placings.
The Knights’ Sprint Series action will kick-off against Heriot’s on Saturday April 16 at Golden Acre in Edinburgh.
In round two the Knights will face Watsonians Rugby at Netherdale on Saturday April 23 before they host Stirling County the following Friday under the lights.
In the penultimate Ayrshire Bulls will travel to Melrose to face the Knights and in the deciding round of matches Southern Knights travel to face Boroughmuir Bears on Friday 20 May.
With the league standings confirmed by the first five rounds of fixtures, the team that finishes in third place will travel to the team who finishes in second for a live broadcast game on Friday 27 May, on the Saturday fifth place will play host to sixth.
The next weekend third place will host first place on Friday 3 June, with fourth traveling to sixth the next day.
The winner of the league will be decided when the team who ends the five regular rounds of fixtures in first place hosts the second-place team on Friday 10 June, with fourth playing fifth on Saturday 11 June.
FreeSports can be found on Freeview HD channel 65, Sky HD channel 422, Virgin HD 553, TalkTalk 64, BT Vision channel 64 and on the online FreeSports Player.
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