THE boys are gunning for revenge against Edinburgh this evening and will be determined to finish on a high in our last home game of the season.

The campaign didn’t start too well at Rodney Parade but the last three games have been great occasions with Ulster and Leinster, two title contenders, beaten in the Guinness Pro12 either side of the Challenge Cup quarter-final win against Cardiff Blues.

The team will be desperate to keep that streak going and to sign off in style in front of our loyal supporters who, as usual, have stuck with us all season.

We are currently ninth in the table and we would cement that place above Cardiff Blues with a win, something that would be a massive psychological boost for the team that would give us something to build on next year.

We do owe Edinburgh one after our poor performance up at Murrayfield last month in the European Rugby Challenge Cup semi-final when we were thrashed 45-16. The beauty of sport is that you quickly get another shot.

We fell down in the set piece in Scotland so a strong performance there is essential, although here’s hoping that the weather forecast is wrong and we get the conditions for a fast, exciting game with minimal amounts of scrums and lineouts.

We’ve got one more game after this – away to Munster in Cork next Saturday afternoon – and hopefully that will be the last one that I miss for a while.

It’s been a frustrating time on the sidelines since February because of my wrist injury but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I am finally doing upper body weights and did my first running season on Wednesday, which was tough to say the least.

That was a pleasant break for my backside after racking up the miles on the bike – even though that has been good preparation for the cycling part of the charity event that I am doing with friends in June.

Donations for Action Medical Research, which funds vital research to help sick and disabled babies, children and young people, are still more than welcome for the Race the Sun Brecon Beacons, which is a 45-mile bike ride, trek up Pen y Fan then 3km canoe (http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/LewisEvans).

Away from the gym it has been a busy week with a great introduction working with LifeEd at Undy Primary School and it was great to see the workshops helping to develop basic skills sometimes overlooked that are essential in helping the transition between primary and secondary schools.

Activities were done to develop a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communications skills ready for the high school environment with other aspects – such as getting used to being independent, using timetables, healthy living and anti-bullying – to be discussed in the future.

Starting preparation for next year’s rugby season with Newport RFC is also on the agenda soon, which is something I’ve never done before and I am looking forward to it.

Getting the coaching hat on so soon after the end of one campaign seems a bit weird but as the famous old quote says, ‘failure to prepare is preparing to fail’!