Celebration Adds to Sense of Loss Alasdair Reid Sees Heads Held High and Both Champagne and Tears Flow As the Ospreys Enjoy Securing the Magners League Title While Borders Players Face Up to the Bleakest of Futures

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IT is hard to imagine Galashiels ever figuring in any tale of two cities, but that hoary old Dickensian line about the best and worst of times could scarcely have been more appropriate than in the contrast between the sides at Netherdale yesterday evening.

For the Ospreys of Swansea, the elation of a victory that brought them the Magners League title for the second time in three years; for the Border Reivers, the all-too-familiar dejection of defeat that brought down the curtain on their brief and troubled life.

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Celebration Adds to Sense of Loss Alasdair Reid Sees Heads Held High and Both Champagne and Tears Flow As the Ospreys Enjoy Securing the Magners League Title While Borders Players Face Up to the Bleakest of Futures

You would have felt for the Reivers players, too many of them still facing uncertain futures, as they were obliged to stand and watch the Ospreys accept the trophy at the finish.

It was hardly the fault of the Welsh side or their boisterous supporters ...

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