Coach John Cashmore has rarely had a big pool of players to choose from this season, at times it has been a struggle just to get a team on the pitch.

Burgh have suffered injuries in key positions and have had difficulty with players availability for certain games due to other commitments.

Sterry thinks this has been a key factor in the team’s form this season.

He said: “It doesn’t help that that we are playing with almost a completely different team every week. It means we can’t learn how each other plays and develop a team understanding, if we has a consistent side we could play in more of a system.” Sterry at times this season has been Burgh’s shining light, he scored 13 of their 18 points in Saturday’s game against Garnock, and is their top point scorer this season.

However he missed, an albeit difficult conversion, at the end of the game which would’ve won them the cup tie, instead they lost out by a point.

He is a crucial member of their side though and without his points Burgh’s season would look a lot different at this stage, but Sterry doesn’t feel the cup exit will have such a big impact on the season.

He said: “We were always focused more on the league so it won’t put too much of a dampner on things. I think our defence was poor and then when you don’t take the chances you create it is going to be difficult.” Sterry is enjoying life back at Ardencaple after returning in January 2013 from a stint in Italy with Villorba but his career in Italy was sadly cut short.

He said: “I came home for Christmas and was due to fly back out but was diagnosed with four burst blood vessels which the doctor said I couldn’t fly with.

“It was supposed to take two months to heal and it took 13 so I couldn’t get back over, it’s probably unlikely that I’ll get that chance again.

“But I am more than happy staying here and playing my rugby with Helensburgh.”