I’LL be honest, after 70 minutes in Edinburgh I was already thinking about how nice it would be to write about something really positive for Argus readers.

It was a game where I was so pleased about the effort and so proud of the boys and then, as has happened so many times this year, the final minutes didn’t go to plan.

To suffer a four-point defeat after dominating for so long was heart-breaking and we should never have lost after building a 20-3 lead.

Pretty much everything went to plan until the last 10 minutes and a lot of things that we had identified and worked on paid off.

We struggled with the refereeing at the set piece in the early stages but dealt with that ourselves to have the better of the scrum and lineout, reacting well.

It was great to see two of our outside backs – Pat Howard then Carl Meyer – scoring tries in the corner; it’s great as a forward to look up to see the ball being spread for a try out wide.

Everything went well and we managed to lose with the pain being made worse by our old teammate Jason Tovey having a strong finish to the game to punish us!

It was so frustrating but we have had to move on quickly for one last big effort for the season against Cardiff Blues in Caerphilly.

Our results have not been too good since the beginning of the year but the performances have improved in the last few weeks and it is telling that a more positive approach has led to bigger numbers on the GPS data.

We have really pushed ourselves and against the Scarlets at Principality Stadium we clocked up the miles.

That’s because we have been more of a threat in attack and to be honest you don’t feel the extra distance.

Playing on the front foot and with the ball in hand takes it out of you a lot less than being in defence for large portions of the game as we have been in the past.

When you have been defending desperately in a backs-to-the-wall effort it can feel like you have been hit by a bus when you get back to the changing room. If you’ve been able to show a bit of positive intent in attack then you are still battered and bruised but it doesn’t feel quite as draining.

A team’s back row forwards and centres tend to get the bigger numbers for distance covered during a game, around 7km is a good shift, but our fly-half Angus O’Brien has clocked up around 10km while the team total has been much higher.

That’s because of our attacking intent and I think our centre Sam Beard has been a big influence on that.

He’s had a great first season with us and has been encouraging us to just have more of a go from his position at 12 or 13.

That will be our approach against a Blues side who have been in great form recently – they have some quality players but we are relishing the challenge.

We’ve put in some good performances lately without getting the result so it would be nice to finish a tough season with a big derby win.