IT'S back to Magners League business and a trip to Cardiff Blues tomorrow night where we will have to front up on league business without our international contingent.

But Cardiff will be the same and I think they had seven players involved in the RBS Six Nations game with England last Saturday.

So what this game offers is a chance for the boys who have been in and out of the side or who have mainly been on the bench to come in and stake a claim for a regular game.

For the likes of Stevie Swindall, at flanker, he has a chance to make a big impact at the Arms Park tomorrow and make it difficult for me to leave him out even when our Scotland boys return.

We will also benefit from the return of Dougie Hall at hooker as he has been released from the Scotland set-up to get some game time under his belt.

On the injury front, Graeme Morrison has been back with our physios having work done on the ankle injury that he sustained in the Stade de France at the weekend.

We are hopeful he will be available for selection for the Italy game on Saturday week.

But this is a big game for Warriors as we are only six points behind the leaders Munster and, of course, last time we met the Blues at Firhill we claimed a 28-0 win that was one of our best of the season.

In that game, just like the recent victory over Toulouse, the boys executed the game plan to perfection and it will be vital that we do so again because Cardiff will have revenge on their mind - there is no doubt about that.

But we must take confidence and self-belief into this game because we go into it on the back of two fine wins in France over Toulouse and then back at Firhill against the Newport Gwent Dragons, who we have found a very hard nut to crack this season.

It is difficult when you have built a head of steam up with back-to-back wins like these and then you go a month without a game.

Yet I know that has only sharpened the desire of the boys to come out the traps at the Arms Park and claim the double over the Blues.

After tomorrow night we go into another mini-break with no game for a fortnight until we face Ulster, at Ravenhill on March 7, and we want to go into it on the back of a win.

Looking back at Scotland's last Six Nations game at the Stade de France I know that Frank Hadden and the boys rightly feel it was a case of the one that got away.

There were so many positives from the game from the way the boys competed at the contact area and really upped their physicality and aggression.

I was particularly pleased with the contribution of the Evans brothers. Thom Evans added pace and invention on the wing and of course he took his try superbly.

But there was also a big performance from John Barclay at openside flanker. With the injury to Jim Hamilton it could be that our skipper at the Warriors, Al Kellock, will finally get his chance against Italy at Murrayfield.

I would go so far as to say that we can beat the Azzurri by over 20 points if we play to the same levels.