This weekend is very important. Winning this meet will plant a seed in their minds that this is the team to beat this year, and having that upper hand will help us throughout the season.

The coaching staff has worked us. We are a pretty self-driven team as well, but they know what we need to do to win. They work us to our potential and make sure we get everything done to go out on the floor and perform during our routine, and hopefully lead us to a national championship.

Winning isn't everything this weekend.

We believe we have a very good chance of winning this weekend. What's important to me is that the many thousands of Scots' fans traveling to Dublin do so not just in hope but with a genuine expectation of us doing something special again.

Right now the only thing I am concerned with is winning this weekend.

Winning that first game (last weekend) in South Africa was very important to us.