London Welsh fly half Gordon Ross has insisted his match-winning heroics against London Scottish on Saturday are all in a day’s work.

The former Scotland international broke Scottish hearts with a last-minute penalty to secure an 18-16 win at Old Deer Park after opposite number James Brown had seemingly done the same to put his side 16-15 up with two minutes to go.

Tries from Hudson Tonga’uiha and Joe Ajuwa saw Welsh lead 12-3 at the break, but David Howells’ intercepted effort led the second-half fight back that set up the dramatic late finish.

It was not the first time Ross has stepped up late on for Welsh and it will not be the last, even if he does not remember too much about it.

“You’ve got to back yourself to get it, and thankfully I’d had a bang on the head and couldn’t remember too much, which made it easier for me,” he said.

“Apparently I was questioning my team-mates as to what the score was and how they got their try.

“When I asked Simon Whatling how they scored I don’t think he was too happy. I think he thought I was taking the mickey about the interception. That was a bit of an awkward moment.

“We thought we had an overlap – it could have been 19-3 to us had the ball gone to hand. That changed the whole game; from them doing nothing and not looking like scoring a try, we gave them a way back in,” said Ross.

“From there we had to fight hard and we struggled a bit at scrum time and it made for a long afternoon, but it was great spirit at the end to get the penalty and the win.”

Welsh may have made hard work of it and left it agonisingly late, but for Ross there were plenty of positives.

“We did some really good stuff at times and there was a good intent and enthusiasm to our play, but we just needed to be more accurate with our skills,” he said.

“If we hadn’t got caught up in the derby atmosphere we wouldn’t have tried a lot of stuff and we’d have played a more compact game.

“We tried to play rugby and opened them up several times. We’ve got to make better decisions on the ball.

“The better we become at making those decisions and the more clinical, the easier games like that will be for us.”

Welsh travel to Plymouth Albion and Ross reckons a strong defence will stand his side in good stead.

“Our defence will hopefully give us confidence and we need to build on that down at Plymouth,” he added.