Paul Volley says it will be an emotional experience returning to Chinnor, but he will be all out for victory with London Scottish.

The 37-year-old former Wasps and Harlequins flanker started his rugby career at the Oxfordshire club.

And now Volley will be playing at Chinnor for the first time since joining Wasps’ colts side aged 17.

Scottish are already National 3 South champions, and victory at Kingsey Road would keep them unbeaten – but it would almost certainly relegate Chinnor.

Volley, who attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame, said: “From a London Scottish point of view, rugby and sport is about being remembered.

“We are hoping to be the first team to be unbeaten throughout a season in this division, so there is an incredible emphasis on this game.

“If we win and they don’t get a bonus point, they will probably go down.

“I have kept in touch with many of the past players and have had a few texts saying ‘can you really do that to us?’.

“Although it is going to be a really tough, emotional game, we are out to win.

“Unfortunately our result will come at the demise of Chinnor, which is something I didn’t want.”

Volley stayed with Wasps until 2004 where he won the Premiership and Heineken Cup in his final season.

After a spell in France with Castres, he returned to London to captain Harlequins, whom he left last May.

Volley, who joined Chinnor as an 11-year-old living in Tetsworth, said: “I really enjoyed it. We would sometimes bring boys off the side of the road and ask them to play with us on a Sunday.

“I have got great memories of Dougie Humphries, who used to be my headmaster at Lord Williams’s.

“Calling him Dougie at the weekend, and then going in to school was amazing.

“The spirit of the club has stuck with me since then.”

Volley added: “It was very strange at the start of the season turning out against Chinnor in the first game.

“They have had some highs and some bad lows this season.

“I didn’t want to see them go up and go down again.

“Last time I believe they just weren’t prepared.

“I think they have prepared themselves very well this time, but a few games haven’t gone their way.

“They are the ones they’ve got to win.”

Volley, who now works in business development,was one of seven former Premiership players to join Scottish last summer.

Volley said: “If we weren’t at the top of the table, then questions would be asked.

“To be unbeaten is, I think, a pretty awesome achievement from the squad.”

The most optimistic Chinnor fans will hope that achievement ends on Saturday!