Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw believes that Gloucester have saved their best rugby this season for the European Rugby Challenge Cup - while he hopes his inside knowledge of the Edinburgh camp may give his side a crucial edge in tomorrow night's final.

The 29-year-old scrum-half was an Edinburgh player between 2006 and 2014, but at The Twickenham Stoop he will be going all out to put one over on the capital club.

"It will be a bit strange at the start of the match playing against my former team and a lot of guys that I know, but once things settle down it will just be like any other big match," Laidlaw said.

"I have played in a lot of big matches before, but a European final is something special. I came to Gloucester to play in these types of matches and regardless of the result tomorrow night it was the right decision for me to move away from Edinburgh when I did.

"I don't think we have been as far away from the top teams in England as our league position perhaps suggests, but we have saved our best rugby for Europe and hopefully we have another strong 80 minutes left in the tank."

Laidlaw will be coming up against many familiar faces, including long-term team mates like Roddy Grant and Tim Visser, tomorrow night and hopes his knowledge of these players can play its part.

He explained: "I know the individual players at Edinburgh better than most down here so that has been handy to be able to flag things up about the way they like to attack and such like."

Meanwhile, Gloucester's Wales international hooker Richard Hibbard is looking forward to his battle with Ross Ford in the front-row.

"He's a big boy, a really good scrummager and always hard to play against. I'm looking forward to that as well as it's always good to have a big challenge in front of you," Hibbard said.

"It's an exciting time, all the hard work, after all the ups and downs, it all comes down to this game and it's down to us to play well first of all and, hopefully, get the result.

"We just want to finish the job now. I don't think that anyone goes into a final just being happy to be there. We're going to go full tilt, I'm personally very excited about playing in it, it's my first European final and I genuinely can't wait.

"All the building blocks that we've been putting in place so far this season, getting the result and lifting the trophy would be the cement between those blocks - another step along the path we're taking as a group."