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BBC News
02-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Bulls 42-33 Edinburgh: Three things we learned
Edinburgh find courage to end season with prideSean Everitt talked about a fast start and a strong finish. He got both of those, but it was the bit in the middle that saw the Bulls pull out of the fight Edinburgh showed to get ahead and then set up a tense-ish finale was were able to pick themselves up off the canvas after the three-try blitz that would have left others floored. Tries from Ewan Ashman and Wes Goosen made a game of it, but they just couldn't climb the only they could show that hunger, fight and desire in every game, they wouldn't have had to face the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld - one of the hardest away days in the guns offer hope for next seasonThere was a moment in the final 10 minutes that threatened to swing the game back Edinburgh's Price's up-and-under was chased by Harry Paterson, who smashed Canan Moodie back. Liam McConnell, the 20-year-old back-row just off the bench, cleaned out the ruck. Ben Muncaster followed to win the ruck young players, all with huge futures, combining to set up a potential game-swinging moment. It didn't quite work out like that - the subsequent line-out was turned over by the Bulls - but it showed there is hope for the Dave Cherry away, promising hooker Paddy Harrison will get even more game time after a breakthrough season. Freddy Douglas, Muncaster and Liam McConnell will be knocking on the door. Tom Currie, McAlpine was on the bench for this one, with fellow scrum-half Hector Patterson also highly regarded. No scrum-half replacement will be sought for the outgoing shows captain's qualities againIn the absence of co-captains Grant Gilchrist and Ben Vellacott, both missing through injury, it was once again Magnus Bradbury's turn to wear the is now a long time since he was stripped off the captaincy due to an off-field incident, aged just he delivered another stellar performance with the weight of responsibility having no burden at bungled one restart, which did prove costly, but spoke well after the game about how Edinburgh have had a tough season, but how they should be a top-four ambitions? Sure. But if he can lift his team-mates to play at his level, there's no reason why they shouldn't be aiming that high.
BBC News
02-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Edinburgh boosted by return of five regulars for European semi-final
Edinburgh are able to welcome back five key players for the Challenge Cup semi-final clash with Bath on Saturday, as they aim to make their first European final since stalwarts Pierre Schoeman, Ewan Ashman, Grant Gilchrist, and Jamie Ritchie all return to the forward pack, while full-back Wes Goosen is the only change in the return allows Harry Paterson - who signed a new two-year deal earlier this week - to move to the the team that drew with Zebre in Parma last weekend, try-scoring prop Boan Venter drops to the bench, as do hooker Paddy Harrison and back-rower Ben lock Marshall Sykes - who was part of Scotland's Six Nations squad - returns from injury to take up a place among the van der Merwe remains out with injury, joining Emiliano Boffelli, Dave Cherry, Luke Crosbie, Paul Hill, Ben Vellacott and Cammy Goosen, Graham, Currie, Lang, Paterson; Thompson, Price; Schoeman, Ashman, Rae, Skinner, Gilchrist (c), Ritchie, Watson, Harrison, Venter, Sebastian, Sykes, Muncaster, Shiel, Healy, Tuipulotu.
BBC News
25-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Same problems arise as Edinburgh lose to Benetton'
At the end of September 2024, following defeat to Bulls, I wrote that Edinburgh required a specialist lineout coach as inaccuracies in that area went a long way to us losing that forward six months and the very same problem has bitten us again as both our hookers failed to get pass marks for their darts against Benetton and their inability to link with the jumpers consistently has cost us wasn't all their fault, but if you are failing with around half your lineouts then praise or prizes may elude we move on from that particular issue, I have a further question. Who was calling the lineouts? They might want to consider that if you've brought a sub on at hooker that perhaps the first thing you ask him to do, a throw to the tail (probably the hardest throw to get right) might not have been the best in September I also criticised our over-dependence on one-out passes and that also haunted us against Benetton. Just after Ewan Ashman's try, Ross McCann made a great break. He could probably have reached out and scored but instead the ball was recycled and we went through 10 phases of one-out passes on the Benetton try line yet failed to score. If we had done better there then we would have had a two-score lead and that may have made a huge difference to the final factors, or excuses if you prefer, that contributed include a ridiculous yellow card for Ben Muncaster in the first half. A contact so fleeting it could have been mistaken for an air ability to include some players who had been Six Nations regulars such as Simone Ferrari, Ignacio Brex, Tommaso Menoncello and Italian captain Michele Lamaro off the bench. Even the introduction of 40-year-old Agustin Creevy was a point of difference for rest protocol for Scotland players is not a new thing but we still struggle to deal with these absences. We started the weekend in seventh and a good win could have seen us in fifth. Instead we are 11th and our race to the eight could be over before you can say boo to a Smith can be found at The Burgh Watch, external
BBC News
23-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Your views on mixed fortunes across Scottish rugby weekend
We asked for your views on Scotland women's Six Nations win over Wales, plus a URC victory for Glasgow against Munster and Edinburgh's defeat at what some of you said:EdinburghGraham: A sloppy display from Edinburgh. Ewan Ashman a nightmare at the lineout. Limited pack aggression and few lines breaks from the backs. Couldn't score from two feet said it all. Warriors second team is streets ahead of this I thought now that the Six Nations was over, we'd seen the end of the ridiculous refereeing against Scotland. Seems not though as the Edinburgh game had two TMO checks against Edinburgh but none for tackles made by Benetton and several forward passes that were ignored. Enough is enough. Time for SRU to call it out and hold officials to Very disappointed with Edinburgh's display. Yet again we are playing a safe and unimaginative game. Set-piece, high kick, repeat. The lineouts were truly terrible. Our hookers need to learn to throw in or step aside. We did not deserve to win. Let's find another coach for Edinburgh Deep in my heart I knew they would choke and loose. Typical of Edinburgh!Glasgow's winGeoff: Great win but not the best performance. The weakness at 10 must highlight the folly of losing Tom Jordan!Keith: Good result against the Wow what a match, Glasgow had to dig deep, but it always feels nice to beat Munster, especially as I live in Ireland. It's a result that keeps us above the wacky races of the top eight in the URC. Well done Glasgow showed their winning mentality to get over the line in the end. It's difficult to have any sort of continuity with so many players missing. Glasgow should thank Gregor Townsend for not selecting Johnny Mathews or Nathan McBeth. The later really made a difference in the scrum as well as his women's winStu: The bunker review system is in desperate need of clarifications. Two yellow cards is a full red card and cannot be replaced according to the laws but apparently if it's referred to the bunker for foul play, it becomes a 20-minute red? No wonder fans and players were confused when Wales were allowed to go back up to 15 Hopefully the Women's XV can be the first professional Scottish team to win in Paris. Scotland won during Covid with no pressure from fans in the cauldron of the Stade de France. Still waiting in my opinion.
