NPR

westport wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:18 am Heriots have some coaching set up now they have all the pieces in place

Head Coach Ben Cairns, Backs Coach Stuart Edwards and Forwards Coach Finlay Gilles, John Hardie as Defence and Collision Coach, assisted by Strength and Conditioning Coach Mark Sinclair, and the medical team led by Sandi Lyall.

Supporting the Heriot’s Rugby development pathway is Head of Rugby Development Sean Lineen, Blues Head Coach Phil Smith and Blues 2nd XV Head Coach Robert McKillop.

westport wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:18 am Heriots have some coaching set up now they have all the pieces in place

Head Coach Ben Cairns, Backs Coach Stuart Edwards and Forwards Coach Finlay Gilles, John Hardie as Defence and Collision Coach, assisted by Strength and Conditioning Coach Mark Sinclair, and the medical team led by Sandi Lyall.

Supporting the Heriot’s Rugby development pathway is Head of Rugby Development Sean Lineen, Blues Head Coach Phil Smith and Blues 2nd XV Head Coach Robert McKillop.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:54 pm I hope both teams are at full strength, or as close to, given that Gilchrist won’t be in the 23.

With a bit of luck Darcy Graham will be back.

charltom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:04 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:54 pm I hope both teams are at full strength, or as close to, given that Gilchrist won’t be in the 23.

With a bit of luck Darcy Graham will be back.

He won't be. He's hosting some beery breakfast that morning.

Unless that's some clever ploy to fool the Irish.

westport wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:18 am Heriots have some coaching set up now they have all the pieces in place

Head Coach Ben Cairns, Backs Coach Stuart Edwards and Forwards Coach Finlay Gilles, John Hardie as Defence and Collision Coach, assisted by Strength and Conditioning Coach Mark Sinclair, and the medical team led by Sandi Lyall.

Supporting the Heriot’s Rugby development pathway is Head of Rugby Development Sean Lineen, Blues Head Coach Phil Smith and Blues 2nd XV Head Coach Robert McKillop.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:11 am I'm beginning to wonder if there is some kind of appeal or non-acceptance going on with Gilchrist that has caused the delay to the announcement of any sanction.

The only mitigation could be that Fagerson's tackle knocked Jelonch sideways and into Gilchrist, but he was still high, still didn't wrap and still smacked him in the puss with a shoulder.

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:27 am

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:11 am I'm beginning to wonder if there is some kind of appeal or non-acceptance going on with Gilchrist that has caused the delay to the announcement of any sanction.

The only mitigation could be that Fagerson's tackle knocked Jelonch sideways and into Gilchrist, but he was still high, still didn't wrap and still smacked him in the puss with a shoulder.

That would be a very daft appeal. The other potential outcome I've seen others discussing is that his ban is longer than Haouas' and they are looking to mitigate the bad PR that will cause but I would expect the SRU to have been very loud about it if that were true. I expect its much more mundane, probably Gilchrist's hearing was postponed for some reason and nobody has thought it worth a press release to clarify it has been rescheduled. He'll be getting 3 games minimum so is out the 6N anyway.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:48 am
Exciting looking team for what is a free hit as the champs cup is gone now.

Jock42 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:55 am Decent looking side, not enough to put away leinster B but you never know.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 12:00 pm

Jock42 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:55 am Decent looking side, not enough to put away leinster B but you never know.

It's coming up four years since Leinster last played us in Edinburgh, we beat them 28 - 11.

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:27 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 12:00 pm

Jock42 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:55 am Decent looking side, not enough to put away leinster B but you never know.

It's coming up four years since Leinster last played us in Edinburgh, we beat them 28 - 11.

As you say in your following post, a strong Leinster team as always. I don't think this Edinburgh have enough to put that side away. In fact, I can see a pretty comfortable 20pt win for the bad guys.

westport wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:45 pm Have they forgotten about Gilcho's sending off?

Dogbert wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:18 pm So 50 points , 8 tries , - and five more points to push us up to 3rd in the table ( well until Ulster play tomorrow ) and yet on the journey home the general consensus was , well , underwhelming ( at least it was dry tonight )- not a classic game for the highlight reel for the season

Zebre tried to make a game of it , but they were poor , and were lucky that that they did not come up against a more efficient Glasgow .

No one on Glasgow played badly , but neither did anyone really excel.

Actually the best part of Glasgow's game tonight was their defence- rally solid , and in the second half especially they frustrated Zebre

Saying that Cummings played the full 90 and was good - Du Prez is now really showing his class , not only in the line out , but in the loose as well , If RG doesn't carry on with Glasgow next season , then we have a perfect replacement

Darge was good , but not great , but looks like a few more games will get him back to where he was pre injury.

Ollie Smith is really coming into his own as a really classy player.

Tom Jordon looks to have been working on his kicking game , and was getting much better distance tonight , which combined with Glasgow's catch & maul l proved pretty devastating.

It wasn't much of a contest tonight- but back to winning ways & points in the bag

Munster away will be a very different proposition

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:25 am

Dogbert wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 11:18 pm So 50 points , 8 tries , - and five more points to push us up to 3rd in the table ( well until Ulster play tomorrow ) and yet on the journey home the general consensus was , well , underwhelming ( at least it was dry tonight )- not a classic game for the highlight reel for the season

Zebre tried to make a game of it , but they were poor , and were lucky that that they did not come up against a more efficient Glasgow .

No one on Glasgow played badly , but neither did anyone really excel.

Actually the best part of Glasgow's game tonight was their defence- rally solid , and in the second half especially they frustrated Zebre

Saying that Cummings played the full 90 and was good - Du Prez is now really showing his class , not only in the line out , but in the loose as well , If RG doesn't carry on with Glasgow next season , then we have a perfect replacement

Darge was good , but not great , but looks like a few more games will get him back to where he was pre injury.

Ollie Smith is really coming into his own as a really classy player.

Tom Jordon looks to have been working on his kicking game , and was getting much better distance tonight , which combined with Glasgow's catch & maul l proved pretty devastating.

It wasn't much of a contest tonight- but back to winning ways & points in the bag

Munster away will be a very different proposition

I agree with all of this, pretty underwhelming for an 8 try win!

I thought Darge looked good over the ball but his tackling was technically poor a number of times, it was like he was trying to bump players rather than tackle with no attempt to wrap. I’m not sure what he was trying to do but it was seemingly deliberate as he did it a number of times.

One more to add to your list above for me is Stafford McDowall at 13. He has been very good this year and really does have the full skill set. He is huge, tackles well, seems defensively sound, can kick, pass and offload and has an eye for a gap. He has all the tools, it’s a shame it has taken so long for him to put the package together after his early breakthrough into the Glasgow team 5 or 6 years ago but I think he has a good chance for full international caps in time.

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:58 pm Edinburgh doing okay against Leinster on the scoreboard at least but Leinster devastating whenever they have the ball. They can more or less make metres at will and the strike plays are so good.

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 6:26 pm

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:58 pm Edinburgh doing okay against Leinster on the scoreboard at least but Leinster devastating whenever they have the ball. They can more or less make metres at will and the strike plays are so good.

And just like that a 5 point game becomes a 25 point game.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:12 pm Yup, unless urged otherwise I don't think I'll watch that, straight to delete.

We can beat Saracens, who are head and shoulder above everyone else in the Gallagher Premiership, but as soon as we go down to second choices in the tight five (and not all of today's players are second choices there) we get absolutely hammered.

There was negative talk about Savala on the league thread, he hasn't kicked on in the way I'd hoped - Ben Healy will be playing a lot of games at ten next season

Dogbert wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 8:59 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:12 pm Yup, unless urged otherwise I don't think I'll watch that, straight to delete.

We can beat Saracens, who are head and shoulder above everyone else in the Gallagher Premiership, but as soon as we go down to second choices in the tight five (and not all of today's players are second choices there) we get absolutely hammered.

There was negative talk about Savala on the league thread, he hasn't kicked on in the way I'd hoped - Ben Healy will be playing a lot of games at ten next season

Fixed it for you , I suspect that the Blair switch project will be dead ,once Edinburgh get a new head coach

Dogbert wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:32 pm True , but I will bet you that Healy next season will be Edinburgh's first choice Ten ,

Kinghorn will be shunted to fullback or wing , and will cover 10 when Healy is unavailable

Slick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:11 am

Dogbert wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:32 pm True , but I will bet you that Healy next season will be Edinburgh's first choice Ten ,

Kinghorn will be shunted to fullback or wing , and will cover 10 when Healy is unavailable

Yes

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:35 am

Slick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:11 am

Dogbert wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:32 pm True , but I will bet you that Healy next season will be Edinburgh's first choice Ten ,

Kinghorn will be shunted to fullback or wing , and will cover 10 when Healy is unavailable

Yes

No.

The guy is third choice at Munster, he has to earn his place at Edinburgh, I really don't know why you lot are assuming he just steps in there without question.

I'm more inclined to agree with mos_eisely_, though it might have been easier to do so if it was easier to type that name.

The current best backline Edinburgh have is Vellacott, Kinghorn, van der Merwe, Dean, Bennett, Graham, Boffelli

I have not seen Healy do anything that approaches what Kinghorn can do - if we want someone who can kick a rugby ball to the touchline then we should have re-employed Weir. We already have a terrific goal kicker in Boff, so why are you assuming Healy is the guy who will make that backline sing?

The best players we have in the centres and back three thrive off broken field and pull-back passes, not chasing a forward pack up the touchline as the flyhallf makes ten metres at a time for the opposition to throw in.

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:39 am

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:35 am

Slick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:11 am

Yes

No.

The guy is third choice at Munster, he has to earn his place at Edinburgh, I really don't know why you lot are assuming he just steps in there without question.

I'm more inclined to agree with mos_eisely_, though it might have been easier to do so if it was easier to type that name.

The current best backline Edinburgh have is Vellacott, Kinghorn, van der Merwe, Dean, Bennett, Graham, Boffelli

I have not seen Healy do anything that approaches what Kinghorn can do - if we want someone who can kick a rugby ball to the touchline then we should have re-employed Weir. We already have a terrific goal kicker in Boff, so why are you assuming Healy is the guy who will make that backline sing?

The best players we have in the centres and back three thrive off broken field and pull-back passes, not chasing a forward pack up the touchline as the flyhallf makes ten metres at a time for the opposition to throw in.

FWIW, that was Leinster's third choice OH out there tonight, until the 4th/5th choice came on. Don't disrespect the third place ranking.