Edinburgh V Trevisio - Mossy's last ever game

Edinburgh Rugby team to play Treviso at Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday 5 May (kick-off 7.30pm): 15 Chris Paterson; 14 Tom Brown, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Matt Scott, 11 Tim Visser; 10 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN, 9 Chris Leck; 1 Allan Jacobsen, 2 Ross Ford, 3 Geoff Cross, 4 Grant Gilchrist, 5 Sean Cox, 6 David Denton, 7 Ross Rennie, 8 Roddy Grant

Substitutes: 16 Andrew Kelly, 17 Kyle Traynor, 18 Jack Gilding, 19 Steven Turnbull, 20 Alan MacDonald, 21 Alex Black, 22 Harry Leonard, 23 Phil Godman

Not available through injury: Mike Blair (shoulder), Ben Cairns (knee), James King (groin), Steven Lawrie (knee), Esteban Lozada (chest)

Good looking team - glad to see he hasn't just rested all the Scotland guys. I do hope however that Roddy Grant and Dave Denton have the wrong numbers assigned to them....would be madness to have Denton at 6 and Grant at 8!

Great to see Mossy ( ) starting - will be sad to see him go

Hopefully get a decent turnout to send the guys off.

Shame Mikey B wont be playing. hopefully hell be down at the touchline though.

15, 16, 17, 18, 20 & 23 - last appearances in an Edinburgh shirt

I really hope we give Trevisio a humping. There's no excuses really - that's pretty much the team of the Heineken cup semi final and we've got the motivation of the departing players to get the guys up for it.

Trevisio are a tough team but I really hope we can end on a high after such a good season in the HK!

I assume all the departing players will be there for a send off, and hope there's a good crowd.

Agreed, no excuses here. There should be HC intensity from Edinburgh in this one, finishing the season with a win.

Roddy Grant at 8 must just be a misprint. If he plays 8 with Denton at 6 then Bradley's goes down several notches in my book. That would be a Moffat-esque sin.

Well how very fitting, Chris Paterson scores a try and is awarded MOM on his last ever game.
Well done Mossy!

Anyhow final score of 44-21 isn't to bad? Didn't see the game, so I'm basing this on the tweets from the Edinburgh feed. 5 tries to 3. Pretty good, plus great to see Visser end his mini try drought!

On the downside though by all accounts the tries Edinburgh conceded were pretty soft? 2 coming when Treviso were a man down is poor.

Still good to get back to wining ways. Bring on next season!

Just read the match report on the BBC and ouch! That must be Edinburgh's worst attandence of the season? A measly 2,855. Granted it was a low end of the table clash and the end of a long season. but I'd have hoped that more people would have turned out to bid farewell to Mossy

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I was at the game and it was still a good atmosphere despite it being a low attendance, the crowd were on their feet on a few occasions to give mossy a send off.
Think what hit Edinburgh today was with the 7s being on in Glasgow which drew some of the regular fans through to that.
Was thoroughly impressed by Chris Paterson after the game in the club house, he was swamped by people asking for photos and autographs but he made sure he spoke to everyone and put a big effort in.

Well done Mossy - a true Scottish rugby legend

I was surprised at the attendance figure - I was at the Scarlets game a few weeks ago and that looked a lot more empty but had a bigger attendance.

Great send off for Mossy though - I grabbed him when just before the final whislte and got a picture with him!!

Can also say that I was shaking his hand when they announced him as MOTM - in true Mossy style he was shaking his head and saying for gods sake that they'd given it to him.

Take away Mossy, and it was actually a very good game! Laidlaw had a fantastic game and was the real MOTM. I also thought De Luca and Scott had a fantastic game, and Visser looked strong.

Great end to the season!

Treviso were quite impressive when they got turnover ball, and looked for mismatches well. There was one point when they had about 4 backs attacking our blindside with only Chunk fordy and Dr Geoff defending it, and if Geoff hadnt put in a brilliant tackle, they would have scored.

Mossys ovation was great, nobody had even noticed that Greig had converted it and that treviso were waiting to kick off again.

Nice to see Mossy get man of the match, but if there hadnt been a bit of sentimentality, Greig wouldve got it for an almost faultless display. His try was a classic case of no one getting a finger on him, and he was involved in just about every other try.

Just goes to show what Edinburgh should have been doing in the league this season. Hopefully they'll take this performance away over the summer and mull over what they want to league to look like next season.

Top half finish should be the minimum accepted.

Laidlaw looks nailed on to be the starting 10 in the summer. Whether you think he'll be there long term or not, he's the starting 10 on merit. He's become a great kicker.

funnyExiledScot wrote:Just goes to show what Edinburgh should have been doing in the league this season. Hopefully they'll take this performance away over the summer and mull over what they want to league to look like next season.

Top half finish should be the minimum accepted.

Laidlaw looks nailed on to be the starting 10 in the summer. Whether you think he'll be there long term or not, he's the starting 10 on merit. He's become a great kicker.

fES, I know what you are saying about Laidlaw as Scotland's starting 10, but for once I'm going to argue that it's not all about form - I'm not convinced that he has the game to play 10 at international level, even tho he is excellent at club level, particularly given the game that Robinson seems to want Scotland to play - he didn't look comfortable during the 6Ns and I'm not sure it's the smartest use of our limited resources at the int'l level

And can you suggest a Scottish 10 who does currently have the game to play at international level?

RDW_Scotland wrote:And can you suggest a Scottish 10 who does currently have the game to play at international level?

The only one that I think will look comfortable as a form 10 playing at that level currently is Weir - I know that you Embra boys will leap up and down about that, RDW, but that's my honest view

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:And can you suggest a Scottish 10 who does currently have the game to play at international level?

The only one that I think will look comfortable as a form 10 playing at that level currently is Weir - I know that you Embra boys will leap up and down about that, RDW, but that's my honest view

Its ok, youre drunk and you dont know what your saying.

IBD, sadly sober as a ... v sober person, but maybe it's time for a swift

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:And can you suggest a Scottish 10 who does currently have the game to play at international level?

The only one that I think will look comfortable as a form 10 playing at that level currently is Weir - I know that you Embra boys will leap up and down about that, RDW, but that's my honest view

Asbo, it depends what game style you want to play. Greeg is better at an attacking style, Meatball better at pinning teams back with his kicking. We all know which AR prefers. Apart from the fact that he sees Jackson as his first choice 10, weird, in my book, he's 3rd choice at Glasgow.

sinner, that seems to be how they have played much of their club games this season, I agree. But Weir is capable of more than that - we saw it at the U20s JWC last summer and in the 'A' game against England back in January - he can play more expansively when told to do so

Tend to agree didn't mean to do Weir down. Think he's a very good player and would like to see him play for Scotland.

Its good to have two competing players - either I will be happy. One Week I thing Greg the next Wee Dunc. Both have had great seasons and neither will let Scotland down.

They both have merits, no doubt, I actually wouldn't lose sleep over either being picked (makes a nice change), but on current form I'd pick Laidlaw. He's slightly sharper on the pass and seems to be full of confidence at the moment. It should also help Matt Scott settle in the 12 jersey as well, having his club colleagues playing inside him. Whether we think Laidlaw, Hogg or Jackson will ultimately end up with the 10 jersey or not, I suspect there's less debate as to the identity of the player who will ultimately settle in the 12 jersey. This will hopefully be the summer where he can win the jersey.

Impressive that the worst front row in the Rabo upped their game v Treviso in a dead rubber -wow !

Just in time to get picked over the summer schizoid!!

Time for Low and Welsh to get a start I think. Watched the highlights last night and the Glasgow front row was storming.

Yeah fES they are tough hombres - not !