Edinburgh v Cardiff Blues, 23 November

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Edinburgh Rugby v Cardiff Blues
Sunday 23 November 2014
KO 16:00
BT Murrayfield

Live on BBC Wicker Man/SC4

Referee: Leo Colgan (IRU, 16th competition game)
Assistant Referees: David Changleng, Stephen Hart (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: Rob Flockhart (SRU)
TMO: Iain Ramage (SRU)

A. Teams:

Edinburgh Rugby

Nick McLennan, Dougie Fife, Sam Beard, Andries Strauss, Tom Brown, Tom Heathcote, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Rory Sutherland, James Hilterbrand, Willem Nel, Ollie Atkins, Ben Toolis, Mike Coman (capt), Roddy Grant, David Denton.

Replacements: Neil Cochrane, Grant Shiells, John Andress, Fraser McKenzie, Tomas Leonardi, Grayson Hart, Greig Tonks, Matt Scott.

Cardiff Blues

Gareth Anscombe, Richard Smith, Adam Thomas, Gavin Evans, Dan Fish, Gareth Davies, Lloyd Williams; Sam Hobbs, Kristian Dacey, Adam Jones (capt), Jarrad Hoeata, Macauley Cook, Josh Turnbull, Ellis Jenkins, Manoa Vosawai.

Replacements: Rhys Williams, Thomas Davies, Scott Andrews, Chris Dicomidis, Josh Navidi, Lewis Jones, Garyn Smith, Geraint Walsh.

B. Form - head to head:

22 Played 22
9 Wins 13
13 Losses 9
0 Draws 0
33 Tries 63
25 Conversions 45
41 Penalties 43
7 Drop Goals 0
359 Points 534
24 Avg. Age 21

C. Form - last season:

Sun 6 Oct 2013
Cardiff Blues 29 - 12 Edinburgh
Rugby Arms Park

Fri 11 Apr 2014
Edinburgh Rugby 22 - 29 Cardiff Blues
Meggetland

IronMike wrote:Dacey is having a good game

He often does, should be first choice ahead of Rees if you ask me

Missed the first half - anyone able to Sun up? 10 points us good but they have had 2 yellows....

RDW_Scotland wrote:Missed the first half - anyone able to Sun up? 10 points us good but they have had 2 yellows....

Discipline was good for the first half an hour, but has fallen off a bit. Sutherland more than matching Adam Jones in the scrum and looks good in the loose. Matt Scott and Tom Brown look really hungry after their lay-offs. Still box kicking anything in our half, but quality has been better than of late.

wales606 wrote:

IronMike wrote:Dacey is having a good game

He often does, should be first choice ahead of Rees if you ask me

He should feel unlucky he is behind Baldwin and Emyr Phillips, Baldwin is useless.

IronMike wrote:

wales606 wrote:

IronMike wrote:Dacey is having a good game

He often does, should be first choice ahead of Rees if you ask me

He should feel unlucky he is behind Baldwin and Emyr Phillips, Baldwin is useless.

I agree, if he gets a run of games he could well be knocking on the Welsh selection door

2 yellows and only 16-6 is a wee bit worrying, but not bad. Pleased with Scott, but think Denton is having a bad game.

Urggg,

More impatience and stupid kicks.

Should have taken the points there, especially with the hooker off!

What do I know!

3 yellow cards now - Edinburgh really should be aiming for a try bp

ANOTHER yellow,

Jesus, this is going to be a long season.

Pitiful effort so far

"This is like an Edinburgh Tram, once you look at something, something else comes along" gotta love BBC ALBA

You have to say the Blues look an absolute shambles. 3 yellow cards now and they did not look interested in defending that play!

Blues are rubbish shocking defence need to ditch Fish

Our kicking game is dire,

We're missing Patchell a lot already

This is a terrible performance by certain individuals

Wow, every Blues kick is an absolute shocker

....and it's another cheap penalty while we have the ball

As demonstrated Fish is poor

IronMike wrote:This is a terrible performance by certain individuals

Worst of the season so far,...and that is really saying something

lol lineout jumper receiving the ball to his knees, not even a contest from The Blues

We can't keep playing Davies, Evans, Turnball, Thomas and Fish and expect to win anything

If Scott had caught that ball!

Fish being subbed early.

Walsh looked decent in his 1 game this season

Awful awful awful

Lloyd Williams had been improving this season, but he needs to be subbed now

Jesus, this is really bad

Edinburgh should go for PT here, Blues doesn't even have a lock in the boiler house

This is going to be an embarrassing scoreline,

again

I dont think the Blues look very interested in playing Rugby today

Another really good try. Great vision from Heathcote and good to see Tom Brown back in action.

Got to push for 4 tries now - first of the season!

It really is not the Blues night is it!

Can't even manage to fall over the line

Can't even work a 2 man overlap

How on earth do we go from being 5m out to being 30m out after a couple of passes

Missed touch

These backs have to go.

Well that won't help us get the bp

Edinburgh could take their entire team off and we still wouldn't be able to cross the line

Cardiff bring Ed down to their level

Given our season so far a win is welcome, but we can't get a try bp in these circumstances then we're really gonna struggle!

Wow.

I really cannot believe just the sheer amount of basic errors the Blues are making, what do they do all week during training?

Another knock on, you have to say well defended Edinburgh though, the game is won but still defending the line like their lives depend on it!

Denton's hand's are going to be his downfall!

What must Thomas be thinking, why spend money on a bunch of players who are not up to it or look interested.

Can't belive I'm down in Edinburgh for the weekend but not at the game. Spent the last 2+ hours freezing my nuts off on George street just to witness the most underwhelming light switch on & firework 'display'. The things I do to make my sister happy.

Still great to see that Edinburgh are well ahead. What's the game been like? Heard the refs been giving his Christmas cards to the Blues early this year!?

After the past few seasons, Ill be more than happy with a convincing win, though obviously a bonus point would be a cherry on top.

Dentons hands! God they are awful!

Can we score against 13 men,

I going to guess no...

2 yellows for Edinburgh - God knows how many we're on for the season now!

Fair enough, Ref has been consistent with his cards