Pro12: Benetton Treviso v Edinburgh Rugby 12th Sept

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Benetton Treviso   v   Edinburgh Rugby
Saturday 12th September 2015,
KO 16:10 GMT
Stadio Monigo

Referee: Gary Conway (IRFU, 4th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Giuseppe Vivarini, Claudio Blessano
Citing Commissioner: Stefano Marrama (FIR)
TMO: Carlo Damasco (FIR)

Apparently being shown on TV – RAI…nope me neither
TV RAI

Treviso form

Last 3 Matches
5/9/15 Munster 18 - 13 Treviso
16/5/15 Treviso 13 - 17 Scarlets
8/5/15 Leinster 10 - 0 Treviso

Edinburgh form

Last 3 Matches
4/9/15 Edinburgh 16 - 9 Leinster
16/5/15 Edinburgh 23 - 36 Leinster
8/5/15 Dragons 19 - 5 Edinburgh


Teams:

Treviso

15. Jayden Hayward
14 Ludovico Nitoglia
13 Tommaso Iannone
12 Andrea Pratichetti
11 Simone Ragusi
10 Sam Christie
9 Chris Smylie

1 Alberto De Marchi
2 Roberto Santamaria
3 Rupert Harden
4 Duncan Naude
5 Tom Palmer
6 Marco Barbini
7 Dean Budd
8 Robert Barbieri

Replacements
Luca Bigi
Matteo Zanusso
Simone Ferrar
Filippo Gerosa
Jean-Francis Montauriol
Braam Steyn
Alberto Lucchese
James Ambrosini

Edinburgh

1 Sutherland
2 Cochrane
3 Andress
4 McKenzie
5 Toolis
6 Du Preez
7 Grant (C)
8 Manu

9 Kennedy
10 Burleigh
11 Hoyland
12 Beard
13 Dean
14 Fife
15 Tonks

Subs - Turner, Dell, Berghan, Toolis, Watson, Fowles, Johnston, Cuthbert

Highlights from last night, with the funniest background music you are every likely to hear in a rugby highlights video!

https://youtu.be/5CYqkO-bFlo



Some very good tries from Edinburgh - Hoyland's was very well taken. Visser-esque!

It's a real shame we didn't get the 4th.

In Edinburgh's defence, it was 25 degrees and very humid apparently - difficult conditions to be thrown into with little preperation for it.

Wow - Manu's offload for the second try was amazing.

In true Bru tradition, I have watched this video with the sounds off and the Benny Hill theme tune playing in the background. It helped.

That would be quite funny but what I am having difficulty with is why you have a recording of the Benny Hill theme to hand.
Anyhoo, the backs looked quite good (I only watched the highlights to the 3rd try) but, like the unwashed ones, the scrum does seem to be struggling.
For those of you old enough, Hoyland reminds me of Iwan Tukalo in that you can tell that a sidestep is on its way but actually doing anything about it is nigh impossible.

InjuredYetAgain wrote:That would be quite funny but what I am having difficulty with is why you have a recording of the Benny Hill theme to hand.
Anyhoo, the backs looked quite good (I only watched the highlights to the 3rd try) but, like the unwashed ones, the scrum does seem to be struggling.
For those of you old enough, Hoyland reminds me of Iwan Tukalo in that you can tell that a sidestep is on its way but actually doing anything about it is nigh impossible.

Tukalo - an RHS FP! He was rival wingers with my dad at one point don't you know. I say rivals, he went on to play for Scotland....

Another 'fun fact' about tukalo - he is Lee Jones' mentor!

InjuredYetAgain wrote:That would be quite funny but what I am having difficulty with is why you have a recording of the Benny Hill theme to hand.

If you've worked in a law job for a while, it's whatever you need to get through each day, really.

RDW_Scotland wrote:

InjuredYetAgain wrote:That would be quite funny but what I am having difficulty with is why you have a recording of the Benny Hill theme to hand.
Anyhoo, the backs looked quite good (I only watched the highlights to the 3rd try) but, like the unwashed ones, the scrum does seem to be struggling.
For those of you old enough, Hoyland reminds me of Iwan Tukalo in that you can tell that a sidestep is on its way but actually doing anything about it is nigh impossible.

Tukalo - an RHS FP! He was rival wingers with my dad at one point don't you know. I say rivals, he went on to play for Scotland....

Another 'fun fact' about tukalo - he is Lee Jones' mentor!

I am not sure entirely why but, going back about 10 years, Tukalo pitched up at a game we had against an Irish touring side. Even though he had stopped playing many years before, he was still the fittest, fastest (and best) player on the park by MILES.
Did he play with your dad, RDW? Tuks was in 6th year when I was in 1st year so he isn't that much older than me.

I think he was a youngster when my dad was an established FP for Royal High - they played on opposite wings.

I remember a few years ago me and my old man were at an Edinburgh game, and it was the season after the HK run where Lee Jones was truly, truly awful for a long period of time. Tukalo came over to say hello and kept going on about how talented and amazing Jones was - he was having a rotten game so was difficult not to laugh!

Gotta love Tukalo.

I don't recall oor Iwan being all that fast, but then again, if Kenny Logan is our benchmark...

George Carlin wrote:I don't recall oor Iwan being all that fast, but then again, if Kenny Logan is our benchmark...

Trust me, playing with me and the guys I played with, he (and, in fact, climate change) looked fast