EDINBURGH coach Richard Cockerill was left frustrated and disappointed in the end at Murrayfield yesterday, despite his immense pride in his team’s display against Munster.
AWAY victories, at this stage in European Cup rugby, are few and far between. If one team know how to win on the road it is Munster. Yesterday at Murrayfield, the Irish unit – often second best in this epic contest, but in their 18th quarter-final - got ahead late on, staved off a breathless Edinburgh onslaught which took that match deep in to the red, and then celebrated with the red army that had descended from Limerick.
HIS rookie season in the British Touring Car Championship is behind him, and he has left his trusty MG behind as well. Now all Rory Butcher has to try to do this campaign is leave the rest of the grid in his wake.
Glasgow Warriors kept their ambition of a place in the knock-out stages of this season’s PRO14 firmly on track at Scotstoun with victory over Toyota Cheetahs, so keeping their advantage over Munster at the top of Conference A. But, it was a performance which frustrated Glasgow coach Dave Rennie.
IT has been a week of celebration in Wales, a win over England kicking things off and keeping Welsh hopes, dreams and ambitions of a Six Nations title, a Grand Slam and Triple crown very much alive, while Friday was St David’s Day.
HAD things panned out differently for Sam Johnson, he could still have been hanging around the Ipswich rugby club in Queensland, playing on a Sunday after a couple of nights prepping on the pop, and may even have ended up a carpenter like his big brother.
There cannot have been many more rewarding away days for Glasgow Warriors than the one enjoyed at the Stadio Lanfranchi in Parma yesterday.
GLASGOW Warriors produced a bonus-point victory in Cardiff last night, scoring five tries in total. Yet this was such an absorbing and pulsating end-to-end match, that the Warriors were left desperately holding on at the death just to take the victory, an ending coach Dave Rennie wasn’t particularly happy with.
EVEN if the Scotland team were to make a quick detour via Disneyland Paris en route to the Stade de France on Saturday, chances are Edinburgh’s Blair Kinghorn would stay on the bus, knowing the rollercoaster ride he has experienced in the first three weeks of the Six Nations had been more of a white-knuckle ride than any mechanical contraption could offer.
AS you might expect from someone who less than 12 months ago was named both Glasgow Warriors’ Player and Young Player of the Year, George Horne has had a key role to fulfil with the Scotstoun side this year as they seek success on two fronts.
