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CHUNK TAKES A FINAL BOW

Edinburgh Rugby: 31 (25) Newportgwentdragons: 24 (10)

Allan 'Chunk' Jacobsen tormented his last tighthead at professional level at Murrayfield this evening.  There was not a dry eye in the house as the legendary loosehead said goodbye after 16 years with the club throughout its various incarnations.  While we have had a blizzard of corporate identities, management changes and wildly fluctuating budgets during that time, one man has stood like a colossus throughout.

On a night of high emotion, which was reminiscent in many ways of the equivalent fixture last season, when Chris Paterson bowed out, the Embra tifosi said goodbye to a man who has been a fixture in the side for more years than anyone cares to remember. Like Peter Clohessy at Munster, Chunk spent his entire professional career at one club.  The idea of moving elsewhere never seemed to occur to him.  At moments of deep depression - which have been pretty frequent for observers of goings-on at Murrayfield this season - sometimes one might

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GUTSY GUNNERS TOUGH IT OUT

Edinburgh Rugby: 14 (6) Ulster: 8 (3)

It's always darkest before the dawn, so the old saying goes.  And it's been pretty dark around here for some time.  But at a chilly Murrayfield this evening, those observers who managed to fight off hypothermia could discern some chinks of light appearing.  The Embra men took high-flying Ulster down in a victory that owed more to sheer willpower than anything else - as well as Paddy Jackson's continued spooky inability to bisect the uprights in the national stadium.

Although Ulster are still at the right end of the table, their recent form has been poor and one could see why this evening. Their play was pretty lateral most of the time and too often the ball went astray in midfield.  They huffed and puffed a fair bit, but rarely really threatened, despite having almost total control of the lineout.  A shame, as in left wing Mike Allen they had the game's most dangerous back and he could have done some damage had he received more decent ball in

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