I just posted my thoughts on the game over on the Weedgie Board
I'll bring them here too, just for the halibut
I've just watched the game the now.
I thought all of our backrow had good games, individually. Ritchie was his usual nuisance self, Watson and Bradbury both carried well - Watson is ridiculously strong in that area.
We were well beaten though. Scarlets, and their Irish lock in particular, just blew us away at the breakdown, where we were sloppy, inaccurate and slow, they kept up momentum with good clean ball.
Two poor lineouts, one in attack and one in defence, were quite likely a fourteen point turnaround.
I don't think Scarlets played particularly well and if I'm scraping for Edinburgh positives it was due in no small part to our defence.
However, we let ourselves down - the second try was down to one of those lineouts previously mentioned. The third try was due to Rizzo earning a red card, you could say the fourth was too as we were out on our feet as all Scarlets had to do was up the tempo and 14 men are going to be left struggling against a good side like them.
Currently I think Berghan is ahead of Nel in form, he has trouble with his foot position, but when he gets it right he is the stronger scrummager. Fordy's darts are better than Rambo's. We need one of our three good looseheads back.
Tovey is a better player than Weir, I hope Cockerill is not being directed in his selection.
I generally have rose coloured specs on when it comes to Scottish sides, but I don't think we are far off - Toolis was a finger nail away from three lineout steals, maybe a couple of tmo reviews would have worked in our favour. This was the league champions pretty much at full strength and at home, they ran out BP winners against 14 men, but it wasn't a hiding by any means, but we really must work on the breakdown.
....and start with SH-C and Tovey