Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

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Re: Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

Postby djphilp on Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:36 am

Friday Knight Lights wrote:I thought it was a good performance against a bad side but you can only play who is in front of you.

Quite like the look of Van Der Walt. Good distribution, decent kicking game - looks handy.


Thought Van Der Walt looked a wee bit short of pace in the above highlights, but haven't seen him live yet so can anyone who has shed any light on whether it is an issue or not?
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Re: Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

Postby Tichtheid on Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:47 am

To be fair to Van der Walt it was Ben Ransom who out paced him and he's a bit of a flier, Ransom did well for their second try too.

Thanks for the highlights, I wonder if the full game will find its way onto yachoob at some point?


From those highlights it looks like we can be effective playing in an unstructured situation. If we can retain that and fix it to the strengths we had under Solly, a tight five that can hold its own against most if not anyone in the league, we could be on to something.
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Re: Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

Postby royc on Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:58 am

Thanks Hil for highlights.

Can't judge a lot from the brief flashes, but most encouraged by the hint of how the backs were playing. It looked quite different from recent games, less passing side to side and trying to punch through the middle, instead, when there was nothing on, laying the ball back or putting in a grubber, all at speed and with very good interplay, and suddenly there's a heap of tries on the scoreboard. Great stuff. Would those who saw the game concur?

Two lovely tries through the middle, Burleigh's check-dummy-step-swerve was a thing of beauty and the build-up for his second try, which started with a kick through by SHC and a great recovery and pass back from Dean (?), was a touch of class.

The Not-Nots' defence looked rather poor and they were caught out by the bounce of the ball on three of these tries (and I gather Rasolea's one later), but Edinburgh's speed of follow-up punished them and will punish better teams too if they can keep it up.
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Re: Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

Postby The Feral Goat on Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:19 am

Can't judge a lot from the brief flashes, but most encouraged by the hint of how the backs were playing. It looked quite different from recent games, less passing side to side and trying to punch through the middle, instead, when there was nothing on, laying the ball back or putting in a grubber, all at speed and with very good interplay, and suddenly there's a heap of tries on the scoreboard. Great stuff. Would those who saw the game concur?


Yes, definitely more variation in our attack a lot of it coming off of Burleigh at 12 on the back of quick ball from the forwards our back row were totally dominant Watson must have bagged a few turnovers again and Bradbury and Mata battered them all match. Even though SHC had some iffy passes again I thought in general he was quick to the breakdown and looked to move the ball VDW tidied up and moved the ball well.

Two lovely tries through the middle, Burleigh's check-dummy-step-swerve was a thing of beauty and the build-up for his second try, which started with a kick through by SHC and a great recovery and pass back from Dean (?), was a touch of class.


Yes was Deans pass, he has had a few classy try scoring passes this season, fairly certain that actually started with SHC taking a quick tap penalty around our own 22 and he was involved 2 or 3 times before the kick through, I think I recall a bit of luck at one stage where the move almost broke down but it was finished really well.

Thought Hoylands kick for Graham's try was really well executed as well.
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Re: Edinburgh v London Irish 09Dec17 1935

Postby macdone on Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:35 pm

How did Scott Steele and their 12 Johnny Williams look (he´s SQ)?
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