Tichtheid wrote:The thing about not playing Shiel now is that in a couple of months, a rolled ankle and tweaked hamstring and Shiel has to start our quarter final play off, or the game that will get us to a quarter final play and secure Big Cup rugby next year, and he'll be doing so with only a handful of minutes game time.
This is incredibly short-sited of Cockers, imo. I've been wholly behind him so far, but we need to get Shiel up to speed, he could well be knocking at the door for Scotland selection in future if he gets a run
How did Shiel go against Agen away? Since making his first Edinburgh start in that game he's gone:
unused sub
unused sub
not selected
unused sub
not selected
not selected
21 mins off the bench (v Kings)
22 mins off the bench (v Bordeaux)