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v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Tichtheid on Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:17 pm

Edinburgh Rugby team to face Connacht at DAM Health Stadium in Round 13 of the United Rugby Championship
Friday 4 March (kick-off 7.35pm) – live on Premier Sports

15. Henry Immelman (11)
14. Ramiro Moyano (7)
13. James Lang (11)
12. Chris Dean (113)
11. Emiliano Boffelli (9)
10. Blair Kinghorn (110) VICE-CAPTAIN
9. Henry Pyrgos (60) CAPTAIN

1. Boan Venter (20)
2. Dave Cherry (49) VICE-CAPTAIN
3. Angus Williams (8)
4. Pierce Phillips (5)
5. Glen Young (5)
6. Ben Muncaster (7)
7. Connor Boyle (15)
8. Mesulame Kunavula (19)

Replacements
16. Adam McBurney (5)
17. Harrison Courtney (3)
18. Lee-Roy Atalifo (19)
19. Jamie Campbell*
20. Rudi Brown*
21. Ben Vellacott (12)
22. Jaco van der Walt (79)
23. Matt Currie (8)

Unavailable due to injury: Luan de Bruin, Luke Crosbie, Nick Haining, Damien Hoyland, James Johnstone, Viliame Mata, Jamie Ritchie, Marshall Sykes, Ben Toolis

International selection: Mark Bennett, Magnus Bradbury, Darcy Graham, Grant Gilchrist, Jamie Hodgson, Stuart McInally, WP Nel, Pierre Schoeman, Hamish Watson
*Edinburgh Rugby debut


The injury list grows ever longer
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Tichtheid on Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:33 pm

Connacht have gone for a pretty experienced selection

Number/Name/Caps
15. John Porch (51)
14. Peter Sullivan (20)
13. Sammy Arnold (32)
12. Tom Daly (56)
11. Alex Wootton (30)
10. Jack Carty (172) (C)
9. Caolin Blade (143)

1. Jordan Duggan (25)
2. Dave Heffernan (157)
3. Jack Aungier (25)
4. Oisin Dowling (19)
5. Leva Fifita (9)
6. Cian Prendergast (23)
7. Conor Oliver (34)
8. Paul Boyle (69)

Replacements
16. Shane Delahunt (116)
17. Tietie Tuimauga (7)
18. Dominic Robertson-McCoy (71)
19. Niall Murray (29)
20. Abraham Papali’i (20)
21. Kieran Marmion (201)
22. Tom Farrell (72)
23. Jarrad Butler (89)
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby liveinhope on Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:12 pm

Pretty sure that's a 6:2 split for Connacht (Butler's a back row I recall?) If so making it even tougher where we only have two back five (scrum) replacements and both are youngsters called up from Academy or Super 6 I presume.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby robdinsdale on Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:22 pm

liveinhope wrote:Pretty sure that's a 6:2 split for Connacht (Butler's a back row I recall?) If so making it even tougher where we only have two back five (scrum) replacements and both are youngsters called up from Academy or Super 6 I presume.


Butler is a 7 and a pretty decent one, he was usually Connacht captain up until this season. Campbell and Brown are both in their first year with our academy - Brown is only 18 from the looks of things, he's not even played much Scotland u20s yet.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Friday Knight Lights on Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:28 pm

This would be a very good win. Can't see us beating a quality Connacht side.

Great for Dean to be back from the cold.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Trophyhunter on Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:02 pm

Very experienced, strong backline for Edinburgh and decent starting pack . Challenge for young guys off the bench is to keep to the basics and in the excitement of the occasion is not give away silly penalties . Good to see Dean back and hopefully kick on beyond the Potential he showed a few years ago.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby liveinhope on Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:08 pm

This really is a vital fixture.After three successive defeats we just have to win this-three more away fixtures follow!
Six international backs starting (though surely back home on our "fast" new surface Vellacott should be starting?) and a pretty good starting pack we should have just about enough given we are at home.
Pity Sykes looks to have been injured whilst training with Scotland last week.Be needing the likes of him and Crosbie (any ideas on his injury?) back for the Glasgow fixture in a fortnight.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby robdinsdale on Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:23 pm

Friday Knight Lights wrote:This would be a very good win. Can't see us beating a quality Connacht side.

Great for Dean to be back from the cold.


Connacht are decent but we are playing them at home at least.

I'm a bit surprised to see Pyrgos starting, but we might need his leadership qualities with that pack and a fairly callow back row.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby The Feral Goat on Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:36 pm

robdinsdale wrote:Butler is a 7 and a pretty decent one, he was usually Connacht captain up until this season. Campbell and Brown are both in their first year with our academy - Brown is only 18 from the looks of things, he's not even played much Scotland u20s yet.


Per the club site at 18, rudi brown is 6ft 4 and 110kg :eek:

Even allowing for some speculative club stats that is close to the same size as Bradbury.

Suspect it will be a tough game but looking forward to getting back to the DAM.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Tichtheid on Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:27 pm

The Feral Goat wrote:
robdinsdale wrote:Butler is a 7 and a pretty decent one, he was usually Connacht captain up until this season. Campbell and Brown are both in their first year with our academy - Brown is only 18 from the looks of things, he's not even played much Scotland u20s yet.


Per the club site at 18, rudi brown is 6ft 4 and 110kg :eek:

Even allowing for some speculative club stats that is close to the same size as Bradbury.
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The club stats say he only turned 18 in December and

"Whilst he attends Merchiston Castle School, he is currently part of the Edinburgh Rugby academy, playing in partnership with FOSROC Super6 side Watsonians."

He cannae still be at the school and getting picked for Edinburgh, surely?
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby TheSmidge on Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:15 am

Tichtheid wrote:
The Feral Goat wrote:
robdinsdale wrote:Butler is a 7 and a pretty decent one, he was usually Connacht captain up until this season. Campbell and Brown are both in their first year with our academy - Brown is only 18 from the looks of things, he's not even played much Scotland u20s yet.


Per the club site at 18, rudi brown is 6ft 4 and 110kg :eek:

Even allowing for some speculative club stats that is close to the same size as Bradbury.
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The club stats say he only turned 18 in December and

"Whilst he attends Merchiston Castle School, he is currently part of the Edinburgh Rugby academy, playing in partnership with FOSROC Super6 side Watsonians."

He cannae still be at the school and getting picked for Edinburgh, surely?


In the Scottish system, someone turning 18 in December would've entered education in August 2008 when under 5 and left in summer 2021 when 17.5. Theoretically, he could've been held back a year when he started (unlikely, as normally only those whose 5th birthdays after in the Jan or Feb after starting school have that option) or somehow has missed/repeated a year. Chances are that something isn't quite right.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby doedin on Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:45 am

Does Merchie not offer English A levels and Baccalaureat as well though which might mean he is still in full time education?
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby TheSmidge on Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:14 pm

doedin wrote:Does Merchie not offer English A levels and Baccalaureat as well though which might mean he is still in full time education?


Yes, I think they do actually. Under the English system, someone turning 18 in December would be in their final year of school.
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby Tichtheid on Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:54 pm

We had December birthdays in our year at school they would have been 18 if they'd been doing a Sixth Year Studies or extra highers in the sixth year, mine is in April, so I was still at school at 18

It was in the old black and white days right enough
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Re: v Connacht Friday 4th of March

Postby liveinhope on Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:57 pm

I posted in the wrong section earlier but can assure you than in private (public) schools both in Scotland and England there have always been pupils in their final year who have been pretty close to 19 when they leave.I'd bet Brown won't by any means be the oldest pupil in his year by possibly 3/4 months.
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