Friday Knight Lights wrote:JDCSR wrote:I think it just came down to both him and Boyle being very promising prospects and it getting to the point where we were barely going to give any gametime to one let alone both. And Boyle being preferred to keep on at the time.
Massive credit to Darge for what he's done at Glasgow, Gordon is nae bad and takes some doing to keep him out the side.
I wonder if Boyle could be as good if he had a half dozen starts.
Boyle has played and never really shown too much. Whereas Darge was motm on his first match for Glasgow! Maybe Boyle will one day be a great player. But Darge was immediately obviously a special player. I agree Tom Gordon is great but he's miles away from Darge. It's hard to see anything but pretty awful management from the Edinburgh coaches at the time.
Boyle was a better player for the under 20s, though as above Darge was coming back from a bad injury and was played at 8 to accommodate Boyle at 7.
Gordon also isn't miles away from Darge, the former was by some distance Glasgow's best player last season and Darge has had to be bloody good to keep him out.
Fair play to Darge, he's been superb and it certainly looks a clanger from Edinburgh for letting him go but would he have got any more gametime here than Boyle has with Watson, Crosbie and Ritchie all options at 7? Come on now.
I'd call it great management from the SRU making the call that got him into Glasgow's 7 shirt. Part of being the bigger brother is that you sometimes have to share your things.