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Article: Edinburgh throw Murrayfield welcoming party for Leinster Four tries gifted away in dire start
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- October 13, 2008
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Edinburgh 16
Leinster 27
THE ABILITY of Scottish rugby players to step up to the big stage
was found wanting on Saturday, and with autumn Test matches now
carrying World Cup-seeding significance, this was not the Heineken
Cup launch national coach Frank Hadden needed a month away from
facing New Zealand.
He may have to wait longer for his exiled players to be
available, but on the showings of Edinburgh and Glasgow at the
weekend Hadden may need to deploy more of those outside these shores
than inside against the All Blacks if there is not a sweeping
improvement this week.
There was an almost tangential feel to the aftermath of
Edinburgh's numbing defeat to Leinster, the talk swinging ...