Edinburgh v Newport Gwent Dragons, 27 November

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Edinburgh Rugby v Newport Gwent Dragons
Friday 27 November 2015
KO: 19:35
BT Murrayfield

Live on BBC Scotland and BBC Wales

Referee: Marius Mitrea (FIR, 44th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Sam Grove-White, Cammy Rudkin (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: Iain Goodall (SRU)
TMO: Jim Yuille (SRU)

A. Head to Head

24 Played 24
11 Wins 12
12 Losses 11
1 Draws 1
476 Points 448

B. Form

11 October 2014
Edinburgh Rugby 24 - 10 Newport Gwent Dragons  

8 May 2015
Newport Gwent Dragons 19 - 5 Edinburgh Rugby

C. Teams

Edinburgh Rugby

[tbc]

Newport Gwent Dragons

[tbc]

Harsh as hell

Very frustrating half, not helped by some strange ref calls.

2 tries would have been a reasonable return for so much dominance.

7 points down after being outplayed for 40 minutes. It could be alot worse.

Surprisingly Shaun Knight is faring better than Stankovic.

Will we try and keep the ball in the 2nd half?

Oh, and that was a clear 2nd try for Nel

Awful game from Mitrea here.

In real time that definitely looked like a try. Still Edinburgh completely dominant and really aught to put some daylight into the score in the second half

Watching the disallowed try again - completely unfathomable decision. How the TMO agreed I don't know!

He doesn't help that he does crawl along the floor a little. I wouldn't say it's an unfathomable decision, it's more marginal than clear cut.

Sooooo frustrating.

Here's a question. Was Nel's dissallowed try any different to kurundrani's try against Scotland in the World Cup?

I cannot see how you can say the disallowed try was harsh. He went to ground and then raised back up off the ground to propel himself forward. That's a double movement all day long. Reach out and place it yes, but raise your body back up off the floor to get yourself further forward to allow you to place it: no, no, no! Definite double movement. I can only assume you lot either a) do not know the double movement rules or b) are slightly biased

Risca Rev wrote:He doesn't help that he does crawl along the floor a little. I wouldn't say it's an unfathomable decision, it's more marginal than clear cut.

It regularly happens throughout any game - you get tackled and you propel your body to get into position. You surely should be allowed to reach out to score

Griff wrote:I cannot see how you can say the disallowed try was harsh. He went to ground and then raised back up off the ground to propel himself forward. That's a double movement all day long. Reach out and place it yes, but raise your body back up off the floor to get yourself further forward to allow you to place it: no, no, no! Definite double movement. I can only assume you lot either a) do not know the double movement rules or b) are slightly biased

Disagree - if he did raise his body it was incredibly marginal

Yes reach out straight away, not move via your arms and knees.

We're needing to lift it - we're not far away from being in trouble this game

You are far away. I don't think we are offering anything, that break aside.

Momentum is an amazing thing in rugby though!

He won't be back on. Which means Phil Price time

Harsh on the loosehead - it was the other side of the scrum getting smashed!

Surely that pass was forward???

Once again we have a real inability to convert pressure into points!

Its just ridiculous that this is the third season in a row Solomans has yapped on about how the backline is developing, but then we get served up this display of clueless attacking play.

Harsh on the Dragons there - I thought we messed up the scrum.

Means we're uncontested now too!

If they cannot score here it will be a joke

No penalty for them coming in the side and pulling it down??

Hmmmmm.

That's a scrum man shaming

fair play Edinburgh you should be fuming at this ref

This is a game that should be over. Yes, the ref has been beyond incompetent, but we have to getting 5 points from these sorts of games. Alas I fear we could contrive to blow this.

Think Fairbrother could've gone one.

Anyway, this will help us somewhat.

How on earth do they consistently find ways to screw up scoring opportunities!?!?!?!?!

Red button must be behind. Wouldn't have taken Griffiths off for TRT

Wouldn't surprise me af all if we don't score at all while we're men up

So Edinburgh had to bring on a hooker playing at loosehead earlier this season but Dragons can't get the tighthead covering loosehead?

We had a 4 on 1 and still couldn't score!!!

Feck me we made hard work of that!

tbf that passage was comical. How much space do you need?

Please be a try!!!

So. Any other teams have props that out score the wingers???

This cannot continue. I have never seen a team so unable to get over the tryline as this. Its utterly pathetic

Harsh yellow

Very harsh

Harsh yellow.

If we don't get 4 tries against 12 men we really should just give up as a professional rugby team.

The Edinburgh backs couldn't score in one of the local saunas...

If Edinburgh don't get 5 points here!

RDW_Scotland wrote:Harsh yellow.

If we don't get 4 tries against 12 men we really should just give up as a professional rugby team.

If ever there was a safer bet in sport, its that Edinburgh wont score 4 tries.

Why are we box kicking when 2 men up???

This performance is making me absolutely furious as an Edinburgh fan

This performance pretty much sums up Solomons' reign as coach

Stop kicking the ball away when we're chasing tries!!!!

And another card!

What's the most yellows ever given in one game at top level rugby?

But Edinburgh will still not score. The commentator was spot on when he seemed bemused that Edinburgh have no sense of urgency about them. Its bewildering that they dont seem to care about getting 4 tries