Blues v Edinburgh

:00:32. > :00:37.A brand-new season and a brand-new ambition. Whatever way you look at

:00:38. > :00:41.it, Edinburgh had a poor one last time around. Promising start but a

:00:42. > :00:49.stuttering finished meant they finished ninth in the Pro12. Alan

:00:50. > :00:55.Solomons' men hope to do better this time around. Good to have a clue

:00:56. > :01:00.with us. Brand-new season and live rugby on BBC Two Scotland. Also

:01:01. > :01:06.extended highlights of defending champions Connacht against 2014

:01:07. > :01:12.champions Glasgow. Look away now if you don't want to know the result.

:01:13. > :01:19.Interesting reading indeed from a Scottish point of view. Andy Nichol,

:01:20. > :01:22.former Scotland scrum-half is here again, and Finn Russell, current

:01:23. > :01:27.Glasgow and Scotland stand-off. The last time we saw you in eight ask a

:01:28. > :01:32.shirt was against Connacht in the semifinal of the Pro12. A horrible

:01:33. > :01:37.head injury, played 53 seconds but you are looking fit. Will we see you

:01:38. > :01:43.soon in a shirt again? It was about 56 seconds! Did some contact,

:01:44. > :01:49.feeling good now. Hopefully back within the next few weeks. I think

:01:50. > :01:53.he went missing for three seconds. Great to see you back. Probably as

:01:54. > :01:57.bad an injury as we have looked at in the last number of seasons. Great

:01:58. > :02:03.that he will be back in the next few weeks. Talking about this game for

:02:04. > :02:08.Edinburgh. They had a great start last season. Against Glasgow in the

:02:09. > :02:13.1872 cup, they looked fantastic but fell away at the end of the season.

:02:14. > :02:18.Ninth isn't good enough. It isn't. And with the two Italian size, that

:02:19. > :02:27.second bottom. Only the Dragons below them. For a well funded team,

:02:28. > :02:32.they have good players. The forwards, Dickinson, Ford, WP Nel,

:02:33. > :02:37.Hardy, that's a really strong foundation that they should have.

:02:38. > :02:41.They have lost Matt Scott this year. They have made some interesting

:02:42. > :02:45.signings. Duncan Weir has come from Glasgow. Glenn Bryce, and a couple

:02:46. > :02:49.of centres today that we don't know too much about. They are unknown

:02:50. > :02:54.behind the pack, but in that pack, they are very strong. You know

:02:55. > :02:58.Duncan Weir playing at Glasgow for many years as a number ten. You

:02:59. > :03:02.shared that shirt for Glasgow and Scotland. What will he bring it

:03:03. > :03:08.about Edinburgh team? Duncan is a great player. I learned a lot from

:03:09. > :03:14.him. I came a few years at after him and it was great to learn and watch

:03:15. > :03:19.from him. He's back out there and doing his thing. Edinburgh threw it

:03:20. > :03:24.out quite a lot against Newcastle, so we will see what happens against

:03:25. > :03:32.Cardiff on the 4G pitch. Any team needs a good stand-off to run the

:03:33. > :03:37.game. Edinburgh don't really have that, they used to have a 12 playing

:03:38. > :03:40.a ten position. Now Duncan Weir is in there he can manage the game

:03:41. > :03:43.which they don't do particularly well. With that foundation of the

:03:44. > :03:48.pack they've got, I think Duncan could have a great season because he

:03:49. > :03:56.will have a platform. This guy was in and out the team, and in the

:03:57. > :04:02.Scotland team. Having a player of that quality with Jason Toby out,

:04:03. > :04:06.Duncan will get the nod every week. They have managed the process very

:04:07. > :04:10.well at Glasgow, changing on an almost weekly basis. But a stand-off

:04:11. > :04:16.playing every week, you get into a rhythm. It starts to flow. I think

:04:17. > :04:20.Duncan will really enjoy having a run of games to really set a mark

:04:21. > :04:25.down there at Edinburgh. It's a big move along the motorway, he's a

:04:26. > :04:29.proud Glaswegian, and he's now playing for Edinburgh. It's a very

:04:30. > :04:37.astute signing for Edinburgh. We can head down to Cardiff now. It should

:04:38. > :04:43.be a cracker. We'll Duncan Weir start off with a flyer? Edinburgh

:04:44. > :04:50.started very well last season. We can join Colin Gregor and John BT.

:04:51. > :04:57.COMMENTATOR: Should be a great game. It looks lovely but it has been

:04:58. > :05:04.bucketing all day at Cardiff, the pitch is soaking wet. The Edinburgh

:05:05. > :05:16.front row, all internationals. And in the backs, Duncan Weir has

:05:17. > :05:22.crossed the M8 to join Edinburgh. Rasolea, wouldn't like to come

:05:23. > :05:28.across him on a dark night. Cardiff Blues though, they have quite a

:05:29. > :05:34.record here. Winning 80% of their home matches last season, doing the

:05:35. > :05:38.double over Edinburgh. Not a big crowd but plenty of big names, and

:05:39. > :05:45.there is one of them, Nick Williams, the former Ulster number eight. As

:05:46. > :05:55.they walked out onto this famous pitch, now all-weather. The PA

:05:56. > :06:02.announcer is winding up here. The monster trucks behind us in the

:06:03. > :06:14.major stadium now, should be getting a big, big game. There is Williams.

:06:15. > :06:26.A really abrasive number eight. The pack, familiar faces all round. Rhys

:06:27. > :06:34.Gill, Myhill and Filise,. Plenty of pace in the backs. The USA wing

:06:35. > :06:39.Blaine Scully, as well as Cory Allen and former chief Rey Lee-Lo. Tom

:06:40. > :06:42.James is a flyer on the wing. Experienced Lions prop Gethin

:06:43. > :06:50.Jenkins, you will start his 17th season of pro rugby.

:06:51. > :07:03.The referee is John Lacey of Ireland. The assistants are Stuart

:07:04. > :07:04.Gavigan and Rhys Thomas. The TMO is Jeff Mark. Edinburgh playing

:07:05. > :07:19.left-to-right. Williams, a short ball. Navidi is

:07:20. > :07:38.there. Cook, the big second row. And

:07:39. > :07:44.Williams showed a touch but it goes in off big Glenn Bryce. The

:07:45. > :07:50.full-back. It will be a throw into the Blues. You can see Cardiff

:07:51. > :07:55.trying to get into position to get a kick away to relieve pressure. Great

:07:56. > :07:59.first effort and defence from Edinburgh, putting pressure on the

:08:00. > :08:03.kicker. Unfortunately the half charge down that Glenn Bryce

:08:04. > :08:08.couldn't get hold of it, gives Cardiff and out with their own

:08:09. > :08:19.line-out. Williams knocks it on from Myhill. Edinburgh in possession.

:08:20. > :08:24.Here comes Scholes. The conditions tonight will be difficult, won't

:08:25. > :08:27.they? Because Cardiff Blues will be confident, thinking they can beat

:08:28. > :08:32.Edinburgh, but if they keep making mistakes like that, there's a

:08:33. > :08:36.chance. Nick Williams dropped the kick-off, the ball went through his

:08:37. > :08:40.hands, and his first chance to carry, make a name for himself as a

:08:41. > :08:45.Cardiff Blues player, he has knocked the ball on. Great initial attacking

:08:46. > :08:50.opportunity. I think we can see the artificial surface down here,

:08:51. > :08:54.because it's been wet all day, it will be greasy and the ball will be

:08:55. > :08:58.slippy. It's important for Edinburgh to get their scrums sorted and go

:08:59. > :09:12.through the basics. The front row, Sutherland, Ford and

:09:13. > :09:30.WP Nel. Behind them, McKenzie, Gilchrist and

:09:31. > :09:36.Ritchie. The two Edinburgh centres are quite flat. Expecting to see one

:09:37. > :09:40.of them take a fairly short ball off Duncan Weir and set a platform.

:09:41. > :09:46.Edinburgh looking for and getting the early penalty. It's exactly what

:09:47. > :09:52.the forwards want, just asserting their dominance there. We talked a

:09:53. > :09:56.lot last year about just how dominant the Edinburgh forward pack

:09:57. > :10:00.are. They will want to stake a claim straight off the bat here. A chance

:10:01. > :10:08.for Duncan Weir to get his first points in the red of Edinburgh.

:10:09. > :10:14.Looking at the BP Nell's back, how straight it is. Rhys Gill couldn't

:10:15. > :10:15.cope. And a penalty against the big Blues loosehead prop. Duncan Weir

:10:16. > :10:50.then, the man from Glasgow. Calm, assured, steady. The ball goes

:10:51. > :10:53.straight between the posts. Edinburgh into an early lead. Scrum

:10:54. > :11:01.dominance is the first card they play. Yeah, Duncan Weir made himself

:11:02. > :11:05.some fans in Edinburgh already. Those sort of Pixar bread and butter

:11:06. > :11:09.for him. An excellent striker of the ball. It's good for Scottish rugby

:11:10. > :11:14.he's made the move across to Edinburgh. You want your top players

:11:15. > :11:18.playing regularly. Finn Russell at Glasgow. Duncan Weir at Edinburgh

:11:19. > :11:24.and also Jackson at Harlequins. The more competition the better. I think

:11:25. > :11:28.it's still strange seeing him in an Edinburgh jersey. Good kick taken by

:11:29. > :11:51.Fischer Dan Fish. Lee-Lo with a longer pass into

:11:52. > :12:04.midfield. A trio of ball carriers for the Blues. Filise misses out.

:12:05. > :12:07.Edinburgh defending. Blues going left-to-right and right-to-left.

:12:08. > :12:14.Williams seems to have caught that. Third time lucky, just caught that

:12:15. > :12:19.one. Abrasive hooker, Myhill, good runner. Trying to get width.

:12:20. > :12:33.Shingler. That's a good kick. These

:12:34. > :12:43.full-backs, Dan Fish and Bryce will be exchanging kicks. Into the

:12:44. > :12:49.midfield with Duncan Weir. The Cardiff crowd quite liked that one.

:12:50. > :12:53.Taken by Cory Allen, another sevens star, didn't quite get into the

:12:54. > :13:02.final Team GB seven is set up, but it pops out the back. Shingler has

:13:03. > :13:11.the other wing forward. He has Jenkins outside him. Picked up this

:13:12. > :13:17.time by Rasolea. The knock-on there was a big gap in the defence. It was

:13:18. > :13:23.a big gap. Edinburgh's defence was a bit slow to get set. From a fairly

:13:24. > :13:27.standard play, Cardiff coming out the back. We see a bit of a gap and

:13:28. > :13:31.Gilchrist doesn't bite in with the rest of the forwards. To be honest,

:13:32. > :13:38.it should be a try. Edinburgh should finish that. Just gets himself in

:13:39. > :13:42.the way a little bit, Glenn Bryce, no way it's a deliberate knock-on,

:13:43. > :13:47.but gets in the way of the pass goes to ground. Cardiff in a strong

:13:48. > :13:51.attacking position. Edinburgh again putting pressure on the scrum to see

:13:52. > :14:00.what they can get, get at the Cardiff scrum-half. It's a good

:14:01. > :14:05.Cardiff Blues back division. Scully, the USA back wing. Cory Allen had

:14:06. > :14:13.nine weeks with the Team GB sevens squad. Rey Lee-Lo is the other

:14:14. > :14:18.centre. Former Chiefs player. There is too much weight, you are leading

:14:19. > :14:28.in. Not supporting your weight. John Lacey not happy with the front rows.

:14:29. > :14:34.Edinburgh, the game last year was predicated on a successful set

:14:35. > :14:38.piece. They set it on that dominance upfront. The two games against

:14:39. > :14:43.Glasgow, that's what set that up. They need to add another dimension

:14:44. > :14:49.to their game and kick on. Changes in the back might initiate that.

:14:50. > :14:55.Tomos Williams the Shingler, with a long ball out to Cory Allen. The

:14:56. > :15:02.left winger James, the flyer. His big brother is a heavyweight boxing

:15:03. > :15:06.champion. Jenkins, the joint Captain of the team. A shorter ball.

:15:07. > :15:15.Williams looking up. He's an abrasive hooker, Myhill. Longer ball

:15:16. > :15:21.again. Shingler looks inside. Sells the dummy and everybody buys it. To

:15:22. > :15:26.be frank, dreadful defending. A little bit soft from Edinburgh.

:15:27. > :15:31.Cardiff not doing anything particularly special. Shingler, just

:15:32. > :15:36.the value of carrying the ball in two hands and being gay little bit

:15:37. > :15:39.light on his feet. He has the option inside, Lee-Lo lining up behind him.

:15:40. > :15:50.The prop as well. And that is poor defending. Rasolea bytes in. Because

:15:51. > :15:54.of that, the guy beside him has to jam in. That's a defensive error

:15:55. > :16:08.from Rasolea. Smooth landing on our flights down I

:16:09. > :16:19.think! A statement of intent from the Cardiff Blues. 7-3. Scrum

:16:20. > :16:30.dominance. The biting in of the defender took the dummy. The man who

:16:31. > :16:36.joined from Western Force, Rasolea just bit in. You have to credit

:16:37. > :16:39.Lee-Lo for giving the inside option. Rasolea is worried about these

:16:40. > :16:43.ball-carriers but good recognition from Shingler that the dummy was

:16:44. > :16:54.bought and he goes in a bit too easily. Edinburgh kick off.

:16:55. > :17:03.Glenn Bryce thinks about it but let it bounce out of play. A lot is

:17:04. > :17:07.expected from Glenn Bryce, a big, strong ball-carrier. I'm surprised

:17:08. > :17:12.Glasgow let him go. He might have wanted the opportunity to play more

:17:13. > :17:18.rugby. A really dangerous attacking runner. Good opportunity to get

:17:19. > :17:22.gametime at Edinburgh. His left foot sidestep is particularly dangerous.

:17:23. > :17:25.Hopefully from counterattack and broken field, we will see him with

:17:26. > :17:31.ball in hand and he can start carving up. The last time we saw

:17:32. > :17:35.Ross Ford on the BBC, he was injured out in Japan. Had a calf muscle

:17:36. > :17:43.injury. Good throw from him, pinpoint accuracy. He lends the

:17:44. > :17:49.weight and support. Watson, pick and go, knocked on and turned over.

:17:50. > :17:59.Another error from Edinburgh. Kick on by the man on the left wing,

:18:00. > :18:05.James. Nathan Fowles. Nearly had half his top half taken off by

:18:06. > :18:10.Williams. Turnover ball. It's not going Edinburgh's way. It's not.

:18:11. > :18:14.Just try to set out a platform in midfield and Hamish Watson gets

:18:15. > :18:20.turned over. Good recognition from Tom James, the kick in behind. It's

:18:21. > :18:22.not that good a kick. Edinburgh ineffective at the breakdown. Nathan

:18:23. > :18:30.Fowles did well to get back and tidy up. He is penalised for holding on.

:18:31. > :18:37.Edinburgh need to get themselves into this game. Just now, the errors

:18:38. > :18:43.creeping into the game and letting Cardiff onto the front foot.

:18:44. > :18:51.Interested spectator. I wonder if he watched James Hogg, as we did on the

:18:52. > :19:00.Internet earlier. A fewer this at Glasgow are staking a claim. -- a

:19:01. > :19:07.few others at Glasgow. This ancient team of Cardiff, now the Blues,

:19:08. > :19:12.formed way back in 1876, beating the All Blacks and South Africa. 75

:19:13. > :19:22.associated clubs under their control and development. Shingler. Relaxed

:19:23. > :19:29.kick, but relaxed too much and to the right of the posts. Edinburgh

:19:30. > :19:32.breathe a sigh of relief. I expect Duncan Weir will probably go along

:19:33. > :19:35.with the restart to try to relieve some pressure. Make Cardiff play

:19:36. > :20:18.from a little bit deeper. Cardiff Blues, Williams, they keep

:20:19. > :20:25.possession perfect. Given the conditions we have here. Edinburgh,

:20:26. > :20:31.just holding Cardiff up. That's really important just to get back

:20:32. > :20:37.into this match. This first 13 minutes started brightly but then

:20:38. > :20:41.certainly Cardiff in the ascendancy. That's exactly what Edinburgh

:20:42. > :20:46.needed. They just slowed down Cardiff's ball, allowing Edinburgh

:20:47. > :20:51.to apply on line speed to the next Cardiff phase. Looking predictable

:20:52. > :20:57.with the one pass game. Trying to generate a quick ball but Edinburgh

:20:58. > :21:03.suffocate them and win the penalty. Great kick by Duncan Weir. Perfect

:21:04. > :21:08.way to put the previous up and under out of his mind. The line speed,

:21:09. > :21:12.Ross Ford, is that Fraser McKenzie on the ball? It is. Cardiff get

:21:13. > :21:18.isolated, which they shouldn't do when they are that close, just a

:21:19. > :21:21.short run, the stand-off. Good recognition from McKenzie that he

:21:22. > :21:25.can get onto the ball, latches on and wins Edinburgh the penalty.

:21:26. > :21:30.Fantastic kick from Duncan Weir putting Edinburgh in a strong

:21:31. > :21:39.attacking position. The maul is always the option. And it's the one

:21:40. > :21:45.they have taken. They set it up. The man in possession can't come all the

:21:46. > :21:51.way back. Edinburgh looking strong. Coming up to eight metres out.

:21:52. > :21:58.Navidi looks to me to be suspiciously offside. Referee says

:21:59. > :22:08.play on. I think it's Sutherland. They take their time to set it up.

:22:09. > :22:12.The front row in there. Edinburgh relentlessly hammering away at this

:22:13. > :22:18.Cardiff Blues line. They have won the penalty, a free ball. Watson,

:22:19. > :22:24.low to the ground, half spinning through a tackle. Half wrapped up by

:22:25. > :22:30.Jenkins. Another pick and go. Nathan Fowles is there. Sutherland thinks.

:22:31. > :22:35.He goes to the right. Has McKenzie with him. Number eight comes in,

:22:36. > :22:41.Manu. Leaves it to Watson who is bundled back onto his own player.

:22:42. > :22:45.Has to be careful, goes to ground. Relentless pressure, long ball from

:22:46. > :22:57.Nathan falls, and good line. A fantastic line at this time with a

:22:58. > :23:05.big centre. Rasolea makes amends for the earlier error. Just came in on a

:23:06. > :23:11.short ball. Comes right back in. Great try by Rasolea. 25 years old,

:23:12. > :23:15.great attacking line. Interesting watching Nathan Fowles at the base

:23:16. > :23:22.of the rack. He was happy for the forwards to keep picking and going.

:23:23. > :23:28.-- base of the ruck. Fantastic line, start outside the Blues defender and

:23:29. > :23:31.comes on a short inside line. Catches the defence unawares. That

:23:32. > :23:34.close to the line coming he just powers over. Great way to redeem his

:23:35. > :23:46.earlier error for the Cardiff try. These two centres look like they can

:23:47. > :23:50.cause trouble for Edinburgh. Duncan Weir just to the right of the posts.

:23:51. > :23:57.Confidently kicks between them and Edinburgh are back in the game.

:23:58. > :24:02.Exactly what was required. They got themselves into a great attacking

:24:03. > :24:08.position. Shingler flies up, trying to shut down the space on Rasolea.

:24:09. > :24:13.But he runs a really good line coming out, takes on past Shingler

:24:14. > :24:22.into the gap. Rasolea was born in Brisbane. He's still young. He has

:24:23. > :24:28.played for Western Force. And also some Australian club rugby. But he's

:24:29. > :24:38.over here now, signed up. There are quite a few of these attack minded

:24:39. > :24:42.backs. It's a really attack minded backline, I think. We talked about

:24:43. > :24:46.Glenn Bryce. Tom Brown had a good season. Last season he was always

:24:47. > :24:51.threatening for Edinburgh on that wing. Interesting to see skulls when

:24:52. > :24:58.he gets a bit of ball. He has come from Ulster, a sharp character. Just

:24:59. > :25:10.need to get some ball. Which this forward pack can deliver.

:25:11. > :25:24.Early in from Filise. A big, big man, the 33-year-old Tongan. Had a

:25:25. > :25:35.testimonial dinner earlier in the year at Cardiff, Filise. Kicked

:25:36. > :25:40.along. Manu was under it, taking it confidently. Through two men. Making

:25:41. > :25:49.a couple of metres. One man to clean out, very good. Duncan Weir,

:25:50. > :25:54.straight into Sutherland's chest. A foul and another penalty coming to

:25:55. > :26:00.Edinburgh. And they looked as though they feel they want to accelerate

:26:01. > :26:04.the game. A smart tactic, playing the conditions from the free kick

:26:05. > :26:09.just outside their 22. Just kicked it long. Dan Fish buts and a pan

:26:10. > :26:12.under back but it's too far and Manu catches it uncontested. -- plots and

:26:13. > :26:25.up and under. Cardiff infringe again. Long kick,

:26:26. > :26:31.and we know Duncan Weir has that distance in his little boot of his.

:26:32. > :26:42.A slight wind left to right as you watch it.

:26:43. > :26:49.We were being told earlier that they would redevelop the stadium if they

:26:50. > :26:54.can. This man with good power in his boot. Duncan Weir, that could have

:26:55. > :27:01.gone another ten metres. A great kick from Duncan Weir. Let's hear

:27:02. > :27:05.from Andy McCall. Eventually it's been a good first 20 minutes for

:27:06. > :27:08.Edinburgh. A very disappointing passage of play when they conceded

:27:09. > :27:15.the try and the defence was poor but since then they have reacted well.

:27:16. > :27:20.Duncan Weir's performance has been evident already. Quite satisfying

:27:21. > :27:28.first 20 minutes for Edinburgh. Knock-on. Early-season untidiness,

:27:29. > :27:33.but I think it's a good game. I would agree, especially given the

:27:34. > :27:39.conditions. The last two restarts Edinburgh haven't dealt with.

:27:40. > :27:44.Edinburgh were unfortunate, getting a knock-on from Cardiff, but that's

:27:45. > :27:49.basic from McKenzie. You work on your restart taking in the week.

:27:50. > :27:52.Took his eyes of the ball a little bit. Slightly greasy making

:27:53. > :27:56.conditions challenging. Look like the ball didn't have the height on

:27:57. > :28:01.it he expected. If anybody has been to this ground, we should tell

:28:02. > :28:04.people that we heard earlier on that they are thinking of demolishing

:28:05. > :28:09.everything behind the fast and and switching the pitch 90 degrees. They

:28:10. > :28:13.would make it some sort of high-tech ground where you can remove half of

:28:14. > :28:18.it and under the bridge there will be eight basketball arena with more

:28:19. > :28:23.seating. It sounds very high-tech and fancy, fascinating if it comes

:28:24. > :28:28.to fruition. You would lose a bit of the character and atmosphere you get

:28:29. > :28:34.in the current stadium. But it would make it an impressive venue. It's a

:28:35. > :28:39.brilliant little ground. This move, the late forward pass. Shingler with

:28:40. > :28:46.a dummy. Moves on and tries to hit Lee-Lo, this battering ram of a

:28:47. > :28:52.centre. Forward pass. The rain has not left us all day and is now

:28:53. > :28:58.probably on its way up to Glasgow. And we have a game on. A completely

:28:59. > :29:03.artificial pitch, and everybody is looking forward to seeing the one at

:29:04. > :29:09.Scotstoun. Have you seen it? I haven't. Glasgow Art at home next

:29:10. > :29:13.weekend. They will get a fresh run out next weekend. -- Glasgow are at

:29:14. > :29:17.home. To have an artificial surface means that we have a really firm...

:29:18. > :29:21.There were questions on whether this game could go ahead. It was

:29:22. > :29:27.torrential rain for most of the afternoon.

:29:28. > :29:38.Just come out of the tunnel, same ball.

:29:39. > :29:44.I don't think as many scrums collapse on the artificial as well.

:29:45. > :29:50.Don't know if it's a foot in thing or just the frustrations of

:29:51. > :29:54.resetting again now. I think players tend to stay up during scrum time a

:29:55. > :30:00.bit more. But I might be proven wrong as this scrum goes straight to

:30:01. > :30:04.ground! I think you are right. Scrums collapse because you can't

:30:05. > :30:11.just pretend to slip your binding or slip your feet. Studs don't slip.

:30:12. > :30:13.Edinburgh looking to try to win the penalty with WP Nel at tight head

:30:14. > :30:40.trying to do a number. Fish into Watson. Navidi.

:30:41. > :30:46.Interesting surname, Iranian father. Almost intercepted. A beautiful

:30:47. > :30:56.little spin. In the Williams. That forearm smash. A few neck rolls and

:30:57. > :31:07.there. Shingler pop setback. Runs it to his opposite number. Williams

:31:08. > :31:13.looks for Shingler, Shingler gives it the Fish. Fish is brought to

:31:14. > :31:23.ground. Williams again. Williams with a heartbreak. Space around the

:31:24. > :31:37.Edinburgh fringe defence. Navidi, brought down by McKenzie and Watson.

:31:38. > :31:44.Slower ball around the ball. Cardiff with a fair bit of possession.

:31:45. > :31:49.Edinburgh only putting a maximum of two people in the breakdown, so

:31:50. > :31:56.plenty of men on their feet. It is slightly greasy. That was the

:31:57. > :32:12.strength of Nick Williams. Fish propped it up. He was an athlete.

:32:13. > :32:22.103 kilograms as a winger. Intercepted. Edinburgh has a chance.

:32:23. > :32:30.Will they play on? Nasi Manu is begging for the ball, looks left

:32:31. > :32:39.instead. Calm, assured, makes territory, misses touch, possibly

:32:40. > :32:53.deliberately. Another tackle messed. Navidi rescues it. Tom James

:32:54. > :33:02.enjoying himself at the right wing. Williams just picked that up in the

:33:03. > :33:09.middle of the ruck. He is playing outrageously and they have been

:33:10. > :33:13.called back. A bit of a bust up. Also an insured Edinburgh player.

:33:14. > :33:23.Let us say what the referee has to say. Williams is a great ball

:33:24. > :33:28.carrier. We saw a couple of times in that phase, that passage of play, he

:33:29. > :33:35.is just starting to get a bit of yard in. He is bumping to defenders.

:33:36. > :33:39.Edinburgh regrouped well. The referee came back and said, no

:33:40. > :33:49.advantage from an earlier infringement. An opportunity now to

:33:50. > :33:53.put points on the board. Nick Williams, we know he is so effective

:33:54. > :33:58.and very smart. Recognition there is no one around that break down the

:33:59. > :34:05.Edinburgh. Poetry in motion, full flight. He does well here. He shrugs

:34:06. > :34:10.Duncan Weir off. He keeps that ball alive. So often, that is the key to

:34:11. > :34:15.an attack. Cardiff club through and Tom James is in front of him. This

:34:16. > :34:18.is his earlier effort. That is what we expect from him and that is why

:34:19. > :34:22.Cardiff signed him from Ulster, getting him on the front foot. From

:34:23. > :34:30.that platform, they have this opportunity now. Williams, he had a

:34:31. > :34:33.couple of early errors but has brought his team might back into

:34:34. > :34:46.this with a couple of very abrasive runs.

:34:47. > :34:55.Shingler, under the floodlights. You can see the rain still coming down.

:34:56. > :35:01.The hair is matted against his head, right footed, one or two steps. The

:35:02. > :35:09.lights, the rain, they do not bother him. A good penalty from Shingler.

:35:10. > :35:16.It brings Cardiff to within three points. Cardiff ten, Edinburgh 13.

:35:17. > :35:22.Very balanced match, good crowd, reasonable crowd here given the

:35:23. > :35:26.conditions. Pretty much full. You can see the more exposed one on

:35:27. > :35:31.television. Not so busy but the corporate boxes both ends up plenty

:35:32. > :35:35.of custom, typical Friday night rugby in Cardiff. It's Saturday.

:35:36. > :35:51.Except it is Saturday. Duncan were just making sure he is

:35:52. > :36:02.underneath it. Could not catch the slippy ball. A comedy of errors

:36:03. > :36:07.there. Duncan Weir, his kick was not where he wanted be. I think he

:36:08. > :36:14.surprised himself that he was under it. We see Tom James and Nick

:36:15. > :36:19.Williams just doing some assaults. Bit of an opportunity for Duncan

:36:20. > :36:26.Weir. Does not quite take it. Difficult conditions. You can see

:36:27. > :36:42.that Edinburgh want to play smart and territory. Important to play

:36:43. > :36:47.down in their half. Williams... Let us join Finn Russell and the studio.

:36:48. > :36:52.Your thoughts on the first passage of play? Are a good first 20

:36:53. > :37:00.minutes. Looking at the attacking, they are looking for the float. --

:37:01. > :37:06.the off. They are finding a lot of success in the middle of the ruck.

:37:07. > :37:13.It is worrying for Edinburgh so early on in these conditions. Finn

:37:14. > :37:17.Russell, thank you very much indeed. We will have detailed highlights of

:37:18. > :37:21.the Warriors game early on, if you don't know the result you have got

:37:22. > :37:31.to watch that, very interesting game, that is what I am saying. Tom

:37:32. > :37:39.James, he has played for Wales and tries to chip and chase. He does.

:37:40. > :37:47.Good defence. Williams pretends to say that the James. It is like some

:37:48. > :37:55.many soap operas when you watched his players. Watch this through.

:37:56. > :38:02.They will not show us it but good trip, good chase by James. It just

:38:03. > :38:06.bounced the wrong way. Good recognition there. You expect the

:38:07. > :38:13.scrum-half to cover that chip and kick. Further infield. Good

:38:14. > :38:20.recognition from James but he does not manage to stay infield. Both

:38:21. > :38:26.teams looking to play more territory. Good line-out. And a maul

:38:27. > :38:32.in the middle of the pitch. They tried to move this forward quickly.

:38:33. > :38:39.The forward is somewhat isolated that Edinburgh have made a good 15

:38:40. > :38:44.metres. Smuggling the ball back, you cannot just come back with a ball,

:38:45. > :38:55.you have got to smuggle it. Edinburgh have already got penalty

:38:56. > :39:03.for the scrum. They it. That is a great piece of power. Taken quickly

:39:04. > :39:10.by another sevens expert, Tomos Williams, real flyer, off-load. This

:39:11. > :39:16.is another flyer. Cardiff very much in control despite the fact they are

:39:17. > :39:28.points down. McKenzie bravely tries to bring him down. Williams looks

:39:29. > :39:35.left. There is a penalty coming. The referee's hand is up. Not letting

:39:36. > :39:50.Williams get the ball. There will be a chat with the captain.

:39:51. > :39:57.Gilchrist not rolling away there. A couple of times that that has

:39:58. > :40:00.happened to Edinburgh. They need to be smarter about it. That is exactly

:40:01. > :40:07.what this game needed from the scrum-half Williams there. Just a

:40:08. > :40:13.spark tempo back into it. The momentum had gone from both sides.

:40:14. > :40:21.That has reasserted it to Cardiff. A kickable penalty. They decided to go

:40:22. > :40:27.for the corner. A real shame for Edinburgh. The passing man is going

:40:28. > :40:38.for. He was out in an earlier tackle, and on comes Magnus

:40:39. > :40:45.Bradbury, number 20. His mother has just been voted vice President of

:40:46. > :40:57.the SRU. Cardiff for their turn to attack through the maul. And it has

:40:58. > :41:00.been brought down. A penalty try. The Cardiff players congratulate

:41:01. > :41:05.themselves but the referee has said that as a penalty try, deliberately

:41:06. > :41:10.collapsing a maul were a try would have been scored, and there will be

:41:11. > :41:15.a yellow card. Cardiff did it well. They were on the front foot, they

:41:16. > :41:20.had the momentum, but they peeled around, and it did look like they

:41:21. > :41:26.would go over, so Jamie Ritchie took the law into his own hands. John

:41:27. > :41:33.Lacey is having none of it, though. A double penalty. The next ten

:41:34. > :41:38.minutes in the bin. Just watch the replay. They have peeled away, most

:41:39. > :41:42.of the Edinburgh forwards are out, Jamie Ritchie coming in from the

:41:43. > :41:47.side, tackling one of the Cardiff players which kills their momentum.

:41:48. > :41:49.That is him on the ground, number six. It was cynical and John Lacey

:41:50. > :41:57.having none of it. Cardiff, decision vindicated. They

:41:58. > :42:03.decided to go to the corner, they backed their forwards, Edinburgh got

:42:04. > :42:10.one up on them early on in the game, but a penalty try the Cardiff now. A

:42:11. > :42:18.good maul. Still a powerful means of attacking. If you collapse it, you

:42:19. > :42:22.are in trouble. You can bet your bottom dollar that Edinburgh were

:42:23. > :42:25.thinking, if we go into this half points up, despite what that man is

:42:26. > :42:35.doing, that would be a good 40 minutes. It is now an important 5.5

:42:36. > :42:43.minutes until half-time. They have taken their tempo out. They are

:42:44. > :42:45.taking that restart. They try to did up when Ross Ford was clearing the

:42:46. > :43:01.ball to the line-out. Bryce has Shingler ahead of him.

:43:02. > :43:08.Just skips ahead of the big loosehead prop. The front row has

:43:09. > :43:18.been pretty quiet. Most of the tempered this last ten minutes has

:43:19. > :43:30.been Cardiff. Fish chases across. He pretends to kick. He cleverly goes

:43:31. > :43:40.between tee players. Frantic pass rescue, lots of work on it. They

:43:41. > :43:45.will be keen to go in. Williams is deciding to put in a kick, he is

:43:46. > :43:49.finding a lot of space. Cardiff reclaimed possession, they get the

:43:50. > :43:55.bounce of the ball as well. They have got their defence set. They

:43:56. > :44:01.just need to be disciplined and squeaky clean and make their

:44:02. > :44:10.tackles. A carry from Navidi. It is too long, it clatters into the

:44:11. > :44:15.little ball carrier, the automatic aeroplane. Edinburgh a man down,

:44:16. > :44:20.Gilchrist will want to bring his men together and sort some of this out

:44:21. > :44:27.because this is a game they looked as though they could possibly win.

:44:28. > :44:31.They still can. If Shingler had taken a metre or two off back kick,

:44:32. > :44:35.it was in the right option. James was in a lot of space dumpers left

:44:36. > :44:42.wing. Edinburgh kicked too strong, it was straight out, the Edinburgh

:44:43. > :44:46.forwards getting their breath back, slowing things down, taking any

:44:47. > :44:51.momentum Cardiff may have had out of this, playing smart with a man down.

:44:52. > :45:02.Cleverly done by Cardiff, did not even oppose it. Edinburgh have a

:45:03. > :45:08.penalty. Interesting with the new laws and how you have to transfer

:45:09. > :45:14.the ball back row back. He did not have the ball yet because Edinburgh

:45:15. > :45:23.had not transferred it back. And in the next person creates that maul,

:45:24. > :45:27.but he clearly collapses it. Speaking to the referee that. Not

:45:28. > :45:32.the first man to tackle the maul. The first person was the man at the

:45:33. > :45:38.back. He's saying to the referee, as soon as they had the advantage, we

:45:39. > :45:41.will take the penalty. It is an opportunity for three points. It

:45:42. > :45:46.takes time away from the man in the sin-bin. How do you think Duncan

:45:47. > :45:53.Weir is settling it? He is playing well. He is just settling in. A real

:45:54. > :46:05.strength of his. Kiss of death, no doubt. Duncan Weir again. Just

:46:06. > :46:10.pushes it to the right of the posts. It is not bad option. Cardiff have

:46:11. > :46:14.the restart possession. Edinburgh should get the ball back. They can

:46:15. > :46:20.launch another attack, try and play the rest of this half in Cardiff's

:46:21. > :46:26.half an eke out another penalty will use one of their dangerous men to

:46:27. > :46:33.make a break. Shingler controls are left footed. The crowd do not like

:46:34. > :46:38.it. Did not seem to be too much wrong from here. Thinks he is first

:46:39. > :46:48.man in and gives away the penalty. It was Jenkins. Exactly what

:46:49. > :46:53.Edinburgh wanted, get back into Cardiff's half, and Cardiff give

:46:54. > :46:58.away a penalty. Jenkins thought he had right of the ball but Navidi had

:46:59. > :47:02.already gone over and created that ruck. He created the sidelines so

:47:03. > :47:11.Jenkins had to come back and enter through the gate. Because Navidi

:47:12. > :47:15.goes over, he has created the ruck, so Jenkins no longer has writes. He

:47:16. > :47:32.has the come back around and approach it from the Cardiff side.

:47:33. > :47:46.Duncan Weir desperate to claw three points back. Take Edinburgh to

:47:47. > :47:51.within a point. He has missed two fairly long-range kicks now and have

:47:52. > :47:54.one success but they will be disappointed with themselves because

:47:55. > :48:00.he can get his kicks, the Cardiff fans like it, but Edinburgh having

:48:01. > :48:06.to weather a bit of a storm in more ways than one. And with a man in the

:48:07. > :48:10.sin-bin, it has taken a couple of minutes out of that and has kept

:48:11. > :48:13.Cardiff deepened their half. He wanted to put the ball over and get

:48:14. > :48:24.the points on the board but even missing them was not all that bad an

:48:25. > :48:35.option. Scrolls it was. Halfway line. Time is up in the first half.

:48:36. > :48:39.Depends who was happy in who wants to get more points. McKenzie knocks

:48:40. > :48:47.it on, it will be a scrum, but it will also be half-time. That has

:48:48. > :48:54.been a pretty exciting first half. Conditions we thought would be bad

:48:55. > :49:00.but we have had good tries. That penalty try, Duncan Weir with the

:49:01. > :49:07.kicks, and it has been a game of real test between these two teams

:49:08. > :49:17.here at Cardiff. There we are. A cracking 40, and it is Cardiff 17,

:49:18. > :49:21.Edinburgh, 13. It really was a cracking 40 minutes. Very much like

:49:22. > :49:27.Edinburgh season last year. They do daft and lovely things. There is a

:49:28. > :49:35.lot of good stuff will stop a lot of frustrating stuff as well. The

:49:36. > :49:44.conditions are bad. Overall, they will not be too disappointed. 17-16

:49:45. > :49:48.down with a man in the sin-bin, they would have probably taken that.

:49:49. > :49:52.Clearly still in the game but they need to cut out mistakes. That is

:49:53. > :50:00.emblematic of Edinburgh last season as well. It absolutely cost them a

:50:01. > :50:08.half times in terms of going in and down. It is one of those kicks, a

:50:09. > :50:16.point down. They managed the game with our man in the bin as well. As

:50:17. > :50:21.a whole in the game, it has been scrappy, partly due to the weather.

:50:22. > :50:27.But hopefully, second half, they might tidy up a bit. Steven

:50:28. > :50:34.Shingler, we know all about, he potentially qualify for Scotland. He

:50:35. > :50:38.showed quality. He is a class act. The first game this season, you want

:50:39. > :50:41.to get your defence rock solid and make sure you are difficult to play

:50:42. > :50:48.against an breakdown. They seem too easy. The writing was on the wall.

:50:49. > :50:54.This did not go to try but the writing was on the wall here. A

:50:55. > :50:59.couple of minutes good play by the Cardiff Blues and you can see how

:51:00. > :51:04.close they are to the line. Defensively, good line speed, making

:51:05. > :51:08.tackles, competing in the breakdown, slowing it down, reorganising, and

:51:09. > :51:14.at this point, you think it is fine, but Shingler reads this really well.

:51:15. > :51:21.But unfortunately, he has just pulled him. It is the loosehead prop

:51:22. > :51:26.that entertains Rasolea's attention and there was a defence there.

:51:27. > :51:33.Gilchrist was coming across, he would've made the tackle. Just a bit

:51:34. > :51:37.weak. That is decision-making in defence. That was poor

:51:38. > :51:45.decision-making. Any stand-off as well. Rasolea missed that tackle

:51:46. > :51:55.there but made up a bit with a fine try. He comes from out and then back

:51:56. > :52:03.out almost. A great line. Hard to pick up from the outside. A big guy

:52:04. > :52:07.that far out. The setup is good. The composure was good. We have seen

:52:08. > :52:12.three or four. But there were probably five or six but good

:52:13. > :52:16.decision there. With angle, no one will stop it. He redeemed himself

:52:17. > :52:24.from the missed tackle to concede the try to score that. He looks like

:52:25. > :52:28.he has got good lines. 24 years old, born in Brisbane. You would not

:52:29. > :52:37.fancy running against you, would you? Ideally not. We talked about at

:52:38. > :52:42.the start of the half-time chat the frustration that comes to Edinburgh.

:52:43. > :52:50.Ritchie, yellow card, penalty try and paint all over. This is another

:52:51. > :52:56.decision. The Blues look like they are going over and he decides he has

:52:57. > :53:01.got to stop it. The decision there is, will you stop the try been

:53:02. > :53:08.conceded? The problem is, by doing that, you run the risk of giving a

:53:09. > :53:15.penalty try and yellow card. So a double whammy. It is right. He comes

:53:16. > :53:21.in from the side and brings it down. I think try would probably be

:53:22. > :53:29.scored. Now the wait is interpreted, it is a yellow card as well. He had

:53:30. > :53:34.to do something and the referee has taken the extreme case. 17-13 at

:53:35. > :53:40.half-time. Edinburgh have a big performance in the second half.

:53:41. > :53:45.Glasgow were up against defending champions, earlier today and were

:53:46. > :53:50.hoping for a big performance. C how they got on. Fairly impressive stuff

:53:51. > :54:02.at times. But they are up against a very changed side. There were only

:54:03. > :54:08.eight. He scored in the games last year against Glasgow. This was

:54:09. > :54:12.earlier on. Bit like Edinburgh, defensively, not great, but in the

:54:13. > :54:16.end, Glasgow really got hold in the game. It was across-the-board. It

:54:17. > :54:22.was not just the forwards and backs, really good interplay. Purpose

:54:23. > :54:29.there, knew exactly what he wants and when. This some top the first 40

:54:30. > :54:41.minutes. They were making good decisions, good lines. Doing really

:54:42. > :54:48.well. Great off-loads. The king is dead, long live the King! Great

:54:49. > :54:56.finish it. Very simple but very effective. He knows where the line

:54:57. > :55:00.is. The way the boys have executed that, from there, you would expect

:55:01. > :55:10.them to screw that nine times out of ten. It was a tough day. It was

:55:11. > :55:20.windy, funnily enough, because always is. Look how difficult this

:55:21. > :55:26.player is to get down. He started where he was last season. You know

:55:27. > :55:30.they are good side, play great rugby, but they were not the same

:55:31. > :55:36.side as last year, mainly because the personnel changed. You have got

:55:37. > :55:40.Henshaw missing. But this boy knows exactly how to deliver a great try

:55:41. > :55:51.an great finish. He is such a good player and great finisher. A great

:55:52. > :55:55.step. Good hands. It was tough for him, coming across. We talked about

:55:56. > :56:06.bad decision-making from an Edinburgh point of view. A yellow

:56:07. > :56:11.card here. This is the try. Tommy Seymour is the left-winger. There he

:56:12. > :56:16.is out on the right wing. Peter Hearn is in at stand-off. Look at

:56:17. > :56:22.the execution. You could say this is an easy pass but he has to do it. He

:56:23. > :56:27.entertains the defence because they know it is Joel Hall and what a

:56:28. > :56:35.great finisher. Remember this is when they were down to 14 men said

:56:36. > :56:40.they conceded a try, came back, so second half. It was 13-5 at

:56:41. > :56:45.half-time and Stuart Hall, in the heart of everything, that was a play

:56:46. > :56:50.that they planned from during the week. Looking at that there,

:56:51. > :56:53.multiple options we could have gone with an implemented the same result.

:56:54. > :57:01.But they always pick the right one and he has gone over. He is such a

:57:02. > :57:07.dangerous attacker. Seymour gets a couple in the first half. Tim

:57:08. > :57:13.Swinson had a great game as well and did lots of hard and tough work as

:57:14. > :57:19.well. I think he made good impact. First debut in the league here. This

:57:20. > :57:25.is what they did well. Corey Flynn was off by this stage. He knows

:57:26. > :57:28.exactly where the line is, he sees there is no defence, and Swinson

:57:29. > :57:36.blows over. He had a really good game. His workrate, his defence, he

:57:37. > :57:41.does a lot of the dog work, a lot of the dirty work. He definitely does.

:57:42. > :57:50.He is one of these guys you can rely on. As an attacking point of view

:57:51. > :57:57.for Glasgow, it is relentless. They kept on going the full game. It is

:57:58. > :58:05.one face after the next. It is hard to defend against. Doing all the

:58:06. > :58:14.good stuff, being in the right place. It is good decision-making.

:58:15. > :58:19.He knows exactly where to be. Stewart, big year. To hit the ground

:58:20. > :58:32.running like this today... Man of the fantastic. -- man of the match.

:58:33. > :58:37.100th game for Glasgow. He goes over the line for a good try. Again,

:58:38. > :58:44.knows whether defence is and where the try line is. These three or four

:58:45. > :58:55.tries around the contact. But the decision. Good play. No defending

:58:56. > :59:05.combined the ruck. He knows the spaces there. He has been around for

:59:06. > :59:09.ever! First game this season, away against the reigning champions. The

:59:10. > :59:13.last league match and then the semifinal, that has exercised a lot

:59:14. > :59:16.of the demons from last year. We cannot take away from the

:59:17. > :59:22.disappointment of the performances last year, but what a statement of

:59:23. > :59:29.intent. Letters get this yellow card in. Wilson gets a yellow card. What

:59:30. > :59:36.do you reckon to this? Some people suggested that potentially red card.

:59:37. > :59:40.It is late, it is stupid. It is low, his arms are engaged. If the ball

:59:41. > :59:45.was in play, a good tackle, but it was late, so a yellow card right in

:59:46. > :59:49.front of the referee. They debated whether it was dangerous but you

:59:50. > :59:54.cannot give a card based on an injury that might have occurred or

:59:55. > :59:59.every tackle would be looked at like that. The right decision yet Wilson

:00:00. > :00:03.has that propensity sometimes to do silly things and he needs to watch

:00:04. > :00:09.that because it did not cost Glasgow in this game because they were so

:00:10. > :00:15.dominant, but in other games might. It is a frustration, no doubt about

:00:16. > :00:25.it. A 41-5 win for the opening game against the champions.

:00:26. > :00:35.Very pleasing to watch. It's a great platform to build on but a lot to

:00:36. > :00:40.work on. Talk about a lot to work on, the second 40 coming up, Cardiff

:00:41. > :00:46.against Edinburgh with Cardiff leading 17-13. What do Alan

:00:47. > :00:53.Solomons' men have to do to get a grip on this game, which was looking

:00:54. > :00:59.really good in the first half. The defence needs to be better. Duncan

:01:00. > :01:02.Weir has a big role to play. Edinburgh have to improve this year

:01:03. > :01:07.and they should be aiming at the top six which gives them a chance of the

:01:08. > :01:12.top four. To do that, they must win against teams like Cardiff Blues

:01:13. > :01:16.away from home. Even though it's the first game of the season, this

:01:17. > :01:20.second 40 minutes is really important. Colin Gregor and John

:01:21. > :01:26.Beattie will describe the action. COMMENTATOR: We might have oversold

:01:27. > :01:31.it as a relieved first half, certainly a close first half with

:01:32. > :01:35.lots of mistakes. Straightaway, we have a penalty. Edinburgh inside

:01:36. > :01:39.their own 22. Colin Gregor, what do you think Edinburgh need to do to

:01:40. > :01:44.win this? They are making mistakes and giving away penalties and the

:01:45. > :01:49.penalty try. First of all they need to make sure they play in the right

:01:50. > :01:53.areas. It's still a bit greasy with the rain falling. They want to play

:01:54. > :01:57.in Cardiff's half and force them into mistakes. I would like to see

:01:58. > :02:01.them get some tempo in attack. I thought Nathan Fowles at scrum-half

:02:02. > :02:06.was selected because he adds pace and gets to the breakdown quickly

:02:07. > :02:10.and gets the ball away. Maybe Hidalgo-Clyne looks for breaks

:02:11. > :02:13.around the fringes more. But he hasn't had the opportunity. They

:02:14. > :02:18.haven't gone through the phases, as was touched on in half-time. They

:02:19. > :02:26.haven't gone through that multiphase game where they can ask real

:02:27. > :02:29.questions of Cardiff. They haven't got any real tempo to their attack

:02:30. > :02:31.yet. That's what I would like to see. Given the conditions and the

:02:32. > :02:36.first game of the season, and they are playing away from home, I would

:02:37. > :02:39.still expect them to kick a fair amount. Wouldn't want them to do

:02:40. > :02:42.anything from two deep in their own half but when they going to

:02:43. > :02:48.Cardiff's half I would like to see a bit more tempo in their attack.

:02:49. > :02:53.That's Colin Gregor. The referee has sauntered over and said he will plug

:02:54. > :02:58.that. Hard to tell if it's a new break or an old one. Macauley Cook,

:02:59. > :03:04.24 years old, took a hit on the nose. Scully did well to catch that.

:03:05. > :03:14.He was under real pressure. From Tom Brown. Navidi gets a pass away. An

:03:15. > :03:18.injury of the ball. Myhill goes down clutching his ankle. Cardiff in the

:03:19. > :03:31.ascendancy. To be frank, it's been an error

:03:32. > :03:37.strewn game. This is a brave catch. Both eyes on the ball. Great take

:03:38. > :03:42.from Scully. Yet, a typical first game of the season feel to it. A

:03:43. > :03:46.fair amount of errors. Edinburgh have a lot of new faces. I think Tom

:03:47. > :03:52.Brown is the only member of the backline that played the last game

:03:53. > :03:56.of last season. It will take a bit of time. Great work from Scully and

:03:57. > :04:02.great competition from Tom Brown there. The next phase, Duncan Weir

:04:03. > :04:08.puts a bit of line speed on Navidi and they forced the error. Good to

:04:09. > :04:15.see Tom Brown with his eyes on the ball competing for that. Stoppage

:04:16. > :04:23.for a Cardiff injury. It was Kirby Myhill, the hooker, just seemed to

:04:24. > :04:29.catch his ankle. These things can be two weeks or two or three months if

:04:30. > :04:35.you are unlucky. He has hurt his knee in some shape or form. They

:04:36. > :04:40.will be trying to get hold of Kristian Dacey, the replacement

:04:41. > :04:45.prop. We might see Gethin Jenkins, his 17th season of rugby here. They

:04:46. > :04:53.have this new joint contractor now, in Wales, where the union pays some.

:04:54. > :05:00.You were telling me that some of the Warriors players asked to play. Tom

:05:01. > :05:07.Seymour and Stuart Hogg, they were dead keen to play. They were meant

:05:08. > :05:12.to get another week or so, but they had done all of and were chomping

:05:13. > :05:18.the bit. I'm sure there were memories of the tail end of last

:05:19. > :05:23.season, going to Galway, wanting to get the season off to a positive

:05:24. > :05:27.start with Glasgow. The two of them were major factors in a really

:05:28. > :05:33.strong Glasgow performance and an outstanding victory. I wonder what

:05:34. > :05:37.Warren Gatland will make of this. Not many of the Edinburgh players

:05:38. > :05:44.are putting their hands up for Lions selection.

:05:45. > :06:03.Myhill will test this looking leg of him. -- hooking leg. Making sure

:06:04. > :06:14.they still have eight men in the scrum with Rasolea in the sin-bin.

:06:15. > :06:22.I think we spotted that would happen, the hooker can't play on. He

:06:23. > :06:27.tried to scrummage, but the camera cuts away again to Howley and

:06:28. > :06:34.Gatland. What will they be thinking? Sad news on the first day of the

:06:35. > :06:42.season, a knee injury. He's off the pitch. On comes Kristian Dacey.

:06:43. > :07:00.Dacey has three caps for Wales. A big, solid customer. Bigger than

:07:01. > :07:12.Myhill but maybe not as mobile. 107 kilograms.

:07:13. > :07:21.To be frank, rugby has to do something about these positive scrum

:07:22. > :07:27.takes. Even great all conditions here have got a couple of minutes

:07:28. > :07:32.going by taking scrums. The energy from the crowd has sapped. Difficult

:07:33. > :07:37.for the players to spark it. Glenn Bryce at first receiver on the far

:07:38. > :07:43.side of the scrum. Hopefully he gets his hand on the ball here. Penalty

:07:44. > :07:49.to Cardiff. That ball must have gone straight through the scrum. Hands in

:07:50. > :07:52.the scrum, Hamish Watson at the far end, I think. Sutherland looks

:07:53. > :07:59.bemused. The front row union not happy. The ball just coming out the

:08:00. > :08:03.far side, so he picks it up, says let's do it again. It has come out

:08:04. > :08:10.of the tunnel. John Lacey says, you've got your hands in the scrum,

:08:11. > :08:14.you've given away a penalty. If he just left it or disengaged from the

:08:15. > :08:19.scrum and got up and picked it up... Jamie Ritchie is back on. Edinburgh

:08:20. > :08:26.have dealt well with the sin-bin. The penalty try was the fact that

:08:27. > :08:30.got him in the sin-bin but they have not conceded any more in that ten

:08:31. > :08:36.minutes. Shingler has been the architect of much of the pain that

:08:37. > :08:43.Edinburgh have been suffering. 17-13 in the lead.

:08:44. > :08:52.Shingler, all-weather pitch, no slipping on his left foot. Right

:08:53. > :08:57.footed and certainly has the link. Beautiful exercise in simple kicking

:08:58. > :09:04.technique. Effortlessly stroked it. Edinburgh need to get their acts

:09:05. > :09:08.together. Just a soft penalty there. The scrum of Hamish Watson, trying

:09:09. > :09:16.to play the honest guy, the scrum coming out of the -- the ball coming

:09:17. > :09:20.out of the scrum, took hold of it to play it again. The referee says it's

:09:21. > :09:25.a ruling fraction. I thought Scarlets had done well earlier but

:09:26. > :09:30.Shingler has played well tonight, kept his points and scored his try

:09:31. > :09:39.as well. It's looking like a decent addition to the Cardiff squad. Tom

:09:40. > :09:42.James, good strip by Watson, making immediate amends. Ploughing up the

:09:43. > :09:55.pitch and straight into opposite number Ellis Jenkins. More abrasion,

:09:56. > :09:59.Nathan Fowles. Rasolea, Nathan Fowles looking right. Jamie Ritchie,

:10:00. > :10:08.the man who has been sin-binned, making some territory.

:10:09. > :10:14.They don't have the Warriors' pattern, it's a bit more left-

:10:15. > :10:20.right. They are getting more tempo into their attack. Rescued by

:10:21. > :10:25.Bradbury who has a pile of blue jerseys on him. Takes a lot of red

:10:26. > :10:29.jerseys to keep it. It has been turned over says the referee.

:10:30. > :10:37.Edinburgh get it back again. Bradbury with a pick and go. Smashed

:10:38. > :10:48.by Williams. Better spell of play. WP Nel also driven back. I think

:10:49. > :10:52.everybody hopes Gilchrist gets through some injury free game time.

:10:53. > :10:57.He's had a tough run of things. Great to see him as joint Captain at

:10:58. > :11:02.Edinburgh. His leadership is well respected within the squad. The

:11:03. > :11:12.first view of Tofilau, the man who was playing at Kirkcaldy, division

:11:13. > :11:20.two rugby last year. Watson. Duncan Weir at nine. Back to Gilchrist.

:11:21. > :11:29.Edinburgh going left-to-right and then right to left. Good flowed,

:11:30. > :11:33.that's more like it. Up the right wing and taken out of touch by Dan

:11:34. > :11:39.Fish, who tries to pretend it wasn't out of touch. Two players

:11:40. > :11:44.acknowledge each other. Better play from Edinburgh but not really making

:11:45. > :11:49.territory. At least they kept possession. Now they need to create

:11:50. > :11:55.a spark somewhere. It's a great hit from Nick Williams. As Sutherland

:11:56. > :11:59.tries to pick and go. Gets moved backwards by Williams. Obviously has

:12:00. > :12:05.a bit of a stiff neck as a result. We came in earlier today and watched

:12:06. > :12:14.the warm up with Williams doing his tackle practising on his knees. They

:12:15. > :12:18.were running at full blast and getting knocked back by him. He's a

:12:19. > :12:24.huge man. Edinburgh keeping possession. A little flowed at the

:12:25. > :12:30.end. So often it spark something, you can get behind the opposition

:12:31. > :12:35.defence. They need a bit of front foot ball now. Gets in tempo into

:12:36. > :12:45.the attack. Shingler nearly had that. Rasolea, coming back for the

:12:46. > :12:52.original mark on. Looked to be the correct move but it was just the

:12:53. > :12:55.execution. They set as if they were going to maul, got the ball down and

:12:56. > :13:00.moved it to the back of them all. Straightaway they could play away.

:13:01. > :13:07.The pass from Watson was just over the head of Tofilau. And the

:13:08. > :13:11.momentum is lost. But it was a knock-on from Cardiff so Edinburgh

:13:12. > :13:16.still have possession in the Cardiff half. They need to launch some sort

:13:17. > :13:23.of attack in this passage of play, get some sort of points. That last

:13:24. > :13:26.phase, they had multiphase, Cardiff discipline was good. Cardiff will

:13:27. > :13:30.not give away the soft penalties, something they are the Edinburgh

:13:31. > :13:31.team will have to create for themselves. To get behind the

:13:32. > :13:45.Cardiff defence and picked them off. Edinburgh looking for that much

:13:46. > :13:55.wanted scrum dominance. Nathan falls to Duncan Weir. Tofilau stays up.

:13:56. > :14:09.Bradbury. We can hear bread of Heaven ringing

:14:10. > :14:15.around the stadium. Duncan Weir comes inside. Jamie Ritchie.

:14:16. > :14:25.Duncan Weir hangs on. Just threw the dummy. The referee saw Cory Allen

:14:26. > :14:31.was miles offside stopping Duncan Weir passing out wide. Great passage

:14:32. > :14:35.of play from Edinburgh. Much better. Interception from Dan Fish, bringing

:14:36. > :14:42.it back to the original penalty as you spotted. Just got in Duncan

:14:43. > :14:48.Weir's eyeline. Any opportunity to pass out wide wasn't on because he

:14:49. > :14:51.was miles offside. Soft penalty for Cardiff. The previous phase they

:14:52. > :14:55.contained Edinburgh quite comfortably. They have given Duncan

:14:56. > :14:59.Weir the chance to get some points in the second half for Edinburgh.

:15:00. > :15:05.The game has picked up a bit in the last few minutes. Edinburgh, as

:15:06. > :15:09.everyone in the studio said, can win this match. They have the players to

:15:10. > :15:16.win it. This is the offence, flying out of defence. The guys in the

:15:17. > :15:19.studio were talking about Edinburgh's error count from the

:15:20. > :15:23.first half. They have cut that out in the last five minutes, they've

:15:24. > :15:28.had a lot of possession in the Cardiff half. It's now, how do they

:15:29. > :15:32.break the Cardiff defence down? Cardiff were not a strong defensive

:15:33. > :15:38.unit last season. They have worked on it, and it's up to Edinburgh to

:15:39. > :15:44.break them down. Duncan Weir peers into the rain. Quick pull back, and

:15:45. > :15:50.a lovely kick giving Edinburgh another three points. Edinburgh with

:15:51. > :15:56.a lot to do to win this, but it's definitely winnable. Duncan Weir was

:15:57. > :16:01.back at halfway by the time the ball went over the posts. He was

:16:02. > :16:06.comfortable as soon sit came off the boot. Cardiff are making a change. I

:16:07. > :16:12.think Gareth Anscombe coming on. One of two fly-halves on the bench,

:16:13. > :16:17.Matthew Morgan as well. You spot the backs and I spot the forwards.

:16:18. > :16:25.Gethin Jenkins, longevity, British and Irish Lions, Welsh

:16:26. > :16:30.internationalist. Edinburgh on the ball inside their own 22. Nathan

:16:31. > :16:36.Fowles looks up with a couple of red jerseys to his right. Gilchrist, one

:16:37. > :16:45.of the best players around. Duncan Weir inside his 22.

:16:46. > :17:12.Turned over by Edinburgh. McInally was screaming for it. He's on the

:17:13. > :17:17.pitch as well. Nathan Fowles looks up with a pass behind, short ball to

:17:18. > :17:26.McInally. Comes short and tackled slightly behind the gain line.

:17:27. > :17:36.Rasolea tried to make territory. Bradbury is their too. Sutherland,

:17:37. > :17:41.one pass with Jenkins, his first involvement in the match. Duncan

:17:42. > :17:47.Weir spins it wide. McInally out the back. Glenn Bryce is up from

:17:48. > :17:53.full-back. Good play by Edinburgh but not making territory. Down the

:17:54. > :17:59.right-hand side to Gilchrist. Gilchrist had Ritchie with him.

:18:00. > :18:04.Another pass, a bit more zip. Bradbury steps out of one tackle and

:18:05. > :18:12.gets a good five metres. Knocked onside. Toolis does well. Clawing up

:18:13. > :18:17.the pitch two or three feet at a time. Duncan Weir gives it away and

:18:18. > :18:27.it's picked up by Williams. Cardiff have the ball. Filise, the big

:18:28. > :18:35.Tongan, taking the place out of the game now. Given to the joint

:18:36. > :18:40.Captain, Jenkins, who comes back with a short ball. Williams getting

:18:41. > :18:46.frustrated with the players around him. Short, nice pass away. Keeping

:18:47. > :18:55.the ball alive. Good tackle by Watson. It's all the same names.

:18:56. > :19:01.Good counter drive, knocked on. It will be a little touch. Sutherland

:19:02. > :19:11.might get a bit of pain for that. Play an advantage says the referee.

:19:12. > :19:15.Dan Fish. They drag Bradbury in, and Bradbury was suckered into that one.

:19:16. > :19:24.They kept him there and he has given away the penalty. Andy Nichol. We

:19:25. > :19:42.will hear from Andy Nichol... Gareth Anscombe at scrum-half.

:19:43. > :19:58.Better play from James, a unique running style. Navidi. Better play,

:19:59. > :20:07.nice break this time from Gareth Anscombe. He's hauled down. Given to

:20:08. > :20:13.Gethin Jenkins, the old man himself. Ploughing up into the Edinburgh 22.

:20:14. > :20:17.Williams wants it short and gets it. Gilchrist, and the crowd is getting

:20:18. > :20:24.involved, getting excited. It's a better game now. Momentum is with

:20:25. > :20:29.Cardiff Blues. In front of the Edinburgh posts. Short ball, one

:20:30. > :20:41.pass game. Little break from Williams. Anscombe

:20:42. > :20:45.is caught static. Gives it back to Williams who is well behind his own

:20:46. > :20:54.line. Tackled on the ground as well. Better break from Lee-Lo. Williams,

:20:55. > :20:59.good defence by Edinburgh, keeping these marauding Cardiff players at

:21:00. > :21:07.bay. Williams to Filise. Right in front of the posts. Edinburgh can't

:21:08. > :21:11.give away a penalty. Anscombe being really prominent since coming off

:21:12. > :21:15.the bench. Making a break that has got Cardiff into a great attacking

:21:16. > :21:19.position. Edinburgh really solid with their defence, not missing

:21:20. > :21:24.tackles, not giving Cardiff any sort of momentum just now. No width to

:21:25. > :21:28.Cardiff's play but there might not need to be. Cook just nearly went

:21:29. > :21:37.through the middle. Another Blues player ploughing up the pitch. It's

:21:38. > :21:41.all Cardiff. Out to Cory Allen. He's isolated on the left-hand side.

:21:42. > :21:45.Anscombe with him, and incomes Williams. It's a penalty to

:21:46. > :21:51.Edinburgh. That is great Edinburgh defence. Well done Rory Scholes.

:21:52. > :21:58.Edinburgh under all sorts of pressure there. He got over ball.

:21:59. > :22:01.Cardiff trying to put a bit of width. Making ground with the

:22:02. > :22:05.forwards but they thought they had sucked in the Edinburgh defence.

:22:06. > :22:14.Cory Allen, great tackle by Nathan falls. -- Nathan Fowles. It's a

:22:15. > :22:24.great relieving penalty win for Scholes. Nathan Fowles has taken a

:22:25. > :22:27.bit of a shoulder knock. Anscombe makes the breakthrough here. Good

:22:28. > :22:32.last-ditch tackle from Nathan Fowles, keeping the ball alive,

:22:33. > :22:37.Gethin Jenkins. Trying to throw a dummy that Shingler went through on

:22:38. > :22:45.in the first half. Hopefully nothing serious for Nathan Fowles as he

:22:46. > :22:47.comes off with a shoulder injury. Chance for Hidalgo-Clyne to start

:22:48. > :22:51.his season and get things going. We'll be disappointed with how last

:22:52. > :22:55.season panned out for him. Needs to bed himself in and get the Edinburgh

:22:56. > :23:03.attack going when he gets the opportunity. Hidalgo-Clyne, left

:23:04. > :23:09.footed, outside his 22. James has kept it in the field. Taken by

:23:10. > :23:14.Matthew Morgan. Morgan into Bradbury who makes the tackle. Williams is

:23:15. > :23:41.still at nine. Mistake. Play on, and it'll be

:23:42. > :23:48.advantage to on the Cardiff Blues. -- to knock-on for the Cardiff

:23:49. > :23:57.Blues. Anscombe is starting to buzz around a bit like Shingler was.

:23:58. > :24:02.Williams, too. They see, and again they don't go round the corner.

:24:03. > :24:07.Navidi on his own, supported by George Earle, the big second row.

:24:08. > :24:13.Trying to look for the penalty again. Williams now being better

:24:14. > :24:20.tackled. Ben Toolis it was. Those dancing feet of Lee-Lo, up against

:24:21. > :24:27.Navidi. Through by Jenkins and Navidi does his best to keep it in

:24:28. > :24:32.his hands. Jenkins has been involved quite a bit since coming on, a good

:24:33. > :24:37.couple of steps through contact. Cardiff very narrow. No real width,

:24:38. > :24:42.no real attacking players out wide. Just trying to batter everything

:24:43. > :24:51.out. Williams coming short. It went backwards says the referee. Cardiff

:24:52. > :24:54.are still four points ahead. They've just had this opportunity to attack

:24:55. > :25:01.after that little error from Jamie Ritchie. Edinburgh defending very

:25:02. > :25:08.well. It's just how much juice that is taken out of the attack. A long

:25:09. > :25:14.passage that they have defended for. The substitution is being rolled on

:25:15. > :25:22.now. Both the Cardiff and Edinburgh, a lot of changes being made to spark

:25:23. > :25:25.things up. Anscombe having a big impact for Cardiff, threatening the

:25:26. > :25:32.Edinburgh defence. Keeping the ball in the two hands. Making breaks,

:25:33. > :25:37.asking questions, Edinburgh will have to keep an eye on them. First

:25:38. > :25:47.of all, an important line-out. McInally has to hit his jumper here.

:25:48. > :25:54.Hidalgo-Clyne caught it. Dangerous moments. Penalty to the Cardiff

:25:55. > :26:04.Blues, just what Edinburgh didn't want. So often there is talk about

:26:05. > :26:12.the exit strategies, what you do to get out of your own 22. Edinburgh,

:26:13. > :26:18.excellent line-out but then feed the ball to Hidalgo-Clyne. Cardiff

:26:19. > :26:23.recognise that an puts the pressure on him, winning the penalty. All of

:26:24. > :26:28.a sudden, a lot of pressure back on Edinburgh. Hidalgo-Clyne just

:26:29. > :26:34.isolated. All the forwards try to get there to support him. He is

:26:35. > :26:37.penalised for holding on. Edinburgh have the opportunity to try to

:26:38. > :26:41.defend the Cardiff all that they have struggled to cope within the

:26:42. > :26:48.first half, leading to a penalty try for Cardiff. Cardiff, initial

:26:49. > :26:54.defence from Edinburgh is strong. Cardiff maintain their patients.

:26:55. > :26:58.Cardiff very much superior and this could be a try. Already been a

:26:59. > :27:06.penalty try for collapsing a maul earlier. They see having a blast.

:27:07. > :27:13.Williams calls his players. The other Williams with a half block. In

:27:14. > :27:17.with Jenkins. Pick and go round the corner. Looks like the man who has

:27:18. > :27:24.caused all the trouble, Nick Williams, has got the try. It's a

:27:25. > :27:30.damp all day for Edinburgh in so many ways because Williams has been

:27:31. > :27:33.a real, real threat. And there he is, the umbrellas are everywhere.

:27:34. > :27:54.And that is a really good try as Williams crosses.

:27:55. > :28:05.Superb play by Williams. Everything about the man this evening has been

:28:06. > :28:10.dominant. And now it's 25-16 for the Blues. The rain is pelting down. The

:28:11. > :28:26.wind is hurtling left-to-right. It will help this conversion.

:28:27. > :28:37.It's low, and it's straight. And the Cardiff Blues extend their lead over

:28:38. > :28:42.Edinburgh. It's a good phase of play for the Cardiff players. They have

:28:43. > :28:43.come out here on a terrible night. Those conditions are being

:28:44. > :29:02.completely dominated by this man. Edinburgh have a lot to do. If they

:29:03. > :29:05.are to get anywhere close to parity with Cardiff Blues. The Blues going

:29:06. > :29:28.left-to-right. The errors are creeping back into

:29:29. > :29:32.Edinburgh's game. A couple of high balls that they haven't managed to

:29:33. > :29:37.deal with, just means they can't build any sort of pressure on to

:29:38. > :29:57.Cardiff. Cardiff now with the option of a line-out or scrum.

:29:58. > :30:01.Dacey, taken cleanly. Long ball to midfield. Little half block in

:30:02. > :30:23.front. The crowd think it was a forward

:30:24. > :30:34.pass. Bradbury does OK just to keep level pegging.

:30:35. > :30:47.That was Rasolea, and Edinburgh finding it hard to make forward

:30:48. > :30:52.ground. Maybe, in these conditions, kicking is not a

:30:53. > :30:55.bad idea. Conditions have deteriorated, just when Edinburgh

:30:56. > :31:03.need to start chasing this game, making it even harder for them. He

:31:04. > :31:08.turned his body. As you said, on the way down here, what happens to these

:31:09. > :31:15.pictures when it gets wet? Double just slides. It does indeed.

:31:16. > :31:19.Edinburgh will be disappointed and frustrated that they are not

:31:20. > :31:23.managing to deal with high balls, which means Cardiff are winning the

:31:24. > :31:28.kicking battle. They are getting the territory and building the pressure

:31:29. > :31:31.as a result. And in these conditions, it is getting harder for

:31:32. > :31:37.Edinburgh to get out of their half. As the scoreboard gets away from

:31:38. > :31:41.them, it is becoming more of an uphill battle. Cardiff perfectly

:31:42. > :31:46.happy to keep that in these high balls up. They will pick up the

:31:47. > :32:07.scraps, they would take the scrum, they will make Edinburgh play from

:32:08. > :32:19.deep. In the last 15. Crouch. Bind. Set. Another scrum collapses.

:32:20. > :32:39.Brand-new front row players everywhere. You were binding early.

:32:40. > :32:52.Two offences. Let's go. Wait for my call now. Crouch. That was a real

:32:53. > :32:56.increase in tempo in place and Cardiff's attacking ability, Nick

:32:57. > :33:02.Williams, that number eight there to the left. The dominant personality,

:33:03. > :33:10.and a free kick early in. Here he goes again. Just gets through these

:33:11. > :33:14.first flailing arms. Williams gave Navidi the ball, here is, a busy

:33:15. > :33:24.little scrum-half. Front row replacements. Williams looks up. It

:33:25. > :33:31.is a knock-on and it will be a scrum to Edinburgh. Edinburgh got their

:33:32. > :33:36.defence organise well. Free kick at the scrum. Nick Williams gets

:33:37. > :33:43.yardage. Good initial tackle. A little bit of a scuffle between the

:33:44. > :33:47.two Williams. Edinburgh not putting many men into the breakdown. Allows

:33:48. > :33:53.them to get their defensive line set. Cardiff playing that one pass

:33:54. > :34:01.game. Edinburgh getting line speed in shutting that down. We see Sasa

:34:02. > :34:06.Tofilau coming off. Chris Dean getting a bit of a run. It is

:34:07. > :34:11.probably a game Edinburgh can't win now. It is a lull in play, the

:34:12. > :34:19.weather is closing in, the rain is teaming in from the west. The

:34:20. > :34:28.floodlights picking out a beautiful scene but not a great scoreline for

:34:29. > :34:34.Edinburgh. The errors that have crept in over the last ten minutes

:34:35. > :34:38.or so, it is killing Edinburgh. It is so difficult in these conditions

:34:39. > :34:43.to play out from deep, which they're been posted to. -- being forced to

:34:44. > :35:07.do. Crouch. Bind. Set. They need to get points on the

:35:08. > :35:13.board. Duncan Weir will think of touch, look for the line-up. What do

:35:14. > :35:19.you think has gone wrong tonight? I guess one of the things Edinburgh

:35:20. > :35:24.tried to assume they will get scrum but have not had scrum dominance.

:35:25. > :35:29.They have not made ground. They have not. There was a passage in the

:35:30. > :35:33.beginning of the second half when they had territory and got through a

:35:34. > :35:39.few phases but were they got for that was three points. They made

:35:40. > :35:44.basic errors and it has frustrated them and killed any momentum they

:35:45. > :35:47.could have got. And yet the opportunities have not presented

:35:48. > :35:58.themselves. They have let card play a lot of the game in the Edinburgh

:35:59. > :36:06.half. Bradbury kept it. Double back door then smack bang in from Russell

:36:07. > :36:15.there. -- Rasolea. Certainly making this Edinburgh attack. Indecisive.

:36:16. > :36:21.Not penetrating. And in contrast to what we saw from the Warriors

:36:22. > :36:26.earlier on, who were coming on the passes apace, getting across the

:36:27. > :36:32.game, getting caught far too often, way behind gain line. On occasion,

:36:33. > :36:36.they have tried to play with wit but have been flat. Jewellery schools

:36:37. > :36:42.running in front of Chris Dean, taking the defender out. They have

:36:43. > :36:49.taken the bull static. In these conditions, if anything, you need to

:36:50. > :36:54.get more depth and it takes you longer, the basics of passing and

:36:55. > :36:57.countering, to have any sort of attacking threat. They looked to

:36:58. > :37:02.attack the ball with more pace. Edinburgh have been pedestrian in

:37:03. > :37:08.those areas in Cardiff have shot them down. Edinburgh make errors

:37:09. > :37:14.such as the crossing their, and Cardiff are now in with a shout for

:37:15. > :37:20.a bonus point. As I said earlier, Cardiff did the double last year,

:37:21. > :37:29.taken by Jenkins. Setting them all up, looking for the fourth try or

:37:30. > :37:41.bonus point. Williams has it. Gives it back to Dacey. Trouble here for

:37:42. > :37:51.Edinburgh. That is the second stop they have to use it. Williams has it

:37:52. > :38:02.and halfway through. Navidi is there as well. They gave it up to Scott

:38:03. > :38:19.Andrews. Williams just protects. The other Williams, Tomos Williams.

:38:20. > :38:26.Cardiff is desperate for this score. Listen to the crowd. They have been

:38:27. > :38:28.singing and chanting. Scott Andrews, the tight head replacement, thinks

:38:29. > :38:39.of sipping this one long. Another pod of forwards. No rush. Eight and

:38:40. > :38:47.a bit minutes left. McAuley round the side, bit of wit. Not bought

:38:48. > :38:54.that dummy. He really goes again. And that a way to round off. He just

:38:55. > :39:00.spotted lazy defenders. He has been busy all evening. A great try and

:39:01. > :39:07.that is the bonus winning try. Constant pressure and it tells on

:39:08. > :39:16.the Edinburgh defence. They get a little bit wide, that first offender

:39:17. > :39:24.around the breakdown. A huge gap there. Players folding round. Not

:39:25. > :39:26.recognising that the spaces there and frustrating for Edinburgh

:39:27. > :39:33.because Cardiff for playing tight, they were one pass games. The

:39:34. > :39:41.breakdown is where the threat was. Edinburgh getting wide. They paid

:39:42. > :39:44.the price. To be fair to Cardiff, it is a dominating display. Edinburgh

:39:45. > :39:50.are disappointing, they have not broken gain line second half. Since

:39:51. > :39:54.that little periods at the beginning of the second half where Edinburgh

:39:55. > :40:00.had territory and got their three points, it has been all Cardiff.

:40:01. > :40:06.Their replacements have done well, Shingler was looking good. Kept them

:40:07. > :40:10.playing in the Rye areas. Nick Williams, who we now see coming off,

:40:11. > :40:17.became more and more prominent as the game went on. And a couple of

:40:18. > :40:22.basic errors for Edinburgh. That sapped any momentum out of their

:40:23. > :40:26.game. It gave Cardiff the territory again and in these conditions, it is

:40:27. > :40:31.so difficult to play most of the game in your own half. Cardiff

:40:32. > :40:36.getting more and more confident as they deserve to be. Navidi then

:40:37. > :40:47.takes out of his own 22 with a real panache. Glenn Bryce. Not enough

:40:48. > :40:56.players to win this ball back row Mac. It is not pretty viewing if you

:40:57. > :41:07.are an Edinburgh fan. It certainly is not. It is just basics from a

:41:08. > :41:10.simple scrum-half box-kick. Glenn Bryce catches it but no numbers

:41:11. > :41:21.there to secure the ball. It gets scrappy. Bit of an error there. It

:41:22. > :41:25.shows that mistakes can go both ways. One more chance may be for

:41:26. > :41:31.Edinburgh to get up the pitch. It is a bit colder for them because they

:41:32. > :41:37.have hardly been in the Cardiff 22. They have had couple of passages in

:41:38. > :41:43.the Cardiff half but have not kicked the ball for long enough, and any

:41:44. > :41:46.kicking battles, Edinburgh have an error and Cardiff have got the

:41:47. > :41:51.territory there has been required, and that is what has set them apart

:41:52. > :42:19.from a fairly dominant performance. Crouch. Bind. Set.

:42:20. > :42:30.Rice with a long pass. Edinburgh playing precariously. Watson smashed

:42:31. > :42:37.45 metres behind the zone line but he has now turned into a slight

:42:38. > :42:44.advantage. Gilchrist at the back. In accurate pass. Another mistake.

:42:45. > :42:53.Difficult conditions to play rugby in but not many of Edinburgh's

:42:54. > :43:02.patterns working too well. In the Corey Allen. He has won four caps

:43:03. > :43:10.for Wales. Aggression. Cosgrove getting a break. And a kick to go

:43:11. > :43:16.straight to touch. It will be a line-up to Cardiff. Fair play to

:43:17. > :43:24.Duncan Weir, tried to mix up. A bit of space out there. It just

:43:25. > :43:28.overcooked the kick. Edinburgh are trying to play with more attacking

:43:29. > :43:36.intent. We saw Gilchrist trying to pass up the back a couple of times

:43:37. > :43:40.to Duncan Weir won the backs. The defenders are getting up wide and

:43:41. > :43:45.stopping the bypass. And they are doing at the wrong times. They are

:43:46. > :43:50.not doing of front football when there is opportunity to go wider

:43:51. > :43:56.when they have sucked Cardiff defence. Cardiff have won the

:43:57. > :44:00.contest around the breakdown in that one pass channel where they have

:44:01. > :44:05.smashed Edinburgh. Edinburgh do not have any front football. They lack

:44:06. > :44:19.that spark an attack they can then play off and feed off. A damp squib.

:44:20. > :44:28.The Edinburgh. Shining brightly for Cardiff though, who are just trying

:44:29. > :44:35.to make ground, but that was a knock-on. It would be a scrum. This

:44:36. > :44:39.is from the new rule. Previously, one guy would keep hold of the ball

:44:40. > :44:43.in the maul and all his players would work around him, but you see

:44:44. > :44:48.Cardiff tried to shuffle the ball to the back. As he looks to pass it

:44:49. > :44:53.again, a little Edinburgh Poor gets in there. If you want to pass the

:44:54. > :44:59.ball back, you do not pass outside your body, you pass inside. If you

:45:00. > :45:04.pass outside, you do not control it. Youngsters today are not aware of

:45:05. > :45:08.that. That is the way you got the ball to the back. They all know

:45:09. > :45:19.that. You always play it to the inside. Fair play to the Brown stuff

:45:20. > :45:24.here in this picture because as we have said before, if this had been a

:45:25. > :45:28.normal pitch, we bet this would not have been playable, given the amount

:45:29. > :45:33.of rain. There have been several centimetres of rain here this

:45:34. > :45:37.evening, so it just drains of this page. The scrums have been fine but

:45:38. > :45:43.that handling has been difficult. We have had a quick game without being

:45:44. > :45:48.one of the classics. If you are a Cardiff fan, you would be mightily

:45:49. > :45:54.pleased. The way they finished last season, they did the double of

:45:55. > :45:59.Edinburgh, but they won their last... Ten of the last 14. They

:46:00. > :46:05.have not lost at home since November so they have kept that momentum

:46:06. > :46:11.going. They are making the Arms Park into a bit of a fortress. They were

:46:12. > :46:16.probably targeting a winner, maybe looking for a bonus point, they have

:46:17. > :46:20.delivered on that. On the flip side, Edinburgh would be looking to get

:46:21. > :46:27.something from this game. They have got a run of the Irish teams,

:46:28. > :46:35.they're playing Leinster at home, Munster and climaxed. Not getting

:46:36. > :46:43.any easier for them. Rasolea rescued a bad situation. Edinburgh with the

:46:44. > :46:50.ball. Dean, skips out to Tom Brown. It is just so flat. Their backs are

:46:51. > :46:57.catching the ball static. McAnally knocked on. You are right. There is

:46:58. > :47:01.no punishing running line, not much depth and speed coming onto the

:47:02. > :47:06.ball. It is difficult when you do not get your first phase right.

:47:07. > :47:11.Edinburgh look to go blind and then Rory Scholes recognised it was not

:47:12. > :47:16.on, passed it back to us layer and gets momentum, but no quick ball,

:47:17. > :47:23.and then the backs receive it static, and then it is a big hit on

:47:24. > :47:28.McAnally. He coughs up possession. Edinburgh need to work on what they

:47:29. > :47:31.do to get over the gain line, get quicker ball, and if they want to

:47:32. > :47:37.use their backs, they can at least have the front foot. He will have to

:47:38. > :47:45.use the forwards again. You have to generate tempo to your attack and

:47:46. > :47:48.then look to free up the backs. We'll be Cardiff Blues tried to rub

:47:49. > :47:59.salt into the wounds? They have certainly got the penalty. And that

:48:00. > :48:07.under a minute left, -- with under a minute left, a bit of a discussion

:48:08. > :48:19.going on. They are asking the referee, how long? He says, I don't

:48:20. > :48:25.know. They do not know they have a bonus point not! I don't know, all I

:48:26. > :48:31.do is keep the score. Somebody must have come on and said, you have got

:48:32. > :48:39.the four, just waste time and get the kick through. And that will be

:48:40. > :48:44.that. And for Cardiff, job done. For Edinburgh, work to do. 32.5 metre

:48:45. > :48:51.long kick, write to the posts, right in the full-time whistle. Bits of a

:48:52. > :48:55.good match. If you are Edinburgh, not too happy, but here we are,

:48:56. > :49:04.Anscombe with the last bit of action in this dying seconds of this match.

:49:05. > :49:12.15 seconds over. Anscombe class Lee hits the post. He will have to be

:49:13. > :49:19.happy. We have had a game of two and frozen in the second half, certainly

:49:20. > :49:26.dominant by the Cardiff. Edinburgh had their moments with their

:49:27. > :49:30.dominant scrum. Thanks to Colin Gregor for his input this evening,

:49:31. > :49:39.excellent as always. We will be with you soon but the final score here,

:49:40. > :49:42.Cardiff 34, Edinburgh 16. Colin Gregor may have been excellent that

:49:43. > :49:46.our second-half performance from Edinburgh was far from it, only

:49:47. > :49:51.three points on. Cardiff put a bucket load on. That was tough to

:49:52. > :49:57.watch on the second half. There was nothing there. You are hoping in a

:49:58. > :50:01.new season, there would be improvements made from the previous

:50:02. > :50:05.season. We said it was not a good season last year. With all this

:50:06. > :50:12.preseason, they would have changed their style. It is the first game,

:50:13. > :50:17.but you have the contrast that with Glasgow and how they hit the ground

:50:18. > :50:20.running. You wanted to see something. There were not many

:50:21. > :50:24.redeeming features of that game. Watson does what he does. He was

:50:25. > :50:29.probably the standout player with his turnovers but that was it. A

:50:30. > :50:33.really disappointing start to the season. A couple of tries in the

:50:34. > :50:37.second half, Nick Williams of the first one. This kind of sums up the

:50:38. > :50:46.way Edinburgh were playing this game. First half, after the line

:50:47. > :50:53.breaks, we thought they would tighten up. They never adapted to

:50:54. > :51:01.the weather all the way Cardiff were defending. Not the best performance

:51:02. > :51:04.from them. Cardiff seen the boss that second-half as well, which is

:51:05. > :51:15.not something that usually happens against Edinburgh. We saw the two

:51:16. > :51:21.end of the spectrum. We have the two Williams. The weather is gone. As

:51:22. > :51:25.soon as Cardiff got up, it would always be difficult Edinburgh to get

:51:26. > :51:30.back, but is the way they did not really fire a shot in any way. I

:51:31. > :51:35.came in the commentary. There was not an extra dimension to their

:51:36. > :51:42.tackle. It was predictable. It would be easy to defend against Edinburgh.

:51:43. > :51:49.We said earlier. Edinburgh should be better. There was nothing there.

:51:50. > :51:53.After a whole summer of working together, you would hope there would

:51:54. > :51:58.be something different. They have come out and talked, they want to be

:51:59. > :52:03.top six. Cardiff away is the type of games you need to win if you have

:52:04. > :52:08.got those aspirations. That seems to me so much like last year. That is

:52:09. > :52:13.what is disappointingly. Glasgow handled those aspirations fine. You

:52:14. > :52:18.will be back in the Glasgow shirt hopefully as soon as possible but

:52:19. > :52:21.not backing the team may be. First-half tries, Seymour got the

:52:22. > :52:26.first one for Glasgow and played pretty well. A good guy gets the

:52:27. > :52:31.ball out of the wing and this deadly. He is brilliant, keeping the

:52:32. > :52:41.ball alive. That's exactly what you need. In all these clips, the

:52:42. > :52:44.viewers at home, what is the difference from what you have seen

:52:45. > :52:52.with Edinburgh and the lack of unity and spark and vibrancy and trying

:52:53. > :52:56.different things, different lines? There is a huge difference between

:52:57. > :52:59.the two clubs, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Glasgow for a number of

:53:00. > :53:04.years have been doing this. You do not just flick a switch. When you

:53:05. > :53:15.have Stuart Hawke who has set up both of Seymour's tries, Stuart

:53:16. > :53:17.Hawke without doubt world-class and Seymour world-class finisher,

:53:18. > :53:25.Buffalo tries in the second half of Glasgow. Again, the contrast with

:53:26. > :53:30.the spark. Look at the movement and people running, wanting the ball.

:53:31. > :53:40.You did not see that. OK, conditions are different. But Glasgow, this has

:53:41. > :53:44.been a hugely impressive first run out for Glasgow. 41-5 against the

:53:45. > :53:48.reigning champions. They have lost their players but look at this.

:53:49. > :53:56.Everyone is working of the ball, off-loading it, new players are

:53:57. > :54:01.coming. Pretty impressed. There is an understanding of what everyone is

:54:02. > :54:09.trying to do. Glasgow have gelled really well this pre-season. The

:54:10. > :54:12.variation of attack the Glasgow have done today and the last couple of

:54:13. > :54:19.seasons, it is hard to defend against. They are interlinking

:54:20. > :54:25.really well. You do not get that from Edinburgh. I know the weather

:54:26. > :54:31.plays a part but they did not adapt or attack or defend. He lost quite a

:54:32. > :54:37.few of his players but my goodness! These are the champions! They were

:54:38. > :54:44.the best team last year, they played the best rugby. I went to the final

:54:45. > :54:48.at Murrayfield and a fully deserved to win it. It was great for the

:54:49. > :54:55.competition. They have been the bridesmaids over there. Never the

:54:56. > :55:08.bride 's. For years, for ever. All the sub sub come on. They all made

:55:09. > :55:15.an impact. All in all, Townsend will be as happy with this performance as

:55:16. > :55:24.Alan will be disappointed. Let us look at some of the other schools

:55:25. > :55:29.around the Pro12. Today, Munster got away win. Amazing when the Glasgow

:55:30. > :55:35.Warriors. And we saw Cardiff against Edinburgh and a good win. That stuck

:55:36. > :55:40.about Townsend. He will be the Scotland coach next season. He will

:55:41. > :55:43.leave Glasgow. I imagine it is a frustrating thing for you because

:55:44. > :55:47.the guy that coaches you particularly well. In terms of the

:55:48. > :55:58.bigger picture, is a good move for him and the Scotland team? I am

:55:59. > :56:03.looking forward to him coming to Glasgow and learning from him but

:56:04. > :56:07.Gregor showing how good he can be. He likes to play running rugby,

:56:08. > :56:17.which is good. That should build on the theme. I'm looking forward to it

:56:18. > :56:21.and changing up a bit. Absolutely. In terms of Scotland point of view,

:56:22. > :56:25.Greg is still quite a young guy. Some people might raise an eyebrow

:56:26. > :56:33.and go, is it not a bit early to get team? My understanding was that

:56:34. > :56:37.there were discussions had that Carter would get an extension to

:56:38. > :56:43.take it the World Cup in Cup in Japan in 2019 which meant Greg might

:56:44. > :56:51.have looked the contract away from Scotland. Remember, this is a first

:56:52. > :56:56.head coach job. I just think... I wonder if Dave coming into the mix

:56:57. > :57:01.has opened up the eyes to Murrayfield. They do not want to

:57:02. > :57:07.lose him. Bath, Harlequins, any club were looking for Greg. He is a

:57:08. > :57:11.French speakers or the French clubs would be interested. I was expecting

:57:12. > :57:18.it to be one step away before getting the top job. He is fiercely

:57:19. > :57:24.ambitious, he wants to do it. I think you would do a good job. He is

:57:25. > :57:28.a guy who came into Glasgow. People would think it is early but he has

:57:29. > :57:33.proved everyone wrong. He has got good players. It would be

:57:34. > :57:38.interesting to see. It will be interesting to see when Venice in

:57:39. > :57:45.charge, knowing he will not be there next year. Here we go. Lots more

:57:46. > :57:53.rugby coming up. Edinburgh against Scarlets next week. Then we have

:57:54. > :57:58.Edinburgh against Leinster. It does not get easier for them, my

:57:59. > :58:03.goodness! We are back on BBC Two with the Warriors against Ulster and

:58:04. > :58:10.that is on the 23rd of September. And at the end of the month, Newport

:58:11. > :58:15.Gwent Dragons against the Warriors. There you go. Frustration for

:58:16. > :59:32.Edinburgh in Cardiff. Goodbye for now.

:59:33. > :59:35.I have some sense that there is some kind of malice at work here.

:59:36. > :59:38.They do not see that the workhouse is for their own safety.

:59:39. > :59:42.Here are boys - one dead, three missing.

:59:43. > :59:46.What possessed you to come back here?

:59:47. > :59:50.'Ripper Street. The new series continues...'