ANOTHER tight game, another narrow defeat for Edinburgh. This Challenge Cup quarter-final was a different beast in some respects to the URC loss at home to Ulster a week earlier, but the impression gleaned from it remains the same: as things stand, the capital club do not quite have what it takes to win at this level.
As Mike Blair insisted afterwards, the home team played some excellent rugby, as indeed they have done all season. But their scrum squeaked badly in the first half until Pierre Schoeman was brought off the bench to shore things up, and in the end they performed wonders simply to stay in contention after 17 unanswered points from early in the second half appeared to have put Wasps firmly in control.
