AFTER their narrow losses to Ulster in a crunch league match and Wasps in the last eight of the Challenge Cup, Edinburgh’s 28-17 defeat by the Stormers in the URC quarter-finals provided further proof of where they stand as a team at the end of Mike Blair’s first season at the helm.
Good enough to get into the knockout stages of both major competitions, they have also proven good enough to qualify for next season’s Champions Cup. As things stand, however, they lack that extra two or three per cent needed to go from being mere qualifiers to becoming actual contenders.
