THE curious thing about last Friday’s first 1872 Cup match of the season was that although Glasgow were worthy winners after dominating most of the game, on another night Edinburgh might well have emerged victorious.
The normally reliable Emiliano Boffelli missed two penalty attempts in his team’s 16-10 defeat, for example, while Duhan van der Merwe had a second-half break from which he might well have scored. The winger had been seen hobbling slightly just a minute or two earlier, and had sat out his team’s previous match because of an ankle injury, which probably explained why he was short of his best form at Scotstoun.
So those were 11 points or more which went begging from the visitors’ point of view. And that is before we get to the frenzied finale, in which Jaco van der Walt scored to put his team into losing-bonus territory, then Edinburgh launched another attack right from the restart in search of the full score that would have snatched victory from the Warriors’ grasp.
