Six years ago, team manager Andrew McPhail called a training night with a view to effectively resurrecting the Edinburgh Eagles rugby league team only to find the sum total of five unimpressed players and a bag of deflated balls at his disposal.
At that point McPhail may have been forgiven for writing off his ambitions for the club, based at the 12th century Royal High School which boasts comedian Ronnie Corbett among its luminaries, as just another silly joke.
