AFTER going toe-to-toe with last season’s URC champions throughout the first half and leading on points at the break, Edinburgh finally succumbed to the Stormers’ pressure game in the second period and could not even hold on for a losing bonus point.
Afterwards, beaten head coach Mike Blair praised his players’ attitude and application, whilst expressing frustration at the way Irish referee Frank Murphy handled the scrums.
“I’m surprised that they weren’t penalised more,” he said. “We’ve got a dominant scrum, we’re going forward, the scrum is going to ground, and the referee is saying ‘play the ball away’.
