OFFICIALLY, Edinburgh were well understrength for yesterday’s URC match in Parma, being without 10 of their Scotland internationals who were rested ahead of Saturday’s match against Australia. In reality, they were on top of their game – at least, for as long as it took to secure their first away win of the season in some style.
Mike Blair’s team had the bonus point wrapped up some time before the break as they shredded the Zebre defence at the Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, and they added two more in the second half to make it six touchdowns in total.
Zebre looked a pale shadow of the side that had run the Sharks and Leinster close in their first two outings in this season’s URC, and were hampered by the first-half sending-off of MJ Pelser for a shoulder-to-head contact off the ball on Nick Haining.
