Edinburgh bury Bayonne with second-half onslaught
Edinburgh ran in eight tries as they blew away Bayonne 52-12 to get off the mark in Pool 3 of the European Challenge Cup.
Bouncing back from an opening loss to Gloucester, Edinburgh opened the scoring as Matt Currie celebrated his new contract with a try and, after Magnus Bradbury and Esteban Capilla were sent to the sin bin, Mosese Tuipluotu crossed for his first try for the club to make it 12-0 at half-time.
Lucas Martin got Bayonne on the board early in the second half, and Baptiste Germain quickly responded to a try from Darcy Graham with another score for the visitors, but the floodgates were about to open for Edinburgh as the tries came in a rush.
Duhan van der Merwe ran between the posts before Graham got his second, finding a way through a scrambling defence, and Tom Dodd then got two in quick succession, both from rolling mauls.
Jamie Ritchie added the final Edinburgh try in the 77th minute.
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Felix? Does he have the allround capability of a head coach?
Go to commentsReally? He's back from injury this week so we'll get to see I suppose. I suspect you could be right re Ioane as well. Though I go even further to say he's lost those instincts (as well as speed with his bigger size) as well. The best (and most interesting with this discussion) example was against England were maybe Jordie gave him a bad pass (go figure) but which actually helped him get wide of the blitz, and he Tele'a on the outside but only Furbank coming up on the outside infront of him, but a plethora of the England blitz strategy cover running across the field. With Feyi-Waboso turning after and catching him, cover coming, all he had to do was put the foot on the gas and run at Furbanks inside shoulder and pass the ball to Tele'a for the try. Instead, he takes two steps, senses his chasers, and passes a weak effort out to Tele'a who just immediately just decides to cut back in behind Rieko.
I've started an investigation into Jordies role and use this week. I started by watching his RWC Final effort again (actually I watched it to count Frizell's defensive impact) and in that game his first contributions were one of the first receiver flick backs, then a no look pop, that quick chip for Ardie, a solid crash ball, and carry to the line and pop for Rieko to break through, and then into the second half he had another good crash ball (stopped watching at 58' when SF went off). I know it won't be the same under Razor because the first receiver flick backs have solely been a duty of a few specific forwards, but as I've already shown, its not likely he constant crashed it up under Razor I don't think.
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