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Edinburgh coach Cockerill wants 'favour' from Glasgow Warriors
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Edinburgh claimed the bragging rights over Glasgow Warriors on Saturday night but Richard Cockerill says he will be cheering on Warriors next week.
The Murrayfield coach saw his team level up the 1872 Cup series at one win apiece thanks to their 29-19 victory.
The inter-city battles also double as Guinness PRO14 fixtures and Edinburgh’s bonus-point win keeps them second in Conference B, a point behind leaders Munster.
Glasgow take on sixth-place Benetton next Saturday but the Italians are only six points back on Edinburgh and Cockerill wants Warriors to put a dent in their play-off plans.
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He said: “Hopefully they go to Benetton and win next week to do us a favour. We need to make sure we turn around, have a good training week, pick the right team and make sure we play with the same intensity and skill against Southern Kings next week.”
The only negative for Edinburgh was the sight of Scotland skipper Stuart McInally trudging off injured, but Cockerill is hopeful the hooker will be back in action soon.
He said: “Stuart’s got sore ribs but he’ll be OK. It’s just bruising, it will be probably a couple of weeks.”
There was also an injury scare for the visitors as Adam Hastings had to be replaced late on and Dave Rennie admits the stand-off will require further assessment.
He said: “Adam took a knock to the head so that was immediate. Clearly he wasn’t well enough to continue.
“The defeat is disappointing. It’s hard to win big games with the amount of errors we made.”
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GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.
Go to commentsThe 2023 draw was only criticized when it became apparent that the top 5 sides in the world were on the same side of the draw. Nowhere did they discuss the decision to backtrack to 2019 rankings which ensured that England and Wales (ranked #12 in 2023) were ranked top4.
The parties who trashed out the schedule were England Rugby, NZ Rugby and ITV. It is bordering on corrupt that a Rugby nation has the power to schedule its opponents to play a major match the week before facing them in a QF.
You won't find commentary by members of the relevant committees because a committee did not make the scheduling decision. I have never heard members of World Rugby speak out on the draw or scheduling issues.
For example in 2015 Japan were hammered by Scotland 4 days after beating SA. The criticism only happens after a cock up.
A fair pool schedule is pretty straightforward: The lowest two tanked teams must play on last pool day but not against each other. That means that TV can focus on promoting big matches with a Tier2 involved for that Friday.
Why does NZ Always get its preferred slot playing the hardest pool match on day 1?
Why do other teams eg France, Ireland, Scotland get so often scheduled to play a hard match the week before the QFs?
If you believe the rules around scheduling are transparent then please point me in the right direction?
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