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Luke Crosbie to make first start of the season for Edinburgh

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Luke Crosbie during a Scotland Rugby training session at the Oriam, on January 24, 2023, in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Ross MacDonald/SNS Group via Getty Images)

Scotland back-row forward Luke Crosbie will make his first start of the season as Edinburgh host Cardiff on Saturday.

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Crosbie is back in for the BKT United Rugby Championship fixture after impressing off the bench against Stormers in his return from a neck injury.

Head coach Sean Everitt, who has made five changes in all, said: “Cardiff’s backs have scored the majority of their tries and they’ve managed to combine that now with a really strong set-piece and that’s become a weapon of theirs.

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    “In all aspects of the game, we need to be really sharp on Saturday to be able to get the win.”

    EDINBURGH:
    15. Wes Goosen
    14. Darcy Graham
    13. Matt Currie
    12. Mosese Tuipulotu
    11. Duhan van der Merwe
    10. Ross Thompson
    9. Ali Price
    1.Boan Venter
    2. Paddy Harrison
    3. D’Arcy Rae
    4. Marshall Sykes
    5. Grant Gilchrist
    6. Luke Crosbie
    7. Ben Muncaster
    8. Magnus Bradbury

    REPLACEMENTS:
    16. Ewan Ashman
    17. Pierre Schoeman
    18. Paul Hill
    19. Jamie Hodgson
    20. Hamish Watson
    21. Ben Vellacott
    22. Cammy Scott
    23. Matt Scott

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    JW 20 minutes ago
    Super Rugby Pacific has turned the ship around in the right direction

    LOL thats the same mentality the French saying about the Top 14. Why change their ridiculous comp if its performing well with investors?


    There is always better JWH.


    It depends really what you want out of Super Rugby and NPC. Currently Super Rugby fills both niche’s, it has the up and commers as well as the stars performing at the top. Reducing further obviously improves further on what has been the reason everybody is enjoying this season.


    There is definitely a question of balance and what going further that way removes. But theres a few reasons. What coaches are telling us is it is also a struggle to find the talent to fill out a strong SR side. There is talk of increasing financial constraints. Currently there is a lopsided (random) amount of derby home and away match ups in each conference, so going 5v5 instead of 6v6 may mean we have a full derby round for each conference (currently I think they play just 3 teams twice), or even squeeze in a full dbl round comp. Going a larger number of teams means they need to go much larger to fairer league setup.


    But they need to add or remove JWH, one or the other, and I was merely pointing out that adding, like you’re suggestion, is likely going to introduce just what we all (or at least what the person I was replying to was saying) think the comp has been remedied of, having a weak team. The 5v5 I referenced was 3 Aus teams, with the other two filling the landscape their, and 5 here. That’s what NZR wanted to kick off for the COVID year but ARU threw a hissy fit. If going to 10 is the right thing to do maybe it’s an NZ team that needs to be dropped, so Moana would remain here and Drua continue to be with the aussies, thats the other possible 5 v 5 setup (which would just be 10 if they found a way for all to play even games).

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