Current and former test stars from across New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Scotland were among those to have stood out in the latest round of Major League Rugby.
After almost a decade of service to Edinburgh, making 125 appearances and playing under four head coaches, Dougie Fife is ready to leave his boyhood club.
Fife's departure from Edinburgh was confirmed in April and he will join the playing roster of the Free Jacks for the 2021 and 2022 MLR seasons.
The Guinness PRO14 have released a list of the 20 players whose futures appear to lie elsewhere beyond the current season, with many either transferring, retiring or being released by their respective clubs.
Edinburgh Rugby have today confirmed that nine members of the squad will leave the club at the end of the 2019-20 season.
Star flyhalf Finn Russell might not be out of the woods yet following his injury scare, with flyhalf Duncan Weir among six players drafted into the Scotland squad.
The Southern Kings scored two tries in two minutes to record a sensational come-from-behind win over Edinburgh in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
I don’t know if Gregor Townsend is a religious man, but he might be offering a few prayers of thanks for the heavenly 6’6 106kg gift arriving on his doorstep this autumn from Gisborne, New Zealand by way of West Wales.
For a painfully long time, Edinburgh were viewed as a joke.