Sean Everitt has challenged Edinburgh to recover from back-to-back defeats in South Africa by prolonging their European run with victory at home to Bayonne in Saturday’s Challenge Cup last-16 clash.
As the great WP Nel retires, the paucity of home-grown Scottish scrummagers is troubling.
Strong showings from skipper Jamie Ritchie and Ben Healy, the Edinburgh fly-half kicking 12 points, were pivotal for the visitors whose tries were scored by skipper Ben Vellacott, Pierre Schoeman and Robin Hislop.
While most of the focus is currently on the Rugby World Cup in France, the 2023/24 BKT United Rugby Championship season gets under way this weekend.
Saracens player ratings: Two tries in a four-minute spell extricating the Londoners from the crisis that was the Sharks biting to lead 23-25 with the clock ebbing away.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) have rescinded a red card given to Saracens prop Robin Hislop on the weekend.
Robin Hislop has long had dreams of joining a Premiership club on a permanent basis and Wasps have now chased down the prop's signature.
It's been quite the career for farm-reared Robin Hislop but the Doncaster Bomber won't face his old Saracens friends due to untimely hitch.
Robin Hislop was at a loose end when Saracens came calling, offering the Doncaster prop six weeks he will remember fondly for the rest of his life.
Needing front row cover for Eroni Mawi and Ralph Adams-Hale, Saracens have visited the Championship, the league they will soon play in, for Robin Hislop.
