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May 15, 2021

Edinburgh v Glasgow Warriors

Posted by Editor on May 15, 2021 03:23 PM | No comments | Print | E-mail author

Rory Darge is the Warrior to Watch
Disco looks ahead, yet again, as Edinburgh and Glasgow prepare to meet at Murrayfield this evening.

You can read more of Disco's thoughts on Glasgow's PRO14 - including the Rainbow Cup - and European campaigns, Scotland's international fortunes, and much, much more at his excellent blog On Top of the Moon.

KO 7.35 at BT Murrayfield
Saturday 15th May 2021
Live on Premier Sports 1

- There are only two players in the Glasgow lineup (Enrique Pierreto and Dylan Evans) who are not Scottish qualified.
- Across the two teams there are 9 NSQ players on show (including Pierre Schoeman who will become SQ in July). That breaks down as 6 of the 12 front rows named and 3 of the other 34 players listed.
- This will be the 6th time in the space of 267 days that these two sides have met in a competitive fixture.
- Including the last minute call-off in January this is the 7th Edinburgh/Glasgow match preview that OTOTM has written in less than 9 months!

Teams

Edinburgh

15 Blair Kinghorn

14 Damien Hoyland
13 James Johnstone
12 Chris Dean
11 Eroni Sau

10 Charlie Savala
9 Henry Pyrgos

1 Pierre Schoeman
2 Stuart McInally
3 Willem Nel
4 Marshall Sykes
5 Jamie Hodgson
6 Mesu Kunavula
7 Luke Crosbie
8 Viliame Mata

Substitutes

16 Mike Willemse
17 Boan Venter
18 Lee Roy Atalifo
19 Ally Miller
20 Connor Boyle
21 Charlie Shiel
22 Jack Blain
23 George Taylor

Glasgow Warriors

15 Adam Hastings

14 Kyle Steyn
13 Nick Grigg
12 Stafford McDowall
11 Ratu Tagive

10 Ross Thompson
9 George Horne

1 Tom Lambert
2 George Turner
3 Enrique Pieretto
4 Robert Harley
5 Richie Gray
6 Ryan Wilson (Captain)
7 Rory Darge
8 Matt Fagerson

Substitutes

16 Grant Stewart
17 Dylan Evans
18 D'arcy Rae
19 Kiran McDonald
20 Tom Gordon
21 Jamie Dobie
22 Peter Horne
23 Lee Jones

Head-to-Head

15 EVEN

14 ADV Glasgow Warriors
13 ADV Glasgow Warriors
12 ADV Edinburgh
11 ADV Edinburgh

10 ADV Glasgow Warriors
9 ADV Glasgow Warriors

1 ADV Edinburgh
2 ADV Edinburgh
3 ADV Edinburgh
4 ADV Glasgow Warriors
5 ADV Glasgow Warriors
6 ADV Glasgow Warriors
7 ADV Edinburgh
8 ADV Edinburgh

Substitutes

16 EVEN
17 ADV Edinburgh
18 EVEN
19 ADV Glasgow Warriors
20 ADV Glasgow Warriors
21 ADV Glasgow Warriors
22 ADV Glasgow Warriors
23 EVEN

Tale of the Tape:

BACKS

Tries
Edinburgh - 75
Glasgow Warriors - 71

Appearances
Edinburgh - 428
Glasgow Warriors - 289

Average age
Edinburgh - 27.7
Glasgow Warriors - 26.1

Capped players
Edinburgh - 4
Glasgow Warriors - 4

FORWARDS

Pack weight
Edinburgh - 893kg
Glasgow Warriors - 877kg

Appearances
Edinburgh - 548
Glasgow Warriors - 645

Average age
Edinburgh - 27.1
Glasgow Warriors - 26.8

Capped players
Edinburgh - 4
Glasgow Warriors - 6

SUBSTITUTES

Appearances
Edinburgh - 156
Glasgow Warriors - 495

Average age
Edinburgh - 25.1
Glasgow Warriors - 27.5

Capped players
Edinburgh - 1
Glasgow Warriors - 4

Glasgow Greetings / Edinburgh Introductions:
Among some of the young team on show, Tom Lambert and Rory Darge will be making their first starts for Glasgow and it's Charlie Savala's home debut in his third match for Edinburgh.

A couple of Scotland stars will be making long awaited outings for their clubs. Stuart McInally is making his first appearance at Murrayfield since, well, the last time Edinburgh played Glasgow (the one in January for the avoidance of any confusion). Matt Fagerson hasn't featured for the Warriors since January. Edinburgh have been the opponents for each of his last three games for Glasgow.

Matchday Milestones:
The Ginger Ninja, Robert Harley, brings up yet another milestone in an unmatched Glasgow career. He will hit 250 appearances on Saturday night - no-one else has even made it to 200 yet! The big man has been one of the club's foundations since making his debut against Leinster in 2010. An exceptional grafter, he has spent more than a decade getting his hands dirty, doing the work that allows his side to be better and his teammates to shine. When the history of the Warriors is written, Robert John Harley's name will loom large. The club has been fortunate to have him for these last eleven seasons and hopefully he will continue to annoy opponents for a good few more years to come!

Baby-faced Blair Kinghorn (seriously that moustache is fooling no-one - he's definitely still getting ID'd) will play his 100th game for Edinburgh. Racking up a century of club appearances at just 24 years of age is a remarkable achievement (incidentally one he shares with Robert Harley).

Warrior to Watch / Edinburgher to Eyeball:
Winning the Rainbow Cup seems unlikely for either of these sides so the focus for the remaining three rounds has to be more around players grabbing future opportunities. No doubt there will be jostling for position in next season's Depth Charts but there's also the small matter of Scotland's 'A' team fixture and Test matches in Romania and Georgia to come.

With that in mind - and with Hamish Watson otherwise engaged in South Africa - the respective openside flankers offer some intriguing potential for the national side's future prospects.

Luke Crosbie came through with the 2017 under 20s, a group that managed a best ever 5th placed finish at the World Rugby u20 Championships that year. He primarily played at 6 in that tournament, accommodating Matt Fagerson at 7 and Tom Dodd at 8 (with Bruce Flockhart and Tom Gordon also involved in the back row). The former Livingston RFC man is almost the prototypical player Richard Cockerill might be expected to select - spiky, abrasive and never likely to take a backward step. That's also the kind of attitude Scotland probably need a bit more of when coming up against gnarly, aggressive teams like Ireland and should be enough to see him win a full cap this summer.

On the other side Melrose product Rory Darge is a precocious talent who was playing for the U20s aged just 18 but whose main run with the age grade side was as skipper in 2020. He was part of a back row that included two other players in Connor Boyle and Gregor Brown who have also made their PRO14 debuts this season. That team was the strongest collective group since 2017 but unfortunately only had a Six Nations and no global tournament to show their stuff. Rory is more of a classic Glasgow Warriors' type of player with a broad skillset as a linking back row and ready to jouer, jouer. Rory will be a strong candidate to be part of the Scotland 'A' side to take on their English counterparts this July.

Glasgow away to Edinburgh during the PRO12/14 era:
- 4 wins
- 1 draw
- 9 losses
- 4 losing bonus points
- 22 points out of a possible 70 (31%)

Previous match-up:

Officials:
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 65th competition game)
AR1: Keith Allen (SRU)
AR2: David Sutherland (SRU)
TMO: Sam Grove-White (SRU)

Mr Brace's regular season record for 2019/20 in the PRO14:
Matches - 7 (all refs - 101)
Average penalty count - 19.9 per game (all refs - 19.1)
Home penalty percentage - 50% (all refs - 52%)
Average card count - 0.3 per game (all refs - 1.3)
Penalties per card - 70 (all refs - 15)

It seems like no time at all since Mr Brace was one of the brand new refs in the PRO14. Now, Edinburgh and Glasgow will be getting one of the big dogs from among the league's match officials. With the likes of Nigel Owens, George Clancy and Johnny Lacey nearly or actually retired a younger group of refs are taking over. Mr Brace is at the vanguard of that group, alongside Mike Adamson and Frank Murphy and they already have a whole other generation of new whistlers to set an example for.

Previous Matches with Edinburgh
Saturday December 30 2023
Edinburgh 19 14 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday December 22 2023
Glasgow Warriors 22 10 Edinburgh Match Report
Friday December 30 2022
Edinburgh Rugby 25 32 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday December 23 2022
Glasgow Warriors 16 10 Edinburgh Rugby Match Report
Saturday May 21 2022
Edinburgh 28 11 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday March 18 2022
Glasgow Warriors 30 17 Edinburgh Match Report
Sunday January 2 2022
Edinburgh P P Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Monday December 27 2021
Glasgow Warriors P P Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday May 15 2021
Edinburgh 24 31 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday May 7 2021
Glasgow Warriors 29 19 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday January 16 2021
Glasgow Warriors 23 22 Edinburgh Match Report
Friday January 8 2021
Glasgow Warriors P P Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday January 2 2021
Edinburgh 10 7 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday August 28 2020
Edinburgh 3 15 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday August 22 2020
Edinburgh 30 15 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 28 2019
Edinburgh 29 19 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 21 2019
Glasgow Warriors 20 16 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday May 30 2020
Edinburgh P P Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday April 27 2019
Glasgow Warriors 34 10 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday December 29 2018
Glasgow Warriors 8 16 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday December 22 2018
Edinburgh 23 7 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday April 28 2018
Edinburgh 24 19 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 30 2017
Glasgow Warriors 17 0 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday December 23 2017
Edinburgh 18 17 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday May 6 2017
Glasgow Warriors 18 29 Edinburgh Match Report
Monday December 26 2016
Edinburgh 12 25 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday January 2 2016
Edinburgh Rugby 14 11 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Sunday December 27 2015
Edinburgh Rugby 23 11 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday January 2 2015
Edinburgh Rugby 20 8 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 27 2014
Glasgow Warriors 16 6 Edinburgh Rugby Match Report
Saturday April 26 2014
Glasgow Warriors 37 34 Edinburgh Rugby Match Report
Wednesday January 1 2014
Glasgow Warriors P P Edinburgh Rugby Match Report
Thursday December 26 2013
Edinburgh Rugby 16 20 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 29 2012
Edinburgh 17 21 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday December 21 2012
Glasgow Warriors 23 14 Edinburgh Match Report
Sunday January 1 2012
Glasgow Warriors 17 12 Edinburgh Match Report
Monday December 26 2011
Edinburgh 23 23 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Sunday January 2 2011
Edinburgh 28 17 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Monday December 27 2010
Glasgow Warriors 30 18 Edinburgh Match Report
Saturday January 2 2010
Edinburgh 15 22 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Sunday December 27 2009
Glasgow Warriors 25 12 Edinburgh Match Report
Friday January 2 2009
Glasgow Warriors 25 20 Edinburgh Match Report
Friday December 26 2008
Edinburgh 39 6 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday April 11 2008
Glasgow Warriors 23 14 Edinburgh Rugby Match Report
Friday December 28 2007
Edinburgh Rugby 35 31 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Friday December 22 2006
Glasgow Warriors 34 27 Edinburgh Gunners Match Report
Friday September 29 2006
Edinburgh Gunners 14 9 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Monday September 18 2006
Glasgow Warriors 13 5 Edinburgh Gunners Match Report
Sunday December 4 2005
Glasgow Warriors 46 6 Edinburgh Gunners Match Report
Friday September 30 2005
Edinburgh Gunners 28 12 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Monday August 22 2005
Glasgow Warriors 7 24 Edinburgh Gunners Match Report
Monday December 27 2004
Edinburgh 18 12 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday September 18 2004
Glasgow Warriors 12 10 Edinburgh Match Report
Friday May 7 2004
Edinburgh 19 17 Glasgow Warriors Match Report
Saturday December 27 2003
Glasgow Warriors 16 25 Edinburgh Match Report