Edinburgh are soft touch for dominant Gloucester

Coach Alan Solomons had adopted a low-key, softly softly approach in the build-up, which is fair enough, until his side adopted the same approach to the first half-hour of the game, after which they were trailing 10-3 to Gloucester.

It took Edinburgh 34 minutes to mount their first serious and sustained attack inside the Gloucester half, by which time this match should have been all over.

Gloucester scored one try in the opening half-hour but it would have been three had Cornell du Preez not made two try-saving tap tackles on Gloucester’s quick men, and it could have been four had Glouceste…