Chris Paterson was again the hero for Edinburgh
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David Ferguson hails a victory for Edinburgh that means more than you might think in The Scotsman.
"There was much of a meaningful nature to take from what was, in Heineken Cup terms, another wonderful but ultimately meaningless finale to the pool ties for Edinburgh on Saturday.
“Soaked to the skin by another battering from the heavens – Edinburgh have experienced the excesses of snow, wind and rain in their last three European fixtures – a squad of visibly tired players trooped from the Murrayfield turf heads bowed but much brighter in heart than thepink-shirted Parisian foe they had put to the sword with more greater dominance than the scoreboard suggested.
“Edinburgh showed they had learned from their hammering in Paris at the onset of the 2009-10 Heineken Cup and were improved at the breakdown, Ross Rennie fashioning turnovers superbly until he was replaced after 33 minutes with an injured knee – the other one to that which has kept him out for much of the past two years, it was stated afterwards – while the forward pack dominated the set-piece for long spells and had the Stade forwards back-peddling furiously in driving mauls that moved 20 or 30 metres.”
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