5 months ago
United Rugby Championship
Edinburgh (3) 3
Pen: Scott
Glasgow Warriors (7) 21
Tries: Dobie 2, Horne Cons: Hastings, Horne, Lancaster
Glasgow Warriors made it back-to-back wins complete Edinburgh pinch triumph successful a mostly drab matter astatine Murrayfield to triumph nan 1872 Cup for nan 4th successive season.
Holding a 24-12 aggregate lead from past weekend's first leg, Jamie Dobie's first-half effort gave Glasgow a 7-3 half-time advantage, pinch Cammy Scott kicking Edinburgh's only points of nan half.
The 2nd play was mostly a non-event until George Horne burrowed complete from adjacent scope and Dobie scored a awesome 2nd to seal nan win.
After a blunt attacking capacity astatine Hampden successful nan first leg, Edinburgh had stated their purpose to occurrence much shots this clip around, but though Scott knocked complete a punishment to put nan location broadside into an early lead, they erstwhile again grounded to connection immoderate meaningful threat.
There was nary shortage of desire and physicality connected show but nan lucifer struggled to get successful to immoderate benignant of flow, not slightest because of a big of wounded stoppages throughout.
The first existent infinitesimal of value came from Glasgow fly-half Adam Hastings, who collected a walk from Horne, stepped wrong a defender and delivered a precise cross-field footwear for Dobie to people successful nan corner.
Edinburgh's onslaught was again failing to connection much, though they did get a spot of encouragement pinch half an hr to spell erstwhile Glasgow flanker Angus Fraser was sent to nan sin-bin for a precocious changeable connected Scott.
Even nan numerical advantage could not spark Edinburgh into life and nan action adjacent either try-line was almost non-existent.
Warriors yet roused themselves for 1 past push and contempt immoderate hopeless defence, Edinburgh were breached erstwhile Horne sniped adjacent nan statement to spell complete for nan game-clinching try.
Dobie added nan icing by scoring his 2nd successful beautiful fashion, deftly kicking up and winning nan sprint to nan statement arsenic Glasgow ended an uninspiring matter successful good style.
Edinburgh: Goosen, Graham, Currie, Lang, Wells, Scott, Vellacott; Schoeman, Morris, Hill, Young, Gilchrist, McConnell, Richardson, Bradbury.
Replacements: J. Blyth-Lafferty, Jones, O. Blyth-Lafferty, Callum Hunter-Hill, Douglas, Shiel, Thompson, Brown.
Glasgow Warriors: Smith, Steyn, McDowall, Tuipulotu, Dobie, Hastings, Horne; Schickerling, Matthews, Talakai, Craig, Samuel, M. Fagerson, Fraser, Dempsey.
Replacements: Hiddleston, McBeth, Z. Fagerson, Cummings, Brown, Darge, Afshar, Lancaster.
Referee: Hollie Davidson
