In The Scotsman, Bill Lothian delivers his verdict on Edingburgh's game against Glasgow at Firhill.
"In the build-up to the first leg of the annual double-header with Glasgow an Edinburgh Rugby player compared the team's specially designed strip-of-many-colours to a packet of Opal Fruits. Wrong. Opal Fruits leave a pleasant taste whereas Edinburgh's performance in a 30-18 defeat by Glasgow at Firhill left a sensation equivalent to an oral rinse using soap powder.
For the first time in 14 matches this season Edinburgh failed to score a try but would that is where woes begin and end. Alas, it is now over 240 minutes since Edinburgh actually managed a touchdown in meetings with their supposed arch-rivals (all lost) but again let's keep things in perspective.
For 61 minutes the boot of David Blair kept Edinburgh in touch to the extent that the stand off went within one of equalling Chris Paterson's six-year-old record of seven penalties in a league fixture but that was the merest of sub-plots in the greater of scheme of things.
And the bigger picture? Glasgow came from 13-18 behind in the final 19 minutes which was bad enough but it could have been so, so different and that is what must have really stung travelling supporters in a crowd of 7062 as they journeyed back along a foggy and frozen M8."
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