Edinburgh beat Llanelli 33-32 tonight. Good game and Edinburgh should have one easily had it not been for the dubious sin binnings of Kelly (no idea, no one knew what that was for) and Southwell (Llanelli player chipped him and Southwell was in the way and raised his hands, granted he didin't move out of the way either but he's not obliged too, to signal he had no intention to tackle...Llanelli player made most of it falling over like he'd been shot).There are no complaints about Taylor's binning though.
Ref missed a shocking a dangerous tackle on Patterson by James. Patterson kicked through and James made a high and late tackle on Patterson, and the ref gave a scrum to Llanelli when the Edinburgh players threw the ball away in disgust (least that's what i think they did, I was too outrage). The other winger spear tackled Southwell and only saw yellow, but I expect him to be cited for it...though he did apologise straight away which is fair enough and didn't protest. We were by far the more dominant team and Llanelli scored a couple of tries which I doubt. The second try had 2 or 3 forward passes in the build up ( but the ref was at an angle so I guess what he can't see he can't give, the third try was from that stupid call by the ref on Southwell and the 4th looked like it was dropped on the line.
Edinburgh generally played well, save for the Llanelli presure early after we scored first , and was a big improvement on last week (though I still blame the ref last week). I was impressed by the Llanelli 10 and 15 though...they looked really useful.
So that means Llanelli won't get a best runner up spot.
