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Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter
Image source, SNSEdinburgh keep play-off hopes alive
This was simply a must-win game if Edinburgh were to retain any realistic hopes of reaching the URC play-offs, and while they were made to work for it by a dogged Scarlets side, they got the maximum five points they needed.
It threatened to be a very damaging evening as Scarlets made their early dominance pay to move into a 14-0 lead.
It was an error-strewn affair for the most part, with both sides guilty of failing to look after the ball, but Edinburgh found quality when they needed it.
The move that ended with Magnus Bradbury going over for Edinburgh's second try was the standout, and the home side were just about value for their win.
Bradbury brings the power
The number eight was central to Edinburgh wrestling control of the game.
His powerful carries were key to getting Edinburgh moving forward, and although he'll be disappointed that he lost the ball in contact on a few occasions, his physicality with the ball and at the breakdown were important.
He did superbly to take a difficult pass leading up to his try, which he finished well.
With Jack Dempsey's fitness still unclear before Scotland's Six Nations showdown with France next weekend, Bradbury could provide a big ball-carrying alternative.
Paterson shows his class
It was an eventful evening for Harry Paterson.
His counter-attack sparked the move that led to Bradbury's try, he was sent to the bin for a deliberate knock-on, and he scored the match-winning try.
Since making his Scotland debut with an impressive display against France two years ago, Paterson has struggled to stay fit.
Hopefully he can get a good run now because he is a tremendous footballer. His broken field running is exceptional and his game understanding is only going to get better.
Rugby fans, we asked for your views on Glasgow's loss to Connacht over the weekend. Here's a taste of what you had to say:
Doug: This defeat is at the hands of the SRU. They have hamstrung Glasgow by forcing them to get rid of key players. Credit to Connacht for their defence which was exceptional in that first quarter. We missed the influence of the likes of Henco Venter and Sebastian Cancelliere in these mid-Six Nations games. This, and the late defeat to Benetton, could prove costly for us getting top seeded for the knock-outs.
JT: I'm sure there will be talk of the foreign players no longer being available to Glasgow, but that team was plenty good enough to win. Disappointing.
Tom: Very poor performance all round. Backs toothless except for Kyle Rowe. Ben Afshar too slow and Adam Hastings looks like he wants to leave ASAP. Too much time trying to crash through and too little guile to find a gap. Waste of a big opportunity to cement place at the top of the league.
Chris: Just shows how difficult the league is if you provide the majority of internationals during the Six Nations. Lack of a specialist openside flanker is a worry. Angus Fraser is a great player but hybrid hooker/flanker. Thought Jack Oliver looked sharp and has something about him.
Ethan: Disappointing result, though thought Connacht was arguably the better team. Glasgow were on the backfoot most of the match and had several opportunities to score especially in the first quarter.
Think the team should have performed better given how long they've had to prepare as they looked very passive. Hard-fought losing bonus point away during a time when most players are with Scotland whilst Connacht remained predominantly unfazed, and thankfully due to Cardiff we are still on top of the table.
Seriously need to sharpen up for Leinster and plenty for Franco Smith to analyse. Rowe was arguably one of the few positives and hopefully he's done enough to get back into Scotland squad.
Anthony: This is exactly why Smith has every right to be furious with the SRU and David Nucifora. Glasgow would never have lost games like this, and the one against Scarlets, with the likes of Venter showing the young guys the way. We still need experienced heads when the majority of the top players are on international duty or injured. Glasgow's season may well be defined by two feeble outings against poor opposition.
Glasgow Warriors missed out on the chance to extend their lead at the top of the United Rugby Championship table as Sean Jansen's last-gasp try lifted Connacht to a dramatic victory at Dexcom Stadium.
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Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter
Image source, SNSHarry Paterson is proud of the way Edinburgh battled back after a difficult start to register a crucial bonus-point win over Scarlets in the United Rugby Championship.
The Welsh side raced into a 14-0 first-half lead but a double from Ben Vellacott and a Magnus Bradbury try turned the tide in Edinburgh's favour.
Although the visitors scored to level things up at 19-19 – while full-back Paterson was in the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on – the Scotland international scored Edinburgh's fourth to settle things.
"The first 20 minutes or so, that was very intense with all the turnovers and transition," Paterson told BBC Scotland.
"I was really proud of how we came out after half-time because that's been an issue for us. We've always spoken about coming out hot after half-time and we did, which I was really happy with.
"We were just overplaying a bit, we were using a lot of energy in our own half and then silly errors and then causing transition.
"But I think in the second half, we started playing more in their half and then really just getting after it on the transition as well, which worked. A couple of really nice tries from the boys straight after the half-time there.
"Momentum is everything, so hopefully we can just keep building from here."
Image source, SNSMosese Tuipulotu returned to action against Scarlets
Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt thinks his side's 24-19 comeback win over Scarlets has kept them in the hunt for a top-eight finish in the United Rugby Championship.
The victory lifts the capital side up from 13th to 11th and the South African told BBC Scotland: "We earmark our home games to get maximum points and we managed to do that in the Champions Cup as well.
"If results go your way, and we have a game in hand, we are definitely going to be in contention, but the main thing we have to concentrate on is Ulster at home in a couple of weeks."
Everitt was particularly pleased to have centre Mosese Tuipulotu back on the pitch after nine months on the sidelines with a knee injury.
"I am very happy for him," he said. "It wasn't easy. I've seen a player before struggle with that and that player was out for over 12 months.
"We've also got some other guys back and it's about time - we've had a long injury list for a couple of months and it was starting to hurt us.
"I thought Marshall Sykes went well tonight as well as Dylan Richardson, so we are getting some troops back at the right time."
Everitt admitted it was "quite a frantic game" in which his team took time to find their feet after the international break.
"If you look at the first 20 minutes, the ball getting turned over and we conceded a lot of turn overs in the first half," he said.
"I think the boys wanted to show that and play with speed and with that came the errors.
"The guys spoke about it at half time and came back and put together a good 10 minutes just after the break and that laid the foundation for the win.
"It was never going to be perfect tonight with being three weeks off - that's both teams."
Currie Chieftains have reached the Scottish Premiership play-off final after a convincing 36-7 defeat of Edinburgh rivals Heriot's.
Ayr will find out their semi-final opponents after Saturday's re-arranged match between Glasgow Hawks and Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians.
GHA need a victory to overtake Watsonian to secure a place in the match on Sunday, 15 March live on BBC Alba.
The final, also live on BBC Alba, is on Saturday, 21 March.
Ayr are strong favourites to secure the title having topped the league season after winning all 18 matches.
Currie were second with 11 wins and seven losses.
Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter
Image source, SNSJack Dempsey's recovery from injury is progressing quicker than anticipated and he is back training with the Scotland squad, according to Glasgow head coach Franco Smith.
The number eight suffered an arm injury in the Six Nations victory over England, with head coach Gregor Townsend describing it as "serious" and assistant Pete Horne saying he expected Dempsey to miss the remainder of the championship.
But things now look more promising and Dempsey is back on the training field before next Saturday's crucial match against France at Murrayfield.
"It's gone well," Smith said of Dempsey's recovery.
"I don't know if you've had any news from Scotland, he's obviously now in their books. But he got called into camp yesterday [Thursday], apparently he trained already with them yesterday, so that's good.
"That obviously tested the fitness and I'm quite excited to know that that injury is manageable."
Smith said he was not in a position to gauge Dempsey's readiness to take on the French.
"I don't know," he said.
Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter
Image source, SNSJack Oliver signed his first professional contract with Glasgow this week
Glasgow head coach Franco Smith says Jack Oliver, son of late Scotland international Greig, has all the tools to have a big future in the game.
Scrum-half Oliver made his first team debut against Zebre in January and this week signed his first professional contract with Warriors having previously been part of the Munster set-up.
His father Greig, who wore the nine jersey for Scotland three times between 1987 and 1991 and was a highly regarded youth coach in both Scotland and Ireland, died tragically in a paragliding accident in South Africa at the age of 58 in 2023.
Smith says the influence of his father is clear to see in Oliver's approach to his rugby.
"I think he's a clever guy, understands the game well," Smith told BBC Scotland.
"You can see where his DNA comes from, it's all evident and obvious in the way that he prepares for training, he enjoys contributing - he's a rugby person through and through. And that obviously comes only if you grow up in that kind of environment.
"Fantastic to have signed him on. I think there's a young group stepping up and a lot of them will stay on and become pros, I believe, so Jack is one of the leading guys in that perspective.
"He's still young, he's still 22 years old, his body will still develop quite a bit in the next few years from a physicality perspective, but he's already got the skill-set and he's already got the mentality that's good enough to play at a higher level.
"So as he physically develops and gets better, I think he's got a good future ahead of him."
Oliver has been named on the bench for leaders Glasgow's URC trip to face Connacht on Saturday.
Second-row Alex Samuel returns from injury in the only change from last month's bonus-point win over Munster.
Glasgow: McKay; Rowe, McDowall, Yule, Smith; Lancaster, Afshar; Bhatti, Stephen, Walker, Oguntibeju, Samuel, Ferrie, Fraser, Miller.
Replacements: Hiddleston, Schickerling, Talakai, Craig, Vailanu, Duncan, Oliver, Hastings.
Image source, SNSBoan Venter makes his 100th Edinburgh appearance and Mosese Tuipulotu returns from a nine-month injury absence in Friday night's URC game against Scarlets at the Hive.
Springbok Venter will become the club's 46th centurion and only seventh prop to reach the milestone in Edinburgh history.
Dylan Richardson and Marshall Sykes to the starting XV after injury, while fellow internationals D'arcy Rae and Magnus Bradbury are released from Scotland's Six Nations camp to feature.
Winger Malelili Satala makes his home debut and James Lang shifts to outside centre as Tuipulotu returns to the midfield for his first outing since suffering a knee injury last May.
Edinburgh are 13th in the URC table, seventh points adrift of the top eight with eight games left of the regulation campaign.
"We are confident because the destiny is in our hands," said head coach Sean Everitt.
"Every point that you can muster between now and the end of the season is of the utmost importance.
"Your home games become vital to get a result. We're going to have to show the same fight as we did at the end of last season to be able to come through."
Edinburgh: Paterson; Satala, Lang, Tuipulotu, Goosen; Thompson, Vellacott; Venter, Morris, Rae, Sykes, Young, Muncaster, Richardson, Bradbury.
Replacements: J Blyth-Lafferty, Whitcombe, O Blyth-Lafferty, Hunter-Hill, Boyle, Shiel, Scott, O'Conor.
BBC Scotland's Andy Burke has been answering some of your Scottish rugby questions.
Andy asked: The most likely scenario for Scotland now looks like third in the table with two wins. Is that progress?
Andy answered: No, I don't think so. Scotland have won two games in each of the last two Six Nations – and three of the last four – so if they finish with the same again, I do not think you can convincingly argue it represents progress.
Getting to three wins will be very tough. France look as if they are on an unstoppable march to a Grand Slam. Ireland served a timely reminder at Twickenham on how formidable they remain – not that Scotland needed any reminding given they have lost their last 11 games in that fixture.
So picking up another win in this Six Nations is a big ask, but that's what required if Scotland are to show they have really kicked on.
Ronald asked: Did Duhan Van der Merwe and Blair Kinghorn do enough to keep their place against France and Ireland or are they too big a risk defensively?
Andy answered: I think Blair Kinghorn keeps his spot. He is a devastating runner and Scotland will need to ask questions of the French defence which Kinghorn can do. He is also very familiar with the French team, playing alongside many of them at Toulouse.
I would be surprised if Duhan van der Merwe starts. He did try to get himself into the game in Cardiff but it just didn't happen for him.
Darcy Graham has shown better form and I think he starts in the back three alongside Kyle Steyn, with Tom Jordan on the bench.
Jim asked: Do Scotland stand a chance at Murrayfield against France? From watching them it seems they've hardly got out of second gear and have dismantled everything they've come up against.
Andy answered: There's always a chance! Gregor Townsend has won five of his 13 matches against France (in all competitions) so it's far from impossible that Scotland can do it again.
This France team does seem to be a cut above anything else in the Six Nations and it's hard to imagine what kind of game Scotland can play to beat them.
However, many of the same things were said of an England team on a 12-match winning run and Scotland came up with a game plan to put them away.
France are a much better side than England and I expect them to come to Murrayfield and win, but if this Six Nations has taught us anything it's that upsets can happen.
Tom English and Andy Burke answer listener questions and look back on Scotland's Six Nations win against Wales in Cardiff.
Have Scotland turned a corner? Is it redemption time for Townsend?
With the two of their toughest games in the tournament ahead of them are two wins out of five enough to silence the Townsend critics?
Was beating Wales a bigger win for Scotland than beating England?
Image source, Getty ImagesDarcy Graham says losing his starting place for Scotland helped fuel his impactful performance off the bench in last weekend's Six Nations win over Wales.
Graham scored his 35th Test try in the 23-26 win - taking him level with Duhan van der Merwe as his country's all-time leading try scorer.
He has been among the replacements for Scotland's past three outings and he admits it has been difficult.
"It's been a tough couple of months," Graham said.
"Coming off the benches is hard. It's been something totally different and I've had to adjust to it.
"The way the team's announced you have a wee 10-minute sulk and then you're straight on the training park to prove why you should be there."
Asked if being dropped had given him added motivation, Graham said: "Of course. You always want to be starting in these big games.
"But the way Kyle [Steyn] is playing he deserves every minute that he's playing. Steyno's playing unbelievable.
"He's world class and he's raised the bar, especially when I came into camp as I had to catch up.
"I'm glad to still be involved and bring my energy because these wins are special."
Graham said his try against Wales came after a quick nod with fly-half Finn Russell.
Wales had just kicked a penalty to extend their lead to 23-12 before Graham gathered Russell's restart to score.
"Finn said as they were taking the penalty 'Darcy, be ready'. I've seen him sprint up to the halfway line and he gave me the nod," the winger said.
"I gave him a nod and I knew it was on. So I just went as hard as I could for that ball and got a lucky bounce.
"He's obviously seen that space and it worked out. I'll probably never get a bounce like that again."
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