Content area
Full Text
Bath 55 Edinburgh 26
Scott Hastings is a "seen it, done it, got the T-shirt" sort of rugby player - a Grand Slam here, a World Cup there, a Lions tour somewhere else - and the chances of his discovering anything new after a decade at the top were not so much slim as non-existent. Then he went to Bath.
"That," he said, after leading Edinburgh in the opening round of the Heineken Cup and conceding seven tries to the English champions, "is something we must aspire to. We all learned a lesson out there and I include myself in that. It was a huge jump in standard for us, a step into the future and if we didn't suspect it before, we now know that there is a world of difference between the best club rugby in England and the game we play at home."
All the more reason, then, for the most-capped player in Scottish history to feel proud of the way his disparate band of underdogs survived their European Championship initiation.
According to Graham Hogg, their coach, Edinburgh's scratch...