IN the pecking order for the PRO12 title, Edinburgh are in an all too familiar position. They are nowhere – but then it’s been a long time since Scotland’s capital team have been anywhere in the top half of the table.
Since the expansion to 12 clubs with the Italian dimension seven seasons ago, they have finished 8th, 11th, 10th, 8th, 8th, and 9th. They currently lie in a similar position and that long run of unbroken mediocrity is a very good reason why Edinburgh and Richard Cockerill are made for each other.
Who knows, it may yet turn out to be, if not a marriage made in...