Edinburgh top Pool 5 to make it a Scottish

By LUKE JARMYN
RICHARD Cockerill believes his improving Edinburgh side can topple anyone at home after they continued their unbeaten run at Murrayfield to seal a home quarter-final place for the first time in seven years.
Fly-half Jaco van der Merwe’s masterful playmaking performance off the back of their scrum dominance frustrated the French team into continued ill-discipline and Edinburgh capitalised.
Cockerill said: “Whoever comes here in the quarterfinals, Munster or Exeter, we would like to think we could give them a fright.
There’s no reason why not. It’s in ou...

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