Edinburgh Rugby beat Ealing

Edinburgh Rugby beat Ealing Trailfinders but lose to Doncaster Knights in double-header

Transcript

00:00Hello, it's Graham Bean of the Scotsman at Murrayfield Stadium where Edinburgh have just played.

00:06A doubleheader at the Hive against two English Championship sides.

00:11First of all, they took on the Doncaster Knights and then they played the Ealing Trail Finders.

00:17They played two separate teams obviously and a young Edinburgh team were first up against Doncaster

00:22and they went down 43-33 to the team that finished third in the English Championship last season.

00:30It was a decent performance by the young side, who actually led at half-time 28-24 before being overhauled in the second period.

00:38They scored five tries, new signing Malayli Satala got two, he joined Edinburgh from Leicester Tigers in the summer

00:45and looked lively, finished very well for his second score.

00:49There was also tries for Tom Curry, Connor McAlpine, the young scrum half and Ross Wolfenden, the standoff,

00:55who had a good game, also converted four in the tries.

01:00But Doncaster were much stronger up front, as you would expect from an older, more experienced team

01:05and they pulled away in the second half, eventually winning with a margin of 10 points.

01:10After that was the main event of the evening with Ealing Trail Finders, who won the RFU Championship last season,

01:16taking on Edinburgh's more experienced side.

01:19Ealing, at the best of the early stages, were very fast out of the line, they led 14-10 at half-time.

01:28But Edinburgh were one in the end, they were a better proposition in the second half,

01:33didn't actually concede a point after the break, and scored another five tries.

01:37Ewan Ashman, Lewis Wells, Ben Villicott, Ross McCann and Hamish Watson, touching down.

01:44The final score being Edinburgh, 27, Ealing Trail Finders, 14.

01:50So a satisfactory night to work for Sean Everett's big squad, ahead of the URC opener,

01:55which is against Zebra in Italy next Saturday.

01:59So the final scores from the two games here at the High were Edinburgh, 33, Doncaster, 43 and then Edinburgh, 27, Ealing, 14.