2010–11 Edinburgh Rugby season

During the 2010–11 season, the Edinburgh Rugby team came 8th out of the 12 teams in the PRO12 league, and played in the pool stage of the Heineken Cup.

Edinburgh 2010 / 2011
Ground(s)Murrayfield Stadium (Capacity: 67,130)
Coach(es)Scotland Rob Moffat
Captain(s)Scotland Roddy Grant
Top scorerScotland Chris Paterson (133 pts.)
Most triesNetherlands Tim Visser
(14 tries)[1]
League(s)Celtic League
1st kit
2nd kit

Squad list edit

Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.

Player Position Union
Fraser Brown Hooker   Scotland
Sean Crombie Hooker   Scotland
Ross Ford Hooker   Scotland
Finlay Gillies Hooker   Scotland
Andrew Kelly Hooker   Scotland
Alun Walker Hooker   Scotland


Geoff Cross Prop   Scotland
Jack Gilding Prop   Scotland
Robin Hislop Prop   Scotland
Allan Jacobsen Prop   Scotland
Nicky Little Prop   Scotland
Lewis Niven Prop   Scotland
Colin Philips Prop   Scotland
Kyle Traynor Prop   Scotland
Dave Young Prop   Ireland


Grant Gilchrist Lock   Scotland
Craig Hamilton Lock   Scotland
Esteban Lozada Lock   Argentina
Scott Macleod Lock   Scotland
Fraser McKenzie Lock   Scotland
Steven Turnbull Lock   Scotland


Struan Dewar Flanker   Scotland
Roddy Grant Flanker   Scotland
Alan MacDonald Flanker   Scotland
Scott Newlands Flanker   Scotland
Ross Rennie Flanker   Scotland
David Denton Number 8   Scotland
Netani Talei Number 8   Fiji
Player Position Union
Mike Blair Scrum-half   Scotland
Greig Laidlaw Scrum-half   Scotland
Ross Samson Scrum-half   Scotland


Alex Blair Fly-half   Scotland
David Blair Fly-half   Scotland
Phil Godman Fly-half   Scotland
Gregor Hunter Fly-half   Scotland


David Bishop Centre   Wales
Ben Cairns Centre   Scotland
Nick De Luca Centre   Scotland
Andrew Easson Centre   Scotland
Alex Grove Centre   Scotland
John Houston Centre   Scotland
James King Centre   Scotland


Chris Bloomfield Wing   England
Lee Jones Wing   Scotland
Andrew Turnbull Wing   Scotland
Tim Visser Wing   Netherlands
Simon Webster Wing   Scotland
Mark Robertson Wing   Scotland


Tom Brown Fullback   Scotland
Chris Paterson Fullback   Scotland
Jim Thompson Fullback   Scotland

PRO12 League table edit

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA Try bonus Losing bonus Pts
1   Munster 22 19 0 3 496 327 +169 44 22 5 2 83
2   Leinster 22 15 1 6 495 336 +159 50 25 5 3 70
3   Ulster 22 15 1 6 480 418 +62 44 35 3 2 67
4   Ospreys 22 12 1 9 553 418 +135 56 29 6 7 63
5   Scarlets 22 12 1 9 503 453 +50 49 43 5 7 62
6   Cardiff Blues 22 13 1 8 479 392 +87 37 33 3 3 60
7   Newport Gwent Dragons 22 10 1 11 444 462 −18 47 49 3 4 49
8   Edinburgh 22 9 0 13 421 460 −39 39 44 2 5 43
9   Connacht 22 7 1 14 394 459 −65 32 44 3 6 39
10   Benetton Treviso 22 9 0 13 374 502 −128 29 58 0 2 38
11   Glasgow Warriors 22 6 1 15 401 543 −142 33 48 1 6 33
12   Aironi 22 1 0 21 247 517 −270 21 52 0 8 12

Under the standard bonus point system, points are awarded as follows:

  • 4 points for a win
  • 2 points for a draw
  • 1 bonus point for scoring 4 tries (or more) (Try bonus)
  • 1 bonus point for losing by 7 points (or fewer) (Losing bonus)
Green background (rows 1 to 4) are play-off places.
Correct as of 7 May 2011. Source: RaboDirect PRO12 Archived 2014-01-17 at the Wayback Machine

Heineken Cup edit

Pool stage edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Tries". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2010.