RICHARD COCKERILL’S EDINBURGH bounced back from successive home defeats to hammer a much-changed Scarlets side 52-14 to move one step closer to the Pro14 playoffs.
An eight-try, bonus-point victory for the Scottish outfit is bad news for Ulster, whose slim hopes of a top-three finish in Conference B have been dented further.
Edinburgh sit nine points clear of the province, who have a game in hand, and Ulster must hope Edinburgh take nothing from their final game against Glasgow Warriors, as well as claiming bonus-point wins in their final two outings, to stand a chance of progressing to the playoffs.
It is, however, good news for Leinster as they now need just two more points from their games against Benetton — tonight at the RDS — and the inter-pro visit to Connacht in a fortnight to assure themselves of top spot in Conference B, and thus a home semi-final.
Duhan van der Merwe scored two tries as the hosts ran riot at Murrayfield, with Edinburgh now heading into their final game against the Warriors in the knowledge a win would secure them a place in the quarter-finals, while a top-two finish is not behind the realms of possibility.
Cockerill’s side ran in eight tries in total during a ruthless performance which sees the gap between themselves and Scarlets — who named a weak side with one eye on next week’s Champions Cup semi-final — close to just one point.
Blair Kinghorn, van der Merwe, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Magnus Bradbury all crossed inside the opening 24 minutes to secure a bonus-point for Edinburgh and although Scarlets struck back through Tom Varndell and Dan Jones, the home side scored four more tries after the interval to strengthen their grip on third place.
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Shot clock, warning on first offence, then stroke penalties on repeat offenders and serial offenders get a percentage deduction on prize money.
Sent out first an hour before the first grouping ON HIS OWN and monitored. 2 nd round the same..make the cut..the same for 3 Tournaments…see how he enjoys his golf then…he’ll soon realize that golf is about sharing with your partner(s) and the craic that he’ll miss. There is a way to tackle this and ISOLATE the problem…
@Desmond Cassidy: Their is a way to tackle is but this is most definitely not it
I think it would be better if they put a time limit on a round. E.g 4hrs 30mins and anything over is 1 shot penalty, 5hrs + = 2 shot penalty. Removes a shot clock and allows them to choose how to reduce there time, so if they want more time for shots make it up else where. Removes the need to clock everyone for every shot.
@Sean Murphy: what happens if you have a fast player (or two) paired with a slow player (or two)? You seem to be suggesting penalizing the fast player.
@Joey Navinski: Don’t get you? I’m saying they should put max time on each group from their allocated tee time to a reasonable pace, which on tour for a 3 ball is no more than 4hrs 30mins I would say. So then it’s between the group to keep up to pace? If they know they will be penalised a stroke if they go over time surely it will make them play or move quicker!
@Sean Murphy: i get what you’re saying but I don’t think it’s fair to ask fast players to police slow players, especially when most groups on any given day will have no slow players so those groups would not have that extra responsibility.
Your proposal puts unnecessary pressure/responsibility on ONLY the fast players who are paired with slow players.
Lads,
Here is a simple way to start… Just have a clock on the worst shots and have a leaderboard (wall of shame). Then run a league of sham during the year…
Have award at the end of the week and end year… Then when TV shows him next week or for the next year have a turtle/guy sleeping appear in the corner.
Seems a bit more fun and might work…