Games for the season look a bit like someone who makes one tear in a public bus. It happened for the most part nobody mentions it. Later you could say: “Jeez someone farted on the bus yesterday and it was ripe,” but apart from that novelty value, you quickly forget that it once happened.
Pre-season competitions are on the websites of most clubs that go back a few years, but then they leave a cliff.
Regular games – records go back more than 10 years.
Try – not count in statistics, unless scored in competitive competitions
Performances – are not noticed until something is at stake.
But for a man who loves a stat as I, they have merit. It is where future stars, such as Connor Boyle, get their first outings. There you will find your club that plays strange teams, as Edinburgh did when they played Romania in such a fixed value.
And in the case of Edinburgh, where a clear lack of imagination is evident from the fact that we have played 8 times in Newcastle Falcons in pre-season matches since 2007.
And because the luminaires get so little love for the season, it becomes difficult to find details of the games if you will see in the half -completed graph below. Yes, I googled. Yes, I went to pages 3 and 4 of the search results, yes I have harvested YouTube, but this list remains incomplete.
The question is, do the results of the preseason influence the actual season? In the case of Edinburgh probably not.
With reference to the reservation above in the past 14 years, Edinburgh has both extracted from their pre-season devices.
In 2011 we won away from the sale and at home at Newcastle. Then we finished 11th in the competition. In 2015 we played 2 games at home and won both against Romania and Ulster and then finished 9th in the competition.
These were perhaps our worst seasons ever in the competition.
If you go a little further until 2008, we have also won both pre-season races against Wasps and Bath. That year, those early victories seemed to be good, because we finished 2nd in the competition.
That was our best competition ever.
So pre-season of clean sweeps cannot really predict what will happen when the real competition starts, but from today I can’t tell you what two defeats can do to you for the season, because although the table is incomplete, it has not happened anymore since 2014
Armageddon or Nirvana only time will learn.
As mentioned earlier, this table is incomplete. If you have results/dates of the games they miss, let me know in the comments or by e -mail on burghwatch@gmail.com.
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