Edinburgh have to build

“Build it and they will come” is the famously misremembered quote from the movie Field of Dreams but for Edinburgh Rugby and Myreside at present it remains a case of “build it and they will reserve judgment until convinced it is worth coming to”.

The official attendance for last Friday’s first home game – a 35-18 win over the Dragons – was 3,324, which is over two thousand short of capacity at the revamped George Watson’s College ground, withthetwostands behindthe posts, which are the centrepiece of the Myreside project, woefully populated.

It would be premature and unfair to form conclusions about the move from the cavernous and clearly unsuitable BT Murrayfield to an enhanced, compact club ground after just one home game but it is clear that a lot of work lies ahead if Edinburgh are to replicate anything approaching what Glasgow