FRANK TALKING

we’re not here to lie down, we’re here to get wins. There are a few exciting weeks coming up leading into a busy part of the season.

“We’re getting to the business end. Saturday was a good start but we have to build on that.”

Edinburgh, by contrast, have progression in Europe very much in their hopes as the new year dawns, with the hope of a home quarter-final in the Challenge Cup the aim.

A double header against holders Stade Francais starts next weekend at Myreside and centre Phil Burleigh admits it is very much in the players’ thoughts.

He said: “Most guys will say we just think week to week. We’ve got the

ZANDER FAGERSON Southern Kings on Friday, we’ll take a lot of learning a lot of things from the Glasgow game and look to move forward in the Pro14 first. We’d like to take four or five points from the Kings game.

“But yes it’s something to look forward to against Stade Francais. A good European match, hopefully we can put them away and get a home quarter-final. We’d like to win both games of course.

“It was really good to beat them last season but they are a different outfit now. We’ll have a look at them in the coming weeks and see how we go about beating them.”

Burleigh insisted that Edinburgh would take a lot from the two games against Glasgow having won one and competed well in the other, looking arguably the more dangerous side with ball in hand at Scotstoun. “Yes

“It wasn’t fun but in the long run it will benefit us. It showed us we can’t just rock up and start throwing the ball away”