We must reduce errors to have a chance, insists Weir

EDINBURGH will hope to halt a threegame losing streak at home to Cardiff next weekend, but standoff Duncan Weir says their error count needs to shrink to have any chance.

Despite going toe-totoe with Leinster at the RDS for the first 40 minutes, Edinburgh fell asunder in the second half and conceded six tries in total.

Try-scorer Weir was one of only a handful of players to emerge with their reputations unblemished but a cruel night of injuries impacted on his side’s ability to perform.

Tom Brown and Jack Cosgrove were forced off with suspected concussion, while interim manager Duncan Hodge confirmed there were ‘a number of others’ struggling.

‘The Cardiff game is huge. The city will be buzzing with the international the day after, so it will be a similar atmosphere to when we hosted Munster,’ said Weir. ‘We came just short that day, and we hope to right a few wrongs.

‘That’s three defeats in a row, so we need to get the scorelines back in our favour.

‘At the final whistle, being 25 points away from the Leinster scoreline is disappointing. We let ourselves down with our error count.

‘So we can take a lot of learning from how they execute once they create chance. Because we had opportunities out there.’