Everitt’s future is still unclear with his contract due to expire at the end of the season.
Scottish Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson stressed the importance of continuity when announcing contract extensions for Smith at Glasgow and Gregor Townsend with the national team, and it is telling that there is no word on whether he will be offered a new one.
The Toulon win demonstrated what this team is capable of, but the dreary play offered up in both legs of the 1872 Cup showed that the club’s inconsistent nature is still prevalent.
This is not just an Everitt problem.
A succession of coaches – from Alan Solomons to Richard Cockerill to Mike Blair and plenty before – have all tried and failed to turn Edinburgh into proper contenders.
Cockerill got a tune out of them for a while, Blair too more fleetingly, but there always seems to be a return to factory settings for Edinburgh sooner rather than later.
Everitt has had his moments too, with a positive second half to last season delivering a United Rugby Championship quarter-final and a Challenge Cup semi-final.
That should have been the springboard to a more positive start to this season, but at the end of the calendar year Edinburgh are 11th place in the league and facing another uphill battle to get into the end-of-season play-offs.
Glasgow will be there as they always are, having set a standard that drives them towards the top end every season.
What Edinburgh would give for such a foundation in the capital.
They have been searching for it for an age, but seem no closer to finding the answers.