Everitt, who knows Richardson well from their time working together at Sharks, explained that the decision to start Richardson as hooker should not be an indication that he sees that as the 26-year-old\u2019s primary position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just more for him getting back and integrating back into rugby after the injury,\u201d the coach explained. \u201cHe did have a back injury and putting him in the front-row is not ideal at this stage. We\u2019ll slowly implement him into scrumming sessions. He can be used as a hybrid.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been talk of Dylan Richardson coming to Edinburgh for many a year now \u2013 that was before my time \u2013 but it\u2019s exciting to see a guy that I watched grow up through school years and his representative rugby in his age group \u2026 it\u2019s almost weird in a way that you come across the ocean and you end up at the same club. I know that he\u2019s a fierce competitor with a massive competitive spirit. It\u2019s exciting to see what he will bring tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n
The selection does mean that Freddy Douglas<\/strong> once again has to make do with a place on the bench, meaning the 20-year-old full Scotland cap is still waiting for only his second start in an Edinburgh shirt. When he comes on, it will be eighth appearance for the club.<\/p>\n \u201cFor us, it\u2019s about getting Dylan going again,\u201d said Everitt. \u201cWe can see where Dylan is from a fitness point of view, and then Freddy can come on and take over. That\u2019s part of our plan with Ben [Muncaster] and Dylan returning from injury.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have put last week\u2019s postponement behind us, and we\u2019re focussed entirely on the task at hand. It\u2019s a completely different challenge this week \u2013 a tough test against Munster at a difficult venue in Cork,\u201d Everitt added.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been a massive amount of growth already within this group. With so many new and fresh faces, particularly the exciting young players coming through. There\u2019s a great energy throughout the squad.<\/p>\n \u201cThe preparation this week has been excellent, and we\u2019re determined to put in a performance that makes the Edinburgh fans proud.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a daunting place to come and play and Cork and Munster have a proud record here, but in saying that Munster have got a new head coach in Clayton McMillan,<\/strong> so we expect a different Munster this time round. We also have to understand that different coaches bring different tactics and we\u2019re aware of that. With our review we\u2019ve seen slight changes to the way Munster play. So a different game altogether than what we had in February.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I also think we put in some really good performances post-Munster last season, so it did give the guys a lot of confidence, and this is an opportunity for us to win away from home again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Edinburgh (v Munster @ Virgin Media Park on Friday, 7.45pm kick-off BST \u2013 live on Premier Sports):<\/strong> W Goosen; D Graham, P O\u2019Conor, J Lang, D van der Merwe; B Healy, B Vellacott; P Schoeman, E Ashman, D Rae, M Sykes, S Skinner, L McConnell, D Richardson, M Bradbury \u00a9.\u00a0Replacements:<\/strong> P Harrison, B Venter, P Hill, G Young, F Douglas, B Muncaster, C Shiel, H Paterson.<\/p>\n Munster:<\/strong> M Haley; C Nash, T Farrell, S O\u2019Brien, A Smith; J Hanrahan, P Patterson; M Milne, D Barron \u00a9, O Jager, J Kleyn, F Wycherley, J O\u2019Donoghue, R Quinn, G Coombes. Replacements:\u00a0<\/strong>L Barron, J Wycherley, J Ryan, E Edogbo, B Gleeson, E Coughlan, T Butler, D Kelly.<\/p>\n Unavailable to Edinburgh:<\/strong> Charlie McCaig (knee), Rhys Litterick (achilles), Ross Thompson (toe), Matt Currie (vertigo), Rob Carmichael (wrist), Connor Boyle (knee), Mosese Tuipulotu (knee), Luke Crosbie (hamstring)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Listen to this week\u2019s TOL POD here:<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everitt, who knows Richardson well from their time working together at Sharks, explained that the decision to start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,85185,1102,10753,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-divi","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-rugby","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115345380102594121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}