how they played against Glasgow, winning in the last minutes<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 so they\u2019re going to be a tough team.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have to play for our city, our fans at the Hive. Make them proud and capture some hearts, showing the physicality we\u2019ve shown against Munster but a lot more discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we\u2019re on it we can go toe to toe against big teams and then sometimes we let teams off the hook, let them back in with a soft moment, and that\u2019s something that we\u2019re raising now, that you speak about. It\u2019s unacceptable now.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo take the learnings from the first two away games. Take the points. We\u2019re already in a better place than last season in terms of points, so we can really use that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you have to learn quickly and you have to implement and adapt. You can\u2019t take half a URC season [to adapt] and then there\u2019s the pressure to finish in the top eight to top four. You have to hit the drum now, you can\u2019t miss a beat from now on. Take the learnings on board.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, the reviews we have, we\u2019re brutally honest with each other. It\u2019s not like a bloody gentleman\u2019s club where you rock up and you get your wages.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys are putting a lot of effort in and it\u2019s unacceptable how we sometimes let ourselves down and also the fans. And that\u2019s why it would be nice to have all our fans back at a full stadium at the Hive to really play for them [this weekend].<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to answer your question, the fight the boys showed on Friday is actually something to be proud of, you know? To have four yellow cards and a few things against you, with all that pressure, the boys still fought bloody hard. Towards the end we created that scrum penalty, to create another maul penalty, and then to almost put yourself in a position similar to how Benetton beat Glasgow. Surely that accounts for the fight we show for the city and for the people and for ourselves as a club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schoeman was asked if he was frustrated that Edinburgh didn\u2019t get a final minute penalty which would have clinched a win in Munster last Friday, and was circumspect in his response.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it was like a lot of swimming in the ocean there but you have to just take it on the chin and be even better,\u201d he said, reflecting on how it looked like two or three Munster players managed to slip between binds to bring down a powerful Edinburgh maul as it entered the home team\u2019s 22 only for a scrum to be awarded to the Irish side by referee Ben Whitehouse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\u201cBut you shouldn\u2019t make it a 50-50, you should just see Edinburgh jerseys and no other jerseys. Make it easier for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another player in a position to bring valuable lessons from a summer on international duty back to Edinburgh is fellow loose-head prop Boan Venter,<\/strong> who was a surprise call-up to the South Africa squad.<\/p>\n\u201cHe had an excellent summer also,\u201d agreed Schoeman. \u201cI think he played four or five of the Tests and they\u2019ve obviously won the Rugby Championship back-to-back, and they were some tough, gruelling games, [especially at] the set-piece.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, he can bring a lot of learnings back to Edinburgh from his experiences in mauls and scrums. He\u2019s in good shape as well, fit and strong, so I\u2019m really proud of him also.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think, massive credit to him. He\u2019s good enough and the opportunity came so he pursued his dream, and credit has to go for the work he\u2019s put in since he\u2019s joined Edinburgh. You know all the watt bikes, the squats we\u2019ve done, the conditioning. Also the mental resilience through the injuries, through selection, through all of these things, he stayed strong. So really, really happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSometimes [you look to] the coaches, the ref, but no one can do it, you have to do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500196,"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-500195","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500195","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=500195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}