{"id":703589,"date":"2026-01-18T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/703589\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:29:14","slug":"weak-edinburgh-dont-deserve-their-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/703589\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak Edinburgh don\u2019t deserve their place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IF Edinburgh fail to qualify for the last-16 in the European Cup, good riddance. By putting out a severely weakened team against Bath on Friday at The Rec, and taking a nine-try 63-10 battering, they don\u2019t deserve to be there. The European Cup is being devalued as the premium club competition in the world by coaches, like Edinburgh\u2019s South African import, Sean<br \/>Everitt, who are determined to \u201cmanage their squads\u201d rather than go full tilt.<br \/>Any team demeaning the competition should be fined, and put on a red card warning of being ejected by EPCR if they offen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IF Edinburgh fail to qualify for the last-16 in the European Cup, good riddance. By putting out a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[5012,748,1102,4884,11653,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-703589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-bath","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-premium","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115914458106298978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703589","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=703589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}