Edinburgh look to have a weight/bulk advantage in the second & back rows - so expect a good proportion of the usual lineout/rolling maul attrition tactics.

Andy & Dan might be more able to compete on their throw, but it would have to be a major improvement from the Borders match to be a sucessful tactic.

On the other hand, a Godman/Joiner/Laney midfield offers posibilities.

I wonder if any internationals will be "invited" to take a seat at half-time this week - and if so who?

Hah! I note that Kenny Logan is on the bench and, therefore, will not be playing a full game. Is this on the instructions of Matt Williams? Is Kenny back in the minds of the selectors?

More pedantry for Big Blue

What connects the Inter City, Glasgow Accies and Glasgow Rangers? The answer is Burnbank.

The story goes that in May 1872 Grange Cricket Club opened their new ground across the lane from Raeburn Place, and to mark the occasion they organised a grand cricket match between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This day proved successful and as many of the players also played rugby it was decided to repeat the exercise in the winter as a rugby match. As they say, the rest is history.

So was born the Inter City, the oldest inter-district match in the Rugby world, the first being played in December of that same year at Glasgow Accies’ original home Burnbank, a pitch that lay between St George’s Cross and Kelvinbridge in the west end of Glasgow. This ground was also home briefly to Glasgow Rangers in 1875 who played their first match there on 11th September against the mighty Vale of Leven the match ending in a 1-1 draw.

The return Inter City match was played in Edinburgh in January 1873. The two Inter City matches were used as trials for the Scotland v England match which was played on Monday 3rd March 1873 at West of Scotland’s ground at Hamilton Crescent in Partick. Even then rugby and cricket had to live together sharing facilities.

Following the game, representatives of the clubs of Scotland retired to the Glasgow Academy then situated in Elmbank St and formed the Scottish Football Union on a similar basis to the Rugby Football Union in England. The R.F.U. at that time boasted both West of Scotland and Glasgow Academicals as members and both clubs had accepted the R.F.U as rule makers having previously adhered to the Green Book since 1868. On one occasion West and Glasgow Accies had actually referred the matter of a disputed try to the editor of Bell’s Life in London for an opinion.

Crowds had by now started to appear at matches to the extent that West received a bill from the Partick Burgh Police office in 1895 for "three shillings" for the services of a constable at a derby match with Glasgow Accies.

The Inter City which was played at the Old Hampden Park in 1885 which later became Cathkin Park home of the sorely missed Third Lanark, then played regularly at Old Anniesland until the late 1950s when the Glasgow High School Club fell into dispute with the Scottish Rugby Union over compensation for weed infestation arising from straw that had been laid on the pitch by the S.R.U. as frost protection. During this period Old Anniesland also saw the Combined Edinburgh/Glasgow side play the Springboks in 1951 and Bob Stuart’s All Blacks in 1953, and also a combined Glasgow Accies/Glasgow High School FP team take on a British Lions Select in 1955.One of the 1950s Inter City matches at Old Anniesland saw a young Bill McLaren give one of his first live match broadcasts.

With the advent of floodlighting funded by that great benefactor of Scottish rugby Charles Hepburn the Inter City matches were then transferred to Hughenden.

Rowans Rugby Guide the bible for Scottish Rugby which takes up space in Big Blue's home for the best part of a century recorded all the Inter City results.