2 from 2 at the start of the season?
It certainly looks like things are improving at Edinburgh and Richard Cockerill goes into his second home game looking for another win against an opposition he would hope to beat, in the shape of Benetton Treviso.
If the team is not yet starting to look settled, the first choice squad is, with some rotation going on but a core of players who have started at least 2 out of the 3 games.
Chris Dean has recovered from the knock he took last week against the Dragons with Nathan Fowles the only change to the starting backline.
Up front, the hunt for a settled loosehead prop continues with Michele Rizzo given the nod having impressed some but not all on his debut. Edinburgh have this week signed hooker/prop Cammy Fenton on a 1 year deal as the search for reliable cover – in the absence of three first choice looseheads – goes on.
3 from 3 then?
It certainly looks possible, if they concentrate. Treviso coach Kieran Crowley is missing a swathe of first choice players with some 18 unavailable including Alessandro Zanni, Marty Banks and one time Edinburgh and Highlanders man Nasi Manu.
Edinburgh, who are largely at full strength from shirts 2-15, need to make sure this isn’t a banana skin that makes them wobbly on their feet going into the harder rounds and the early stages of Europe which are not that far off.
So we’ll take it if it is on offer come 80 minutes though, as far tougher games await.
Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn, Damien Hoyland, Chris Dean, Robbie Fruean, Jason Harries, Duncan Weir, Nathan Fowles; Michele Rizzo, Ross Ford, Simon Berghan, Anton Bresler, Ben Toolis, Magnus Bradbury (capt), John Hardie, Cornell du Preez.
Replacements: Neil Cochrane, Darryl Marfo, WP Nel, Fraser McKenzie, Hamish Watson, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Jason Tovey, Junior Rasolea.
Treviso: Jayden Hayward, Angelo Esposito, Alberto Sgarbi, Tommaso Allan, Tommaso Benvenuti, Ian McKinley, Edoardo Gori; Alberto de Marchi, Engjel Makelara, Tiziano Pasquali, Marco Lazzaroni, Federico Ruzza, Francesco Minto, Braam Steyn, Dean Budd.
Replacements: Federico Zani, Cherif Traore, Simone Pietro Ferrari, Marco Fuser, Marco Barbini, Giorgio Bronzini, Luca Sperandio, Marco Zanon.
Referee: David Wilkinson (IRFU)
