For our two professional clubs, it looked at one time that both Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby might end the season on a crescendo.

Now thank to the results against Lions and Munster respectively at the weekend, it seems that they may both finish the United Rugby Championship season on what a music-loving friend termed as a diminuendo or decrescendo – or a bum note, as I might say.

I wrote last week that I thought they would both win, and at one time during both matches I was pretty sure they could do so. When Edinburgh went 16-10 up in the first half, I guessed Munster would fight back not least because they knew a win might send them top of the table, but the home defence had been quite resolute and I felt they might just see out the victory It wasn’t to be.

Edinburgh bravely went for a line-out rather than kick a late penalty, but at least they got a losing bonus point and that might well be crucial when the final points are tallied. Now all they have to do is go to Italy and beat Benetton a week on Saturday.

I say ‘all’. In the race for the final play-off places, it is quite remarkable that the three teams from seventh to ninth........

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