'Clever' Edinburgh's time-wasting backfires as Jake's Bulls learn lessons in URC win

Jake White was the first to admit that his youthful Bulls combination made heavy weather of their 33-31 URC victory over Edinburgh at Loftus on Saturday, but still pondered whether the Scots fell prey to their own impetuosity.

The visitors contributed greatly to a contest that eventually spanned almost two hours with various time-wasting tactics, ostensibly allowing them to counter the vaunted Highveld altitude more effectively.

It's true that flyhalf Jaco van der Walt and flanker Jamie Ritchie needed legitimate attention to injuries in the first half though three water breaks in over that 40 minute period appeared excessive.

"I thought Edinburgh managed the time really well: changing boots, coming off all the time, going back on," said White.

"At times I was a bit frustrated, because we would've liked to have sped it up a bit more, and kept the ball in play. Maybe we could've kept them pinned down a little more."

However, the wily Bulls mentor believed it eventually came back to bite them, even if the hosts were saved by Henry Immelman going wide with a long range penalty attempt that would've reversed the result.

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"It’s funny how it works. Sometimes, by them slowing it up, they ran out of time at the end as well. Sometimes you can catch out yourself. If there were another three or four minutes – if they hadn’t slowed the game up in the middle parts of the game, who knows what might've happened?"Where do you get a guy [Edinburgh prop Pierre Schoeman] changing boots one minute after halftime when he’s just been 15 minutes in the change-room to change his boots?"Look, they are a clever side, they are well-coached. We lost to them