Chris Paterson Quotations

I have been here since he started and if you look at the squad now compared to the one he inherited it's markedly different and I think he would say himself that it has taken until now for him to get the squad he wanted.

Frank is a massively intelligent man. It's difficult to sum up but he can watch a game in which we are beaten by 60 points and tell us to one or two things differently and make us win a game. He is so good at pinpointing what the most important things are.

Our target is to improve in every game we play and to get the country behind us.

Picking up nine points over Christmas sets us up for a crack at this title.

Such a tactic can really prove off-putting but at least we have experience of Ireland's stand-off's through dealings with Edinburgh which means the Celtic League hopefully coming into its own again in terms of preparations for success in the Six Nations.

My captaincy was made more difficult by starting at stand-off and moving to full-back,

We are delighted to win because it's the first time we've beaten the Ospreys, but it was a strange day. We were really motivated and we are usually positive and assertive but it wasn't the case early on and we got ourselves into a bit of trouble. But I think huge credit comes out of the way we fought back.

We've worked tremendously hard over the summer ... It's credit to our fitness guys, who have made it really tough for us.

We said at half-time that we had played poorly but we were 10-10 against the reigning champions. So we knew that we could go on and win the game and we did that in the 20 minutes after half-time.

We've had a great build up and now I'm excited about the new season, the same as everyone else at Edinburgh. We're just desperate to play games and desperate to put into action the fitness training we've gone through.

We all knew what we were trying just wasn't coming off in the first half, so there was a determination simply to keep going until it did click and that proved the right thing in the second half.

You only need to look around at the smiles on the guys' faces,