Edinburgh Head Coach Richard Cockerill was “delighted” with his side’s performance as they retained the 1872 Cup with victory over Glasgow Warriors at Scotstoun this evening (Saturday).

A try from skipper Stuart McInally and 11 points from the boot of stand-off Jaco van der Walt sealed back-to-back wins for Cockerill’s side, who were the better team at Scotstoun.

The Edinburgh boss said post-match: “The players deserve the credit, they played really well and deserved to win.

“I think it’s a really big step forward in our development as a team – last week people put it [Edinburgh’s first leg win] down to Glasgow not performing but we’ve come here, played all the rugby and we were the better side.”

Cockerill said the derby match was a “really good test” for his side and praised them for their display.

“We controlled the game pretty much from start to finish the ex-Leicester and Toulon boss added.

“They’re a good side but when we play our game and do it to the. Est of our ability we’re tough to break down and you saw that tonight.”

Rennie admits Glasgow weren’t good enough

While Cockerill was clearly over the moon to have extended Edinburgh’s unbeaten run to four games, Glasgow counterpart Dave Rennie was disappointed with his side’s display.

The Glasgow coach said: “We turned over so much pill early and a couple of elements of ill-discipline gave them field position and we couldn’t turn any possession into points. We weren’t good enough tonight.

“We’re really disappointed with the last couple of weeks but it is not terminal and it doesn’t define us. We’ve got to be better.

“It’s not easy to be on top of your game for 11 months so we’ll assess things but we’ve got to be able to hang onto the pill and build some pressure and we weren’t able to do that.

“Credit to them but we didn’t make them work too hard for their points.”

I’m not going to grizzle about the referees but we weren’t happy with the way it was refereed last week, sent some clips in and confirmed that what they were doing was illegal, walking round and the first scrum tonight they were rewarded so they kept doing it. It was frustrating for us but we’ve got to deal with it.”

Rennie will hope to see a reaction from his side when they take on Benneton Rugby at the weekend, while Edinburgh could extend their winning run to five games as they face Southern Kings.