Quotes by Chris Paterson

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

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

“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.”

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

“We have made massive progress under Frank,”

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

“Weve worked tremendously hard over the summer ... Its credit to our fitness guys, who have made it really tough for us.”

“Weve had a great build up and now Im excited about the new season, the same as everyone else at Edinburgh. Were just desperate to play games and desperate to put into action the fitness training weve gone through.”

“We all knew what we were trying just wasnt 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.”

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