{"id":372117,"date":"2025-12-26T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:34:08","slug":"darcy-graham-on-murrayfield-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372117\/","title":{"rendered":"Darcy Graham on Murrayfield return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edinburgh<\/a> wing Darcy Graham<\/a> is relishing the chance to bring Glasgow<\/a> back to Murrayfield on Saturday after being left underwhelmed by the Hampden experience.<\/p>\n

Warriors moved their home derby game from their compact Scotstoun ground to the national football stadium both last weekend and last year in order to attract a bigger crowd.<\/p>\n

But Graham is not a fan of Hampden and prefers playing at the national rugby stadium, where his side have won the last two stagings of the fixture.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it will give us confidence,\u201d he said of facing their inter-city rivals at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easier coming back here. It\u2019s a better stadium anyway, with more atmosphere than Hampden. So I\u2019m excited to have over 30,000 fans here and hopefully we can get it closer to 40,000 by the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edinburgh are aiming to overturn a 12-point deficit in their quest to claim a first 1872 Cup since the 2021-22 season after going down 24-12 in an attritional affair at Hampden.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a frustrating game,\u201d said Graham. \u201cAs a team we were all hugely frustrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve had a couple of days to sulk, and then get straight back on the horse and hopefully we\u2019ll right some wrongs this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if beating a side of Glasgow\u2019s calibre by more than 12 points felt achievable, Graham said: \u201cYeah, of course. If we can get an early try, it blows the game wide open.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut first of all, it\u2019s about winning the game \u2013 the league points are massive. Then off the back of that, what happens will happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll look at that closer to the time, but really it\u2019s just about trying to win this game. Trying to get five points from the game is the goal, really.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what you\u2019re going to get with Glasgow: they\u2019re a tough team, they\u2019re playing well and they\u2019re a cohesive team. They\u2019ve got world-class players all over the team, so we\u2019ll just have to be on it from minute one to minute 80.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to go out there and fire some shots in attack, and that\u2019s been a big work-on for this weekend, because we know we\u2019ve got the defence part there. It\u2019s just how we can tie it in with the attack and be more clinical in that finish zone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh wing Darcy Graham is relishing the chance to bring Glasgow back to Murrayfield on Saturday after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-372117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}