Forward Thinker It May Be a New Role but Edinburgh Coach Todd Blackadder Is Well Aware of His Responsibilities, Discovers Alasdair Reid

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THERE is an unmistakably eerie atmosphere about any empty stadium, but the mood around Murrayfield was never going to set the tone of Todd Blackadder's conversation when he selected one of its 67,500 vacant seats and sat down to talk on Thursday afternoon.

Even as he looked out at the arena's emerald pitch and ahead to the game that could be the defining contest of his necessarily brief spell as Edinburgh coach, Blackadder's eschewal of glib responses in favour of straightforward and plain-spoken honesty was as obvious as it has been since his move to the capital four years ago.

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Forward Thinker It May Be a New Role but Edinburgh Coach Todd Blackadder Is Well Aware of His Responsibilities, Discovers Alasdair Reid

For while even his strongest admirers might struggle to place Blackadder in the front rank of New Zealand players on the strength of the 12 caps he won - 10 as captain - in an All Blacks side who were hardly the most formidable in that country's rugby history, he comfortably fits the bill...

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