On a weekend where the weather decided to make a major impact on proceedings, both Edinburgh and Glasgow failed to take advantage of either the conditions or the severely weakened teams they were playing. As predicted, neither the Ospreys nor the Dragons had any Welsh Squad members playing in their respective teams, but still our teams failed to overpower either of them.

The right tactics win matches and I'm afraid in pouring rain the Scottish teams were found wanting. Welsh players seem to be taught to punt rugby balls for miles from an early age and both their fullbacks, Barry Davies, for the Ospreys and Jason Tovey, for the Dragons repeatedly pegged their Scottish opponents back forty or fifty meters.

The Dragons, in their match against Edinburgh on Sunday, had the perfect script - win the set piece, use the blind side from scrums if possible, kick deep and ask Edinburgh to run the ball back. Both Steve Jones and Phil Godman are pretty average kickers, and they usually obliged by running the ball back often resulting in a dropped ball after a couple of passes and a fair amount of territory lost.

I'm afraid that Phil Godman's development as a No.10 general will continue to be compromised unless root and branch analysis is done on his kicking technique and appropriate action is taken to improve it. I suggest a few sessions under the tutelage of John Rutherford or Colin Telfer might be useful!

To give them their dues, Edinburgh did score a cracking try from a turnover when forwards and backs combined to put Andrew Turnbull over near the corner. The young flanker Roddy Grant was involved in the movement and he continues to impress me. His running style, his ball carrying, often in his left hand and his ubiquity around the field remind me of a young Richie McCaw - not a bad role model to copy.

Once again, Glasgow failed to deliver. But that’s tempered when you consider that the Ospreys reportedly had 22 players unavailable. On the night, I'm sure that Sean Lineen's men would have wanted a dry pitch to allow their experience and quality, especially out wide, to come through but the atrocious conditions put paid to that. Dan Park's kicking, both out of hand and through the posts, kept them in the game and a draw was probably a fair result. Again, I was intrigued by the replacement of Chris Cusiter on the hour mark. Up to that point, he was one of the few players who could have sparked a try for Glasgow and then he was removed for no apparent reason. Maybe there was the deal with Andy Robinson, the Scotland coach; that he was only to play for part of the game. As it was, Glasgow seemed to settle for a draw with all 22 players given a run.

Even with the unfavourable results, both pro teams can very pleased with their Magners League form so far. Sitting second and third at nearly the half way point, many of the younger players can take a well earned rest and recharge their batteries for the rest of the campaign whilst the top players can look forward to very testing Tests against Fiji, Australia and Argentina. I wish them well.