With the RBS Six Nations taking a weekend off, the focus across Europe returned to domestic rugby and it was up to Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors to try and lift the mood after Scotland’s winless start to the campaign.

Connacht 13 - 13 Glasgow Warriors

Despite being ahead for most of the match, Glasgow failed to secure a vital away win in their playoff push thanks to a last second penalty from Connacht’s Nial O’Connor from out on the right.

Glasgow had been in control throughout the match thanks to a huge forward effort with Ryan Wilson and Tom Ryder in particular making some big tackles and gaining ground with ball in hand regularly.

It was prop John Welsh, now comfortable in the tight head role, who opened the scoring for the second game in a row with a barraging burst from a ruck 10 metres out to crash over on 26 minutes with Ruaridh Jackson converting to give the visitors an unlikely 0-7 lead.

Connacht only managed a penalty from O’Connor on the stroke of half time for their efforts in an error-strewn half.

Connacht however, came out the stronger in the second half and were helped by the sin-binning of Glasgow winger Tommy Seymour for killing the ball.

The home side exploited the advantage with a neat cross kick to where Seymour would’ve been defending and covering fullback Pete Murchie failed to deal with it, leading to an easy score for winger Tiernan O’Halloran. O’Connor added the difficult conversion.

With the scores tied at 10-10 Glasgow were gifted a penalty for a trip on scrum half Henry Pyrgos which replacement stand-off Duncan Weir easily slotted giving the Warriors a three point lead with minutes remaining.

Just when it looked like they were going to secure their first win in Galway for five years, a penalty at the scrum was awarded to the home side which O’Connor slotted to earn his side two points in a game Glasgow really should’ve won more comfortably but will take some comfort in the fact that the last time they made the playoffs in 2010 they had earned a draw at the same venue.

Newport-Gwent Dragons 21 - 10 Edinburgh

A depleted Edinburgh side travelled to Rodney Parade hoping to bounce back from their home defeat to Ospreys last week but despite taking an early lead through a penalty from Phil Godman, the Scots slumped to their tenth defeat of the season against a Dragons side who despite being clinical, were not all that impressive in victory.

Dragons stand off Jason Tovey levelled the game at 3-3 before Italian referee Alan Falzone sent Edinburgh’s Sean Cox to the sin bin for persistent infringements shortly after home number 8 Gavin Thomas had returned from his own spell on the sidelines.

With the advantage now with the Welsh side, they scored their first try through scrum half Joe Bedford before adding another from Nathan Brew to give the Dragons a comfortable half time lead.

A much-improved Edinburgh performance in the second half was eerily reminiscent of Scotland’s struggles in Cardiff last Sunday - plenty of endeavour and possession but no killer instinct despite some nice work from Godman’s replacement at stand off Gregor Hunter.

Another penalty from Tovey made the game safe for the home side before Edinburgh’s Grant Gilchrist burrowed over with Hunter adding the conversion and Sepp Visser had a clear opportunity to score another after a kick through from his brother Tim.

But the opportunity was not taking meaning another defeat for Edinburgh which will be hugely frustrating for head coach Michael Bradley who will be used to winning domestic matches in Six Nations windows.

Edinburgh now head to Bradley’s former side Connacht next Friday hoping to avoid an eleventh Pro 12 defeat.

Treviso 14-35 Munster

Playoff hopefuls Munster easily negotiated the tricky trip to Northern Italy, easing to a bonus-point win thanks to tries from Simon Zebo, Danny Barnes and Johne Murphy and the boot of Ronan O’Gara.

The Irish visitors were in fine form and were happy to run with the ball from within their own half instead of opting for territory, leading to ample opportunities to cross the line against an out of sorts Treviso who have claimed some big results at home this season.

Fabio Semenzata crossed for the Italian’s only first half try which was converted by Willen De Waal and they added a second through second row Cornelius Van Zyl to make it 24-12 before Zebo scored his second of the match to secure a five point victory for Munster.

Leinster 16 - 13 Scarlets

Pro 12 league-leaders Leinster had to rely on a last-gast penalty from Fergus McFadden to secure victory over an impressive Scarlets side who had  lead for most of the match at the RDS Arena.

After an early Stephen Jones penalty, the visitors scored a try through Dan Newton and although Leinster responded with a penalty from McFadden, the visitors enjoyed much of the possession and took a 3-10 lead at halftime.

Leinster, as expected, bounced back in the second half thanks to a try and conversion from McFadden who now looks to have lost his place in the Ireland squad, and the centre added another penalty to cancel out another by Jones before slotting the match-winning kick on 80 minutes to maintain the Irish side’s position at the top of the Pro 12 table.

Ospreys 23 - 7 Aironi

Ospreys eased to victory over struggling Aironi on Friday night to mark their first game under the leadership of new coach Steve Tandy.

A penalty try along with a second half touchdown from centre Andrew Bishop which was converted by Dan Biggar secured the victory for the Welsh region with Aironi’s try coming from winger Sinoti Sinoti.

Cardiff Blues 21 -14 Ulster

The Blues recorded another win at their former home Cardiff Arms Park on Friday night despite trailing at halftime to a virtually full-strength Ulster side.

The visitors went ahead through a Ruan Pienaar penalty and an opportunist try from Robbie Diack who hacked a loose ball through the Blues defence to touch down.

Former Scotland stand off Dan Parks added two first half penalties but the Blues responded well in the second half and Parks himself scored his first try In over two years before Gavin Henson set up Tom James for another, converted by Parks to secure a vital victory for the home side.

Despite the Six Nations resuming next weekend, Pro 12 rugby continues with Edinburgh away to Connacht on Friday before Glasgow host league leaders Leinster at Firhill on Saturday night ahead of Scotland v France on Sunday.

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