Solomons asks fans to help Edinburgh

Edinburgh head coach Alan Solomons has called on the home crowd to help his players make history in Friday's European Challenge Cup semi-final

against Newport Gwent Dragons.

If Edinburgh win at Murrayfield, they will be the first Scottish team to contest a European rugby final.


Dragons are bidding to reach their first final since 2003.


"To make it a real advantage for us we need a big crowd," Solomons told BBC Scotland.


"We need the type of crowd we had in the 1872 game [against Glasgow] here.

We had 15,000 people and I'm really hoping we'll get that sort of…

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