Everitt retains play-off belief after win over Scarlets

Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt thinks his side's 24-19 comeback win over Scarlets has kept them in the hunt for a top-eight finish in the United Rugby Championship.

The victory lifts the capital side up from 13th to 11th and the South African told BBC Scotland: "We earmark our home games to get maximum points and we managed to do that in the Champions Cup as well.

"If results go your way, and we have a game in hand, we are definitely going to be in contention, but the main thing we have to concentrate on is Ulster at home in a couple of weeks."

Everitt was particularly pleased to have centre Mosese Tuipulotu back on the pitch after nine months on the sidelines with a knee injury.

"I am very happy for him," he said. "It wasn't easy. I've seen a player before struggle with that and that player was out for over 12 months.

"We've also got some other guys back and it's about time - we've had a long injury list for a couple of months and it was starting to hurt us.

"I thought Marshall Sykes went well tonight as well as Dylan Richardson, so we are getting some troops back at the right time."

Everitt admitted it was "quite a frantic game" in which his team took time to find their feet after the international break.

"If you look at the first 20 minutes, the ball getting turned over and we conceded a lot of turn overs in the first half," he said.

"I think the boys wanted to show that and play with speed and with that came the errors.

"The guys spoke about it at half time and came back and put together a good 10 minutes just after the break and that laid the foundation for the win.

"It was never going to be perfect tonight with being three weeks off - that's both teams."