Duncan Hodge wants Edinburgh to focus on ending Pro 12 season on high

Edinburgh head coach Duncan Hodge wants his team to regroup and end the ongoing season of Pro 12 on a high following their exit in the European Challenge Cup tournament.

The Scotland regional side had a promising start to the tournament where they won five out of the six games in the league stage but succumbed to a 22-32 defeat against La Rochelle in the quarter-final.

With four games left in this season of Pro 12, Hodge will be hoping for them to improve their ninth position in the table.

"We played a lot of good rugby last week, but once again a lack of consistency and high error count marred our ability to dominate the game for long periods. We're continuing to work hard on cutting out such costly mistakes as we search for a full 80-minute showing.

"We want to provide a good performance for our home support, and need the basics of our game to be in order with an attitude and intensity to match. That will give us the platform we need, and help us control the game.

"Connacht will be hungry to bounce back from their defeat to Zebre, but we hold home advantage and want to make that count tomorrow night."

Hodge has made six changes to the side with Glenn Bryce, Rory Scholes, Nathan Fowles, Duncan Weir, Ben Toolis and Fraser McKenzie all returning back.