The west nation facet, who’ve dropped out of the Heineken Champions Cup, are presently propping up the English Premiership however Blair believes Neil Hatley’s workforce are higher than their outcomes recommend.
“We believe it will be Bath and it will be a really exciting prospect for us to have a Premiership team up here,” stated Blair. “I don’t think their results reflect the rugby they are playing. They are an excellent attacking team with a strong set piece.”
Edinburgh’s last-16 opponents is not going to be confirmed till Saturday evening however the one method it might probably’t be Bath is that if Toulon fail to achieve a degree from their Pool A match in opposition to Biarritz.
Such a state of affairs would see Edinburgh bumped up from third to second within the Challenge Cup rankings and they’d then play at residence in opposition to the third-placed workforce with the worst document within the pool stage, in all probability Benetton or Perpignan who meet on Saturday.
For Blair, it was a satisfying conclusion to a bunch part during which Edinburgh have gained three of their 4 video games, the one defeat being by a single level to London Irish in Brentford.
The marketing campaign started with a extremely spectacular away win at Saracens and included two residence thrashings of French sides, with Brive taking place 66-3 in January.
Edinburgh have now scored 176 factors of their final three residence video games, in opposition to Brive, Connacht and Pau, however Blair was cautious to not get too carried away.
“We have built a bit of momentum here but Brive didn’t bring a full strength team and Pau had a few guys coming back but they were not full strength. We were missing a few guys too. Connacht was pleasing but Bath will be a proper test for us.”
