Edinburgh 17-22 Zebre: Three things we learnedpublished at 10:46 GMT 17 February
Andrew Petrie
BBC Sport Scotland

Edinburgh run out of lives
When Zebre's Guido Volpi was sent off for a dangerous high shot on Luke Crosbie, a cynic would have been forgiven for rolling their eyes.
Edinburgh looked like they were going to get away with it again. With 10 minutes to play, they faced 13 men and their knack of scoring late tries this season suggested they would be able to make their numerical advantage count.
However, they were met with a stern Zebre defence that held them up and then drove them down the pitch into their own territory, where the opposition try-line looked as far away as their play-off chances do now.
The luck ran out. There would be no late heroes. Instead, it will be a long two weeks of bitter reflection.
Where has the attack gone?
It wasn't a huge surprise to see Ross Thompson hop down the M8 to his hometown in the summer, but eyebrows were raised when he replaced Ben Healy as Edinburgh's first-choice fly-half.
Although Healy was the top points scorer in the URC last season, Edinburgh's attack looked blunt at times and Thompson was brought in to be the panacea.
It's not worked out like that. In one first-half passage of play, Thompson stood deep, then came flat, then stood deep. When none of that worked, he tried something off the cuff. That didn't work either.
He's not helped by the men outside him, running the same side-to-side lines with very little meaningful crash ball options.
Mosese Tuipulotu has impressed individually, but he and Thompson seem to be on completely different wavelengths.
Fragile Boffelli breaks down again
One of Edinburgh's biggest names made his first start of the season, but Argentina star Emiliano Boffelli came off with a knock in the 43rd minute.
Sadly, he is just not reliable and represents the biggest problem at Edinburgh - the big stars are not proving their weight in gold.
The stagnation and decline of the team since Sean Everitt took over has become alarming. There is little to no obvious progression, with the exception of a few more youngsters getting a shot.
However, the talented trio of Tom Currie, Liam McConnell, and Freddy Douglas need leaders to drag them up to the level required and right now, they have nowhere to turn.