Michael Bradley tells Edinburgh to stay ahead of the gameplan THE key to Edinburgh causing an upset and finishing their Heineken Cup campaign in Watford tomorrow with some semblance of pride lies in sticking to the game-plan. That is the belief of head coach Michael Bradley, dearly seeking an upturn in his side's fortunes after a string of defeats. Edinburgh have been at their best in past seasons when they have appeared to throw caution to the wind and, last week, when they opened up against Munster they scored two tries. It was too late to affect the outcome there, and one might think that Bradley would ask his side to carry on from where they left off at Murrayfield. But it is not as simple as that, he explained, in naming a team with just one change - Netani Talei is in for David Denton at No 8 - for tomorrow's final Pool 1 clash with Kelly Brown's Saracens. "After the match last weekend I was talking to the Munster lads and they said to me that we hadn't given them any opportunities early in the game to pick us off and that was the intention," explained Bradley. It was 12-3 at half-time and the critical moment in the second half came when we were attacking and we coughed the ball up and they counter-attacked down to our half, we made a mistake and Greig [Laidlaw] got binned, and they got tries in that period. That came from a turnover and it was probably the only time we did that in the game, but that's how dangerous Munster are and Saracens are similar. If you have opportunities obviously you go for them, and that's the same against everybody, but you have to play the game in the right areas and not make it easy for the opposition to go 3, 6, 9 points ahead. That was the Munster game-plan and it will be the Sarries game-plan as well. Once they get over seven points then they'll look to cut loose. The dramatic change in the match last week came when Munster got over that bracket of seven points and it's something that we were conscious of and so the challenge for us against Sarries is to get ahead and stay ahead, which keeps them under pressure all the time. There is a lot of truth in that. Edinburgh might not have looked like a dangerous attacking side early on last week, with Tim Visser little more than spectator, but Munster had few opportunities. The question is whether it is realistic to expect Edinburgh to be able to contain a side with the depth of talent of Saracens, particularly after the 45-0 shellacking the Englishmen dished out at Murrayfield in a sobering start to the Heineken Cup in October. Currently second in the Aviva Premiership, Saracens need a win to secure their place in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals after losing narrowly away to Munster. Bradley is confident that if the players cut out mistakes and learn from that first game and finish off chances this time, they will cause Saracens a major headache at Vicarage Road. He said: "In that match it was 19-0 at half-time, but when you look at the chances we created it should have been minimum 19-7 but really 19-10 and, in the second half when they went down to 14 men, we should have scored again and the game would have had a completely different complexion to that match and, potentially, the view of our efforts in the competition this year. If we can avoid giving Sarries soft tries this weekend and take our opportunities and get ahead of them, then they will feel the pressure. They have a way of playing the game, like Munster. If they get ahead and well ahead then it will be difficult to get them back, but if they go behind and stay behind they agitated, frustrated and get very one- dimensional. That's our challenge this weekend.