Stevie Lawrie: Coaching team has full support of squad STEVIE Lawrie has insisted that the Edinburgh squad is firmly behind Michael Bradley and the coaching staff, even if tempers have spilled over in recent weeks, and believes that a lack of confidence is not at the heart of the club's interminable struggles. Lawrie returned to the club in June 2011, after a spell in English rugby with Doncaster, but was forced to spend much of the past year on the sidelines with a serious injury. He returned to the bench last month and earns his first start since he rejoined Edinburgh in tomorrow's Heineken Cup clash with Munster. The former Stewart's Melville pupil, one of several Scottish talents with more ability than a two-team pro set-up has allowed to shine, is convinced that player errors and poor decision-making at key times are the reasons behind the club's slump, and not a fall in confidence or loss of faith in the coaching. "I think rugby like any sport is a massive confidence game," he said, "but I don't think we've got guys short on confidence. I just think occasionally we're making poor decisions and at this top level games are won by small margins, and they are getting pounced on. This is not just putting pressure on coaches, but everybody aligned with the club. Staff and players are all in it together. We're the guys that take the field so there is a massive onus on the players to make sure we do the coaches justice, the work that we do through the week justice, and that's what we're looking to do. He spoke highly of new forwards coach Neil Back, who replaced Tom Smith in the summer, revealing the hard-edged attitude he was famous for as a player had manifested itself on the training ground and in team meetings in recent weeks. He said all coaches had made their feelings known and players too had stepped up in "pretty tasty" training sessions. But, asked if the squad retained belief in the coaching team, he responded unequivocally: "Yes. You look at the work ethic and the analysis they do, and the things that they're bringing to training is absolutely spot-on. There is 100 per cent buy-in from the players at the minute, because we know that there have been little things in games, individual errors, that have been pounced on. There is no lack of effort or knowledge from players or coaches. With the qualification target now gone, this game has a "dead rubber" ring to it, but Lawrie insisted otherwise. "We're sitting at the bottom of the table with no points and we need to put that right," he added. We're at home and are fortunate that we have good fans that are still buying the tickets and coming to watch, and so this is a massive pride issue. We need to give them something to get their teeth into on Sunday, something to shout about, particularly after the two defeats against Glasgow, and show them what we're about. It's easy to say, but that's what we need to do.