IT was a huge "welcome back" for Edinburgh's attacking style as they defeated the Dragons of Wales far more comfortably than the scoreline suggests.

After several weeks when nerves, low confidence and the more robust style demanded by Alan Solomons, the head coach, had stifled anything resembling fluent rugby, the capital side finally got the mix right and reaped the reward.

Solomons suggested that his had created seven clear scoring chances, and was not particularly perturbed that they had taken only two. Of the chances they missed, the coach felt misfortune had accounted for four and only one, a break down the left wing in which the final offload missed its man and sailed into touch, was a genuine miss.

For Tim Visser, who got on the scoresheet for the second time this season, it was just great to be getting chances to score again. "It was one of the first games where we have showed any attacking flair. We managed to get the ball around a bit, which was good to play in," he said.

"It depends on the opposition and also where you are, in terms of home or away. Last week, against Ulster, we were facing a much more organised team in defence and there were not the opportunities to spin it wide. In this game, there were some real opportunities and it was good to see that we have still got it when the chances are there."

Where the result puts Edinbrugh in terms of their next game - their European Challenge Cup match against Bordeaux-Begles in France - is harder to say. The Dragons were poor, came with a limited gameplan which involved a lot of kicking and caused them to surrender the territorial battle to Edinburgh as a result. Bordeaux may not be the trendiest team in the French Top 14 but they are in third place at the moment. They have also scored more points than any other side in their league after putting more than 50 on both Clermont-Auvergne and Castres in their last two games.

"Bordeaux are going well and I have heard they are very well supported team, they have one of the biggest average crowds per season," said Visser. "It will be exciting to go there. It will be another massive test but I am expecting them to play a bit of rugby which could make it an exciting game for us."

Still, for Edinburgh, having conceded 112 points in their previous two games and not having won at home this season, the result at the weekend was the main thing. Both Solomons and Visser agreed afterwards that it should provide the confidence boost the team needed.

"It is a bit like having a wheel stuck; you keep pushing and then suddenly it frees itself," said Solomons. "What pleases me greatly is that we created seven opportunities and the three of them were definitely ones that should have been taken. Visser's try, Hamish [Watson's] try and the try at the end - those are three tries. We are creating the opportunities, that is the key thing. Well done to the players for what they did, they deserve a lot of credit and they deserve support."

As Visser pointed out, Edinburgh could, and probably should, have been out of sight by half-time. The Scotland internationalist had failed to ground the ball when it bobbled up as he chased a kick; Waston, the flanker, had got over the line but did not seem to realise a Dragons player got his hand under the ball and Edinburgh were in a scoring position when Cornell Du Preez broke his leg and lost hold of the ball.

Instead, they had to settle for two Tom Heathcote penalties and were behind early in the second half when Matthew Pewtner, the Dragons wing, wriggled over from his side's only sustained attack of the game.

The reply was instant. A penalty was scored to put Edinburgh back in front and then Visser registered a second score with a charge-down clearance and this time he made no mistake holding on to the ball. A well-worked period of pressure ended with Dougie Fife, returning from injury to take his place in the team, going over and with Heathcote converting both the Scottish side were well clear.

They did manufacture another chance with Heathcote breaking and Phil Burleigh, the replacement centre, taking it on but his offload was judged to have gone forward and rebounded off one of his own players before Mike Coman, the flanker and captain, took the ball over the line.

"If we had taken some of the first-half opportunities we could have put them away,"said Visser. "We were dominating. We were looking at possibly 20-nil at the break and that would have been a completely different ball game. We knew that if we could keep it up then they would break at some point. That is what you saw in the second half."