TEN tries. Ten points to lead their pool in the Challenge Cup. Job done, and off Edinburgh can go to spend a few weeks worrying about their league form before they get back into European mode with two home games.

It has been a perfect start to the tournament for head coach Richard Cockerill and his troops. The big blight, though, is the revelation on the eve of the game in Moscow that Scotland flanker John Hardie had been suspended pending an investigation into events the club refused to specify.

For Cockerill, who has set out his stall as a disciplinarian, it must have been a let-down, though he is not in a position to say much about it.

“I am not going to comment on John Hardie but what I do know is that I will run a strong culture and we will deal with those situations as they come along,” he said. “My job is to make this a strong robust environment and we will continue to do that. I have dealt with instances at previous clubs around players getting themselves into situations and I will deal with it as I see fit. I make it very clear that I want an honest and robust environment and people who want to be part of that.”

Of more immediate concern for the coach was the fact Jason Tovey, the only fit fly-half he has available, was taken off on a stretcher midway through the first half and Edinburgh have an important PRO14 match in Treviso coming up.

Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Blair Kinghorn, the first two Edinburgh try scorers, both had shifts in the role, though Cockerill did suggest a more radical solution and only half jokingly. “Maybe we could borrow one of the five Glasgow have. We’ll see,” he said.

Cockerill was otherwise basically happy with the performance on a gloomy Moscow lunchtime, Edinburgh having had to cope with the travel, the unusual kick-off time and the distractions of a city hardly any of them had been to before.

However, Krasny Yar had had to make the longer trek from their Siberian home to Moscow and it seemed to affect them more than the Scots. The Russians beat defending champions Stade Francais last weekend, but Edinburgh wrapped up the scoring bonus point after 31 minutes.

“Job done for us,” was Cockerill’s verdict. “Great win for them last week but our mentality was spot on – travel, early kick-off, all those things, but we started really well and kept the pressure on. We scored some good tries but we have to put that into context with the opposition. However, after their win last week, it was a mental test for us and we coped with it well.”

The bulk of the scoring was done up front, though it was the backs who got Edinburgh under way with Kinghorn exploiting some weak tackling and Hidalgo-Clyne on the end of a clever move that put Damien Hoyland through to chip ahead for his teammate.

The pack then took over. Lewis Carmichael, playing flanker on his first start of the season, romped in for number three and captain Neil Cochrane was on the back of a maul to wrap up the scoring bonus.

That wrapped things up for the half, but changes at the break soon produced dividends when Murray McCallum, a late addition to the bench at prop after Allan Dell pulled out before the game with a groin problem, got driven over for two tries in six minutes.

That was quickly followed by a penalty try for pulling down a maul before Kinghorn interrupted the pack’s try-fest by breaking through on a solo run to score his second. Fraser McKenzie and Stuart McInally, both on as replacements, completed the scoring spree. Krasny, to their credit, never gave up. Wing Evgenii Kolomiitsev was put over mid way through the second half and prop Andrei Kondakov scored with the final move of the game.