Glasgow Warriors vs Bath

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Warriors team for the math on Sunday:

15 Stuart Hogg

14 Tommy Seymour
13 Rob Dewey
12 Graeme Morrison
11 Colin Shaw

10 Duncan Weir
9 Chris Cusiter

1 Ryan Grant
2 Pat MacArthur
3 Michael Cusack
4 Richie Gray
5 Alastair Kellock (Captain)
6 Robert Harley
7 John Barclay
8 Ryan Wilson

Substitutes

16 Dougie Hall
17 Gordon Reid
18 Ed Kalman
19 Tom Ryder
20 Chris Fusaro
21 Henry Pyrgos
22 Troy Nathan
23 Federico Aramburu

Cusack back in the front row, no place for Beattie, and a resumption of the bosh-bash center-pairing of Morrison and Dewey

Game of two tight defences, Dodger, maybe one for the afficionados!!

Dont even think its a good one for the purists to be honest, and at 9-9 the team that creates something could be the winner.

Just a little creativity would go a long way, alright

Hooper seemed to get away with holding on there, maybe a bit lucky

12-9 Bath

Hogg ghosts thru the Bath line for the try

See what I did?

Hope Glasgow win this, loving the performance of the Rabo teams so far, only Connacht have lost.

Weir for the extras 16-12

Try time Glasgow. Hogg goes in after good work from from Nathan and Morrison. 16-12 Glasgow.

Aironi as well of course, forgot about the Italians.

This is awesome. Much quicker relay than the 'live' update.
Good work fellas.

Heathcote immediately strikes back 16-15

Love how the youngsters of Glasgow are performing - Grant, Harley, Wilson, Weir, Hogg - real prospects there

Heathcote slots a wide, long-range effort - 18-16 Bath lead

Donald Duck on for Heathcote

Why did Donald sign for Bath? Isn't he meant to be good?

Come on glasgow!!!

Not the best kick from the world cup winner?

Donald comes on and kicks the ball over Glasgow deadball line.

<laugh>

We need Donald to get back to his old form.

By which I mean choke a bit, make a couple of defensive whoopsies and shank a few kicks.

Weir strokes over from near straight in front: 19-18

Poor between Louw and MacMillan - blew a chance there

Artful_Dodger wrote:Donald comes on and kicks the ball over Glasgow deadball line.

<laugh>

Oh dear. Donald with a chance to win it. Mon Glasgow!!

Right call from Berdos, altho arguably Kalman's hand is knocked away in the process of binding? Donald takes it 21-19

Come on glasgooooooooooow!!!

Gray try at the death after fluffed DG

HOLY S,HIT!!!!

Bath offside should have been a pen so fair enough that grey got the try.

Oh happy days, oh happy days!!

What a pity grey is off to sale. Seems so wrong.

Get in there!

Great win Glasgow - shame it took until the last minute for some excitement!

WOW what a try what a way to finish well done Glasgow beating Hersh fat lady.

Bath

leinsterbaby wrote:What a pity grey is off to sale. Seems so wrong.

He wanted to go LB, so fair enough - Ryder and a couple of youngsters will come thru

Is it all over?

Hehe, English sides definitely not getting the rub of the green this weekend.

Who in all honestly would have had the Warriors at the top of the table after weekend 1? Unbelievable

The amount of twists and turns in this competition make me think anything could happen at Toulouse later.

I think getting sent home in the group stages of the RWC could be one of the best this GA to happen to Scottish rugby. The youngsters are being given a chance and seem to be shining.

Tell you what i take back what i said in an article a few weeks ago regarding Scottish rugby hanging over a dark abyss, i was wrong some of these young Scottish lads look good.

my prediction was that Glasgow would nick it...couldn't have been more accurate..

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Ayes - there are some good youngsters coming thru - Hopeful days maybe

Delighted Glasgow won but had a winning margin of less than 5 bet for Bath so a little gutted in that regard as it literally was a 50-50 decision to go for Glasgow or Bath!

Well credit when due, if you take into account how little pro game time the young Scottish lads have had,they will only improve.

Can't remember both Scots teams winning in the opening round of the Heino before, though I'm sure if I'm wrong I'll be corrected. Definite progress, also shows that the Robocop does produce decent teams if you look at the weekends results overall.

Cracking result, and some extremely strong defensive performances from Glasgow. Thought Troy Nathan made a difference going forward, Dewey had tackled well but wasn't making much use of the ball.

Big thumbs up to Cusack and, in particular, Ryan Grant, both of whom were I thought outstanding in giving the Bath pack a hard time (it got easier for them when Kalman came on), and Richie Gray was immense at both the lineout and in the loose (goodness knows how many tackles he made).

My one moment of frustration with Glasgow was Weir taking that long range pot shot in the first half rather than giving Glasgow some much needed territory and possession, but in general I thought he and Cusiter played well in managing the game with limited ball.

Glasgow scored all the tries, made 100% of just about everything that came their way and deserved that finale.

Final mention to go to Stuart Hogg. Seems a really clever player and extremely composed at the back for one so young. Put in a couple of great tackles as well and looks to play heads-up rugby when counter-attacking.

Very postive weekend for Scottish rugby

FES - Hogg was good but needs to improve his kicking, which was pretty mince.

Yes, one in particular was horrible following a bizarre effort from Seymour to catch the ball (as a former fullback I expected better from him).

Hogg is still raw, but ball in hand he's a real prospect. Always looking to challenge Bath and always looking around with his head up. Not something we've had much of with Scottish fullbacks in recent times.

Weir, a deserved MOTM, also had some raw moments. That silly fly hack in the opening moments in particular showed naivity. He should have grabbed that ball and set it up properly. That could have cost us.

But these are young players and they will make mistakes. What really matters to me is that not only do these young lads have potential, but they are being selected on merit and delivering on the big stage against good sides.

What's also postive is that Glasgow were missing some good and important players. Add Low, Thompson, Beattie, Jackson and DTH to that match day squad and you've actually got some depth.

I would also add that kicking can be easily coached so I'm not too worried about the odd shank. Jason Robinson came into Union without any form of kicking game, and became quite good quite quickly.