New season, new Glasgow team

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Well then - plenty of Irish and Welsh stuff on these boards so let's have a couple of threads about the Scottish clubs.

Glasgow first.

Sean gone, Toonie in - what do posters think our first XV is going to look like and how well are we going to do this season?

Possible options are as follows - likely first choice followed by other options:

1. Grant (Welsh is out for 6 months following surgery)
2. Hall (MacArthur, Gillies)
3. Cusack (Low, Kalman)
4. Kellock (Harley, Gray)
5. Swinson (Ryder, Campbell)
6. Harley (Macdonald)
7. Fusaro (Barclay)
8. Ma’afu (Wilson)

9. Cusiter (Matawalu, Pyrgos)
10. Weir (Jackson, Wight, Russell)
11. DTH (Shaw)
12. Dunbar (Morrison, Dick)
13. Shlamont (Nathan, McGuigan)
14. Ramont (Seymour, Paris)
15. Hogg (Murchie, Thomson)

Not bad cover levels all round.

Here's hoping that our new Tongan, Kiwi, Fijian, Canadian and Aussie brethren can do us proud.

And that Toonie keeps his yapper shut about his own personal philosophy that scoring tries is meaningless frippery.

Don't get me started about age - you lot in your 30s are fine because you've had to throw away any concept of youth long ago! I'm 25 and have to deal with the fact that there are players in my team who have played senior rugby for a couple of years now and weren't even in high school yet when I was in 6th year! That's old!

Suspect I'm not gonna get much sympathy now though....

RDW_Scotland wrote:Don't get me started about age - you lot in your 30s are fine because you've had to throw away any concept of youth long ago! I'm 25 and have to deal with the fact that there are players in my team who have played senior rugby for a couple of years now and weren't even in high school yet when I was in 6th year! That's old!

Suspect I'm not gonna get much sympathy now though....

Boo hoo - that must be so tough for you!!

For the record, I have not yet thrown away the concept of youth. Just looking at Simon Shaw, there is hope yet that I can still make it as an international rugby player. Obviously I'd need to be about 6 inches taller, about 3 stone heavier and actually good at rugby, but such minor details have not held but my delusions thus far.....

RDW_Scotland wrote:Don't get me started about age - you lot in your 30s are fine because you've had to throw away any concept of youth long ago! I'm 25 and have to deal with the fact that there are players in my team who have played senior rugby for a couple of years now and weren't even in high school yet when I was in 6th year! That's old!

Suspect I'm not gonna get much sympathy now though....

Can open. Worms everywhere.

GLASGOW WARRIORS TEAM TO PLAY SALE SHARKS IN THE MARK CUETO TESTIMONIAL AT HEYWOOD ROAD ON SATURDAY 18 AUGUST (KICK-OFF 3PM)

15 Peter Murchie

14 Tommy Seymour
13 Byron McGuigan
12 Alex Dunbar
11 Taylor Paris

10 Ruaridh Jackson
9 Henry Pyrgos

1 Gordon Reid
2 Pat MacArthur
3 Mike Cusack
4 Tim Swinson
5 Nick Campbell
6 Angus Macdonald
7 Chris Fusaro (CAPTAIN)
8 Ryan Wilson

SUBSTITUTES

16 Finlay Gillies
17 Moray Low
18 Ed Kalman
19 James Eddie
20 Adam Ashe
21 Troy Nathan
22 Scott Wight
23 Peter Horne
24 Sean Kennedy
25 Fraser Thomson

Not considered for selection due to injury: Rory Lamont (leg), Jon Welsh (shoulder)

Strong looking pack for tomorrow - very pleased to see Campbell and Reid starting and good to see young Fusaro given the armband.

Dunbar at 12 is what I think most Scots fans want to see this season, and another chance to see what the jet-heeled young Taylor Paris can produce.

Look forward to seeing the outcome.

Sale Sharks:

15.Rob Miller, 14.Charlie Amesbury, 13.Will Addison, 12.Johnny Leota, 11.Tom Brady, 10.Nick Macleod, 9.Cillian Willis, 1.Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 2.Joe Ward, 3.Tony Buckley, 4.Fraser McKenzie, 5.James Gaskell, 6.Mark Easter, 7.David Seymour (capt.), 8.Richie Vernon.

Reps. Marc Jones, Vadim Cobilas, Aston Croall, Ross Harrison, Richie Gray, Tom Holmes, James Doyle, Dwayne Peel, Danny Cipriani, Jordan Davies, Corne Uys, Charlie Ingall.


Welcome back Vernon and Gray, and looking forward to hearing how Fraser McKenzie gets on.

Hopefully Cipriani will get on as well. Any game with Cipriani and Jackson as the two 10's should be an entertaining one, with the odd line break through the 10 channel!

Is the player that is having the testimonial not generally meant to play in the game too??

Injured apparently accordingly to the Sale website!

If you type 'rory lamont injured' into Google, you get 268,000 hits.

Nearly as many as Rory has received.

It's such a shame as well, when Rory Lamont is on his game he's such a dangerous attacking fullback. Strong runner, able to stay on his feet when needed and a good bit quicker than his brother. Exactly the sort of big athletic strike runner that we need available, now that we are actually trying to pass the ball.