Glasgow Warriors v Zebre Rugby, 29 April

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Glasgow Warriors v Zebre Rugby
Friday 29 April 2016
KO: 19:35
Scotstoun Stadium

Live on Hugh Dan's Channel

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 11th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Graeme Wells, Bob Nevins (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: Paul Minto (SRU)
TMO: Neil Paterson (SRU)

A. Head to Head

Lots Played Lots
Loads Wins None
None Losses Loads
Nope Draws Nope
Sh!teloads Points Hardly Any

B. Form

Fri 8 April 2016
Zebre 14 - 43 Glasgow Warriors

Fri 6 March 2015
Glasgow Warriors 26 - 5 Zebre

Sun 15 February 2015
Zebre 10 - 54 Glasgow Warriors

C. Teams

Glasgow Warriors 

Glenn Bryce, Taqele Naiyaravoro, Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Sean Lamont, Duncan Weir, Grayson Hart, Jerry Yanuyanutawa, Pat MacArthur, D'arcy Rae, Greg Peterson, Leone Nakarawa, Rob Harley (capt), Favaro, Ashe.

Replacements: Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid, Zander Fagerson, Tim Swinson, Ryan Wilson, Ali Price, Finn Russell, Tommy Seymour.

Zebre Rugby

15 Ulrich Beyers, 14 Giulio Toniolatti, 13 Tommaso Boni, 12 Gonzalo Garcia, 11 Kayle Van Zyl, 10 Carlo Canna, 9 Luke Burgess, 8 Federico Ruzza, 7 Filippo Cristiano, 6 Emiliano Caffini, 5 Marco Bortolami, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys (c), 3 Dario Chistolini, 2 Oliviero Fabiani, 1 Andrea De Marchi

Replacements: 16 Bruno Postiglioni, 17 Emiliano Coria, 18 Pietro Ceccarelli, 19 Gideon Koegelenberg, 20 Andries Van Schalkwyk, 21 Guglielmo Palazzani, 22 Giulio Bisegni, 23 Kelly Haimona

Well, a total demolition but much of that can be ascribed to Zebre being utterly woeful.

I thought Jerry Y was fantastic, and continued his very solid form of late. Bryce (the younger) is a player who I feel Glasgow could have maybe held onto, although his move is probably driven by an ambition to become first choice somewhere, something he is never going to be at Glasgow - he is a very classy player.

Great to see such camaraderie within the Glasgow squad, the highlight of which was Bennett passing the ball to Weir at the end. Glasgow are in a very good place at the moment, next weekend should be a cracker.

Final note on big Naka, he is just an unbelievable talent and natural athlete. Not just his outrageous offloads, but the amount of work he gets through is phenomenal - always willing to carry ball and his line out work is very underrated. A truly world class player (in the non-welsh sense).