Glasgow vs Cardiff 7 January 2017

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Glasgow Warriors vs Cardiff Blues
At Scotstoun Stadium, 7.35pm
Live on BBC Alba and S4C

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 18th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Frank Murphy (IRFU), Keith Allan (SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Kirk (SRU)
TMO: Brian MacNeice (IRFU)

Live on BBC ALBA

Head to Head

29 Played 29
16 Wins 13
13 Losses 16
0 Draws 0
63 Tries 55
48 Conversions 38
66 Penalties 63
2 Drop Goals 2
615 Points 546

Glasgow

15. Peter Murchie
14. Tommy Seymour
13. Mark Bennett
12. Alex Dunbar
11. Lee Jones
10. Finn Russell
9. Ali Price

1. Gordon Reid
2. Pat MacArthur
3. D’arcy Rae
4. Tim Swinson
5. Jonny Gray CAPTAIN
6. Josh Strauss
7. Simone Favaro
8. Ryan Wilson

Replacements:
16. James Malcolm
17. Alex Allan
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Rob Harley
20. Adam Ashe
21. Grayson Hart
22. Rory Clegg
23. Sean Lamont

Blooz

Matthew Morgan; Alex Cuthbert, Rey Lee-Lo, Willis Halaholo, Blaine Scully; Steven Shingler, Lloyd Williams; Rhys Gill, Kristian Dacey, Anton Peikrishvili, Macauley Cook, James Down, Ellis Jenkins, Sam Warburton (capt), Josh Navidi

Replacements: Matthew Rees, Brad Thyer, Scott Andrews, Jarrad Hoeata, BJ Edwards, Tomos Williams, Nicky Robinson, Rhun Williams

Discuss

Similar to last week for the Blues. Doing better than expected, but still looks like they are going to lose.

On the plus side the defence has been so much better the last 2 weeks and will stand us in good stead in the future.

Game set and match

Blues defence is good and attack is promising,

But they have spend too much time defending and not enough time attacking.

Murchie is a try scoring machine!

Looked a little forward

Cardiff defence resumes normal service, not a fan of the blues centres leaving big gaps as they did against the Dragons.

Sam Warburton has been totally anonymous - i she just coming back from injury?

If you don t jump in the line out it will end with easy ball well done Glasgow.

Tennessee Tam for motm?

Glasgow compete in line out and screw up blues ball.

Cuthbert would have screwed that try up

Very good result for Glasgow.

Watched the highlights only - Blues could still place top 4 or 6 though.

What is going on with Warbuton? Is this his long road back to full fitness?

Just back from a cracking weekend in Glasgow, the highlight of which was a very strong win over the Blues.

They are not the powder puff pack of old but we still beat them very convincingly up front and took our chances very well and clinically. It was a far from perfect night, the conditions saw to that but we got what we needed. You have to say as well that the atmosphere at Scotstoun just gets better every time I go there. It really is a great place to go and watch a game now.

Glasgow on a bit of a roll now, as are Munster. Its going to be a great game next weekend!