URC Final | Glasgow Warriors URC Champions 23/24

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Bulls vs Glasgow Warriors

Loftus Stadium, Pretoria SA
Saturday 22nd June

Glasgow Warriors win the URC final 2024!

I got a feeling that argy wing will have a say at some point this second half......

well that try 3 - glasgow have been all over them this half

We are warriors. We are warriors

What? I’m allowed when Edinburgh aren’t there

That’s it Glasgow, dream!

Glasgow lead 21-16

dempsey with a 4th.....if they give this it could be over.....

no try - early tackle - bulls stay alive

Farcical. The ball was passed him when he got hit. What do the refs want? You can’t see someone when you are tackling low. Players will need to stay high to be able to see if the target has gathered the ball or not

Got to say it was the right call.....he defo got tackled early and you cant do that even the player does not get the ball - it was marginal but that was the right call...

Someone get on Amazon and order Dempsey a new pair of lungs. The man is spent. No idea how much ground he’s covered

Glasgow defence is winning them this game - they really have been great at the breakdowns this second half

tigertattie wrote:Someone get on Amazon and order Dempsey a new pair of lungs. The man is spent. No idea how much ground he’s covered

Yeah he really has played like its his last game......got to be a contender for man of the match

penalty - if they kick this it could be it.....

Ouch. Goosen goosed that right up. That could be the game with the weege getting the scrum back on the bulls 22

Think Jake was a little late with his prop subs in this match

5 mins to go and jimbo may get to stop calling the weege the once and future champions

Is going off your feet at the ruck not an offence these days?

Ffs. When you tackle, bend at the waist

That card and penalty will give Bulls one last chance to win this game - they need a try.

They need to push this into the 22

He got it to the 22 line.....still a bit out but they have to score now or its over....

Another penalty Bulls - they need to go to the 5 m - he finds it

Well I’m not going to mention that penalty call.

Hmmm if they score wide out to the left and miss the conversion will it go to extra time?

They have to be careful or they will get another one in the bin

Well done Glasgow! Bulls what can I say, choke?

Well done the weege. Really had the ref against them in that last 10 mins

Thats it - Glasgow are the Champions!!

Deserved the way they played in the second half......

That was close though - Bulls looked like they were heading to the line with that maul

Well done Glasgow.

tigertattie wrote:Well done the weege. Really had the ref against them in that last 10 mins

Cant really fault the ref - from a neutral perspective I actually thought he had a good game

Fagerson was good today but Dempsey got robbed for the man of the match award

Well that raised my blood pressure more than watching Scotland play!

So pleased for the boys, they've clearly worked hard the last two seasons. Thoroughly deserved. Also Franco take a bow!

This is where it starts. Do it here, then Scotland will start doing it at international level.

Congratulations Glasgow, that is a well deserved title. Best team for most of the game, Bulls looked flat and their errors cost them big time.

So so proud. The spirit and determination was 1st class and the defence was immense. From our first try onwards I thought we'd do it. Going to sit quietly, let it sink in, then go out and celebrate. Well done guys, coaches too.

Agree with the above. Congratulations for a dramatic win. Two good teams going at it was never going to be overly artful. But was a real good game of Rugby, a worthy final, and a fitting champion.

Great performance by Glasgow. Well played every single one of you. Chapeau.

Outstanding Glasgow. Simply outstanding.

Superb Glasgow. Great performance. Those lads will need a week or two to recover after that.

Excellent win Glasgow. I didn't think you had a chance, but you showed how to play against the Bulls and are worthy winners. I think Leinster need to be taking some tips from you for next season.

Just been catching up with the BBC text updates from LAX airport and just that was enough to get my heart racing. Incredible achievement, congratulations weegies hopefully this can be the start of a long period of success for you guys. Awesome stuff

We’re never gonna hear the end of this from Jimbo though

We'll I made it down to Yorkshire today. After all the hills of the borders, Northumbria and County Durham, which nearly killed me, the road finally flattened out today and I had a much nicer ride through pan flat East Yorkshire

So having had a good day, it just got so much better when I saw this incredible result. Did any of us really Beleive this was possible?

We'll the Warriors players and coaching staff certainly did, there is certainly some steel in that team now.

I am off to Spalding tomorrow, a spin through the Fens, which is also pleasingly flat. 4 days till I get to Dover now. I am looking forward to getting home.

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Great reault for the URC.
Year 1, 2 SA sides playing a final in SA, really got the SA fans intrested in the URC.
Year 2 Munster prove that teams can win away.
Year 3, when it starts looking like a SA/Ire crave up, Glasgow remind everyone there are seriously goos teams outside SA and Ireland.

3 finals, 3 different winners, all feom different Unions. Thats the type of result that will help the URC grow.

That's got to be up there with one of the greatest achievements in Scottish rugby history when you consider how competitive the league is these days!

Bloody well done Glasgow!

That will be remembered as one of the great achievements in the URC. The league won't get any easier but you Weegies took the hard path to that victory.
Well done to my Scottish cousins, you should be pregnant with pride. Class act folks.

Congrats to Glesgae and their fans. A shot in the arm for Scottish rugby there.

Just finished the game - very similar to last week and Glasgow managed the energy and determination to back it up. Remarkable win.

Ultimately Glasgow's big name players stepped up and the Bulls' didn't. It's also crazy to think the effort involved a bunch of youngsters who we'd never heard of at the start of the season and someone like Henco Venter, who looked like a complete journeyman signing but he's had a stormer of a season and made a huge impact off the bench.

Hopefully Toonie has been paying attention as he has pretty much the opposite approach to how to play these big games, and it's been a failure time and time again. Glasgow showing how it's done!

BigGee wrote:We'll I made it down to Yorkshire today. After all the hills of the borders, Northumbria and County Durham, which nearly killed me, the road finally flattened out today and I had a much nicer ride through pan flat East Yorkshire

So having had a good day, it just got so much better when I saw this incredible result. Did any of us really Beleive this was possible?

We'll the Warriors players and coaching staff certainly did, there is certainly some steel in that team now.

I am off to Spalding tomorrow, a spin through the Fens, which is also pleasingly flat. 4 days till I get to Dover now. I am looking forward to getting home.

https://justgiving.com/page/grahame-dick-1715528190885

For anyone interested in supporting my chsrity

Thanks

BG

Didn't realise you are doing this. Perhaps I spent too much time in the sections dedicated to the decadent English and missed it. I think this is great and inspirational. Four days from Yorkshire to Kent ain't easy. Hope you reach your goal. Not sure if this helps, mate, but I hear they have beer in Dover....

T'was a good game yesterday. Also capped off my local URC Superbru league which I won this year.

Bulls looked tired against Benetton and again yesterday against Glasgow. It’s usually the away teams tiring when they go down to South Africa. It’s a long season and perhaps Jake White should have rotated a bit more in the league. Bulls have a big squad and it’s quality throughout. Jake White must have an ego, he buys quality players from everywhere but doesn’t use them. Franco Smith on the other hand seems like a really smart coach, it’s a pity Welsh teams don’t have the nous to look up and say “we need someone like that.”

I was busy yesterday so got up this morning to watch the match. I'm flabergasted. That was an unbelievable result for Glasgow and a huge boost for Scottish rugby in general.

Matt Fagerson for me was the player who has been a standout for the Warriors against Munster and the Bulls. He was everywhere in defence and made some monster carries. Hugely underrated player.

But it was a huge team performance away from home again. In AFL they call the third quarter the championship quarter, and that was what Glasgow won last night. They looked far and away the better side in that second half and it was a shame Dempsey's try was (correctly) scrubbed out because it epitomised the effort of the Warriors this season.

Hard luck to the Bulls, they were gracious in defeat and had a very good season themselves.

Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable. I'm so happy for the player, coaches and fans.

..and I am also very jealous as an Edinburgh fan! Massive congrats.