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16 hours ago
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Leinster 37-19 Glasgow Warriors: What the pundits said
Former Glasgow Warriors back Colin Gregor on BBC Radio Scotland: "Glasgow couldn't get any foothold in the game."The downpour shifted the dynamics. Catch and pass takes longer with a wet ball and Leinster adapted better."The old failings of Glasgow is when they don't have the ball, they try to force something, but they didn't have the accuracy they needed."Former Scotland captain John Barclay on Premier Sports: "Glasgow couldn't get their attacking shape all day and were absorbing pressure."They didn't have enough physicality and were well beaten."Former Leinster fly-half Ian Madigan on Premier Sports: "It's not the prettiest part of the game, but Leinster's kicking was so good and Glasgow couldn't respond. "There are kickers all over the Leinster team while the Warriors didn't seem to have a plan B."
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2 days ago
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Warriors must 'stay in the fight' against Leinster
Glasgow Warriors must "stay in the fight" and use the pressure of the occasion to overcome Leinster in the URC semi-finals, according to the club's former scrum-half Colin Smith's side travel to Dublin for Saturday's match seeking a first away win over Leinster in six Gregor believes there is a mental fragility to Leinster that could benefit defending champions Glasgow."They seem to have a bit of a wobble at the latter stages," Gregor told BBC Scotland. "Three European Cup finals they lost, they lost at home this season in the semi-final of the European Cup, and at home last season in the URC semi-final."There's question marks around the mental resilience, their decision-making under pressure. Maybe they are missing the experience Johnny Sexton provided for a number of years. They had a bit of a wobble, but got through last week in the quarter-finals against Scarlets."For Glasgow, it's about staying in the fight and making it really difficult for Leinster. Keep the game as close as possible and see if that home crowd get on the backs of the Leinster players who are desperate for a victory. The longer they go without it, the more the pressure builds."Glasgow can take real heart from how they dispatched Stormers last week, but also last season when they went over to Munster in the semi-finals."Smith is a very astute coach. He'll have the team ready to go. He'll know what he's doing with picking Adam Hastings and having six forwards on the bench."
BBC News
26-03-2025
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'Stack of evidence against Everitt is mounting'
After another Edinburgh defeat, the future of head coach Sean Everitt is a hot topic on this week's episode of the BBC Scotland Rugby Burke and Colin Gregor also look back at wins for Scotland in the Women's Six Nations and Glasgow in the we hear from Scotland flanker Rachel McLachlan before the game with France this and subscribe on BBC Sounds
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16-03-2025
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'Scotland played the right way' in 35-16 loss to France
Scotland gave it their best in Paris, but eventually France's physicality became too hard to break down, and their clinical attack started to stretch the meant another fourth-placed finish for Scotland, while France won their first Six Nations since 2022. Here's what our pundits had to say:Former Glasgow Warriors scrum-half Colin Gregor: A three-point deficit at half-time was beyond where I thought Scotland would be. They went toe-to-toe with France in the first it was nerves, whether it was all part of the masterplan, I don't know. France's discipline was poor. Fabien Galthie looked livid. It seemed Scotland had gotten under their as feared, the quality on France's bench, which came on early, they made an impact. There was an increase in intensity, their discipline sharpened right up. They became difficult to break down. Rarely were France prop Peter Wright: I was pretty proud of the way Scotland played. They stuck at it, went out and tried to play the game that could have beaten had a go, moved the ball, played with width. [Blair] Kinghorn had one of his best games. [Duhan] Van der Merwe and [Darcy] Graham looked dangerous.[Finn] Russell will get a lot of criticism for certain things, but I thought he played pretty well and gave Scotland a chance. He varied the game enough to try and hurt the France are a better side. There are world-class players all over the pitch, they can bring real quality off the bench and that just adds to the tempo and Scotland back-row Johnnie Beattie on ITV: That's cruel nature of our sport - if Finn Russell kicks his goals at Twickenham, and this game goes down to the wire for a championship, that changes the at our player participation numbers. France have hundreds of thousands and we have around 20,000 adult is not something Scottish fans will want to hear but when you look at numbers, that is where we record point-scorer Chris Paterson: That was a massive defensive effort from France. They were quite happy to allow us to have possession, they were quite wide in their played with some fantastic endeavour and were quite sharp on the ball, but we couldn't break through, get in behind and really stress played the right way, gave ourselves the best opportunity by keeping the ball alive, playing as quick as possible. It wasn't always accurate but it's the right way to go about Scotland's chief sports writer Tom English: Galthie sprung the bench very early, and that changed the game. The power and control was grew tired. They put an awful lot into the first half, played really well. But when that ferocity is coming at you for another 40 minutes, I don't know how you withstand that. Ireland couldn' put an awful lot into this game, really good in places. France are just better.
