Champions Cup Pool 3: Glasgow Warriors v Scarlets, 12 December

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Glasgow Warriors v Scarlets
Saturday 12 November 2015
KO: 13:00
Scotstoun Quagmire, Glasgow

Live on Sky Sports / beIN Sports

Referee Mathieu Raynal (France)
Touch Judge 1 Sebastien Minery (France)
Touch Judge 2 Thomas Dejean (France)
Fourth Official Don MacPherson (Scotland)
TMO Vincent Azoulay (France)

A. European Head to Head

4 Played 4
0 Wins 4
4 Losses 0
0 Draws 0
71 Points 146

B. Recent Form

Sat 5 September 2015
Glasgow Warriors 10 - 16 Scarlets

Fri 9 January 2015
Glasgow Warriors 22 - 7 Scarlets

Fri 21 November 2014
Scarlets 19 - 9 Glasgow Warriors

C. Teams

Glasgow Warriors

15. Stuart Hogg
14. Taqele Naiyaravoro
13. Alex Dunbar
12. Peter Horne
11. Tommy Seymour
10. Duncan Weir
9. Mike Blair

1. Ryan Grant
2. James Malcolm
3. Sila Puafisi
4. Leone Nakarawa
5. Jonny Gray (Captain)
6. Josh Strauss
7. Simone Favaro
8. Adam Ashe

16. Shalva Mamukashvili
17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Tim Swinson
20. Rob Harley
21. Grayson Hart
22. Finn Russell
23. Sean Lamont

Scarlets

15 Steff Evans
14 Harry Robinson*
13 Regan King*
12 Gareth Owen
11 Michael Tagicakibau*
10 Steve Shingler
9 Gareth Davies*

1 Phil John
2 Emyr Phillips* [c]
3 Rhodri Jones*
4 George Earle
5 Tom Price
6 Lewis Rawlins
7 Tom Phillips
8 Morgan Allen

16 Kirby Myhill
17 Dylan Evans
18 Samson Lee
19 Maselino Paulino
20 Jack Condy
21 Rhodri Williams*
22 Aled Thomas
23 Michael Collins

nathan wrote:Tackling optional, mind you he's huge!

Nobody wanted to tackle him lol

Scarlets looking clueless and resort to kicking again

Welly wrote:SRFU will be even more angry that Aus just managed to cap him before he left.

Wingers? We don't need wingers. We've got Lamont and Visser.

Duncan Weir: Kicks - 9 Fluffed - At least 6

Ineffable wrote:

Welly wrote:SRFU will be even more angry that Aus just managed to cap him before he left.

Wingers? We don't need wingers. We've got Lamont and Visser.

None of them could do something like that mind.

Changed my mind about the ref. He's not anti-Glasgow, just anti-rugby, and unfortunately Glasgow are the ones trying to play rugby.

Welly wrote:

Ineffable wrote:

Welly wrote:SRFU will be even more angry that Aus just managed to cap him before he left.

Wingers? We don't need wingers. We've got Lamont and Visser.

None of them could do something like that mind.

Hopefully you know that was in jest

Not impressed with the crowd...

Ineffable wrote:

Welly wrote:

Ineffable wrote:

Welly wrote:SRFU will be even more angry that Aus just managed to cap him before he left.

Wingers? We don't need wingers. We've got Lamont and Visser.

None of them could do something like that mind.

Hopefully you know that was in jest

Was hoping but you never know.

Not impressed with both teams

nathan wrote:Not impressed with both teams

http://m.bbc.co.uk/weather/2648579

Your point? Weather is like that over most of the country

Weird half for Glasgow - they should be up by 20 points by now.

maestegmafia wrote:Not impressed with the crowd...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/weather/2648579 practically every day

Its all very flat

nathan wrote:Its all very flat

It's wet and windy...! When conditions are poor it makes it very difficult to play an exciting game. Likewise a lot of players are more likely to drop passes and miss kicks.

This is due to the slipperiness of the ball, can be like trying to catch a bar of wet soap. The wind also effects the flight of the ball massively.

Glasgow really should be out of sight. They are battering the Scarlets though, surely that will take its toll as the second half goes on

maestegmafia wrote:

nathan wrote:Its all very flat

It's wet and windy...! When conditions are poor it makes it very difficult to play an exciting game. Likewise a lot of players are more likely to drop passes and miss kicks.

This is due to the slipperiness of the ball, can be like trying to catch a bar of wet soap. The wind also effects the flight of the ball massively.

Lol, I'm well aware of the effects. It's nothing new,just saying that teams can play better in worse conditions than these.

Glasgow are a difficult team to beat at home.

It isn't windy though and although the ground is wet it isn't even close to raining. Let's not make excuses for extremely poor handling from Glasgow

Good five minutes from the Scarlets.

Wouldnt say a good five minutes as they made 3 errors but that last move showed some continuity and certainly made progress.

Well done James Malcolm having a great debut

Well played Glasgow...!

Did any of the Scarlets retreat behind the kicker

That was like watching Lomu smashing players away in the 90's

How do you stop him!

Just through your body in front and hope he trips up?

nathan wrote:Just through your body in front and hope he trips up?

You may not remember much about it!

Hart is on. Time to hide behind the couch

What a kick from Russell

Glasgow playing some great rugby. That big Aussie winger is some signing...!

Fava to has had a great game

Great kick for that try. Big Tacky justifying his wages today too.

That might have been the best cross kicks I have ever seen. Looked like a touchdown pass in the NFL.

Glasgow have re-found their mojo!

If they could lose it again in 2 weeks that would be very helpful

Wow Scarlets scrum completely dismantled, another Glasgow try.

What happened to Samson Lee scrummaging?

What a great win, playing the Warriors way!

Big Tachy showing us what he is all about.

Finn Russell showing that he does not like being benched

Hoggy showing some long awaited signs of life

The scrum rediscovering their Mojo, with especial credit to the Malcolm kid, who scored and certainly did not disgrace himself!

Even Grayshan Hart showed us that there is a rugby player in there somewhere.

Its taken a little while, but it does look like we are getting back on track!

Good score Glasgow.

Easy win for Glasgow. Scarlets obviously focussing on the PRO12 and paying just enough lip service to get the eurocup money.

B team again next week?

You'd hope not Pot. I'd imagine they'll try and get revenge next week - I guess it depends who they can put out. Scarlets are quite clearly still lacking in squad depth. Didn't see the game but I know guys like Shingler and Rawlings can't really step up to this level.

Well, I think there will be no shortage of posters wanting to eulogise Big Tacky.
So;
Favaro was immense

The GP did amazingly well for a debutant

Hoggie played himself into a good performance and should build on it.

The scrum was on top throughout (when did we last see that?)

Blair controlled the pace and tempo of the match

Dunbar is now operating at about 97%, which is at least 15% ahead of Scotland's answer to Monica Seles in the contest for the Scotland 12 jersey.

I can't think of any Glasgow player who had a poor game. Meatball had a mixed bag, but his errors were when he tried to force things but if you don't buy a ticket you won't win the raffle.

Most satisfying aspect of the day? We saw Glasgow playing the way they can.

I thought Glasgow tried forcing things, sometime a lot. Likely because they felt they had the upper hand. But against better teams that could really cost them. They seemed to me to be more settled in the second half. If they play the rest of their matches with a bit more control and patience, they could be really tough for anyone to deal with.

If they can repeat that performance next week they'll be in a really good place; Russell perhaps let the hype get to him and Duncan Weir, whilst still not being very good, showed he can pretty much almost do a job and he's clearly a trier and God does love a trier. Townsend made the right decision by dropping Russell let's hope that Bennett will prove to be the same when he returns.
Naiyarovoro was outstanding when you combine him with Hogg and Seymour it's hard to think of a more balanced back three in club rugby. But it was a rather weak Scarlets team and that's worth remembering.

Hi Doc, long time no hear. Normally I find myself pretty much agreeing with everything you say but on this occasion ....

Scarlets were playing pretty much their second string so it was our chance to get 5 pointsthereby putting Scarlets out of the tournament and hopefully put them in a position where they play a weakened team next week again. This explains the first 40 where the visitors were hoping to "keep in touch" and hope Glasgow made mistakes trying to force the game. Once Glasgow went two scores ahead and were able to relax they played the kind of high tempo expansive rugby that made them deserved champions last season. It was almost embarrassing when Tacky ran in his intercept try: none of the Scarlets' players around him made any serious effort to stop him: their minds were on games to come in the league (or self preservation).

I can't see Scarlets winning next week which sets up the January visit to Franklin Gardens as a decider between us and Saints.

Saints were just destroyed by Racing Metro, if it's the same result next week then they will probably be out of the tournament, if we can get the next two wins it sets up a double header for the group between us and Racing Metro with the decider at home. I'd back Glasgow to beat almost anybody at Scotstoun in a much win game, we see it season after season around the play-offs.

Well done Glasgow. A fantastic second half

A combination of injuries and resting first choice players meant this game was gifted to Glasgow. Scarlets suffering from a small squad with a number of fringe players struggling at this level.

Hopefully next season with the injured star players restored to fitness Davies and Patchel together with at least one new big tough lock forward they should be more competitive.

Missed the game and forgot to tape it....anyone know when the highlights will be out on youtube or Warriors Tv?

From the looks of the line-ups, I am not overly shocked. Scarlets should use next week to get their players ready for the derby games against the Osprey's. Win both and they should finish the Pro 12 as the top ranked welsh side.

Well that was a bit better tonight, wasn't it.

Lovely result. Well down Glasgow.