HC, Pool 2, Round 4: Glasgow Warriors v Cardiff Blues

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Glasgow Warriorsv Cardiff Blues
 
Friday 13 December 2013, KO 20:00
Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow
 
Live on Sky Sports
 
Referee Pascal "I am not George Clancy" Gauzere (France)
Touch Judge 1 Patrick Pechambert (France)
Touch Judge 2 Jean-Luc Rebollal (France)
Fourth Official Philippe Bonhoure (France)
TMO Philippe Bonhoure (France)

Citing Commissioner John Cole (Ireland)
 
A. HC Form (last 4 games):
 
1. Warriors
 
6/12/13
Blues 29 - 20 Glasgow

20/10/13
Glasgow 20 - 16 Chiefs
 
13/10/13
Toulon 51 - 28 Glasgow
 
19/1/13
Glasgow 27 - 20 Saints
 
2. Blues

6/12/13
Blues 29 - 20 Glasgow
 
19/10/13
Blues 19 - 15 Toulon
 
13/10/13
Chiefs 44 - 29 Blues
 
19/1/13
Blues 26 - 14 Sharks

B. Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	BP	PTS
1	Toulon	3	2	0	1	80	56	2	10
2	Cardiff Blues	3	2	0	1	77	79	1	9
3	Exeter	3	1	0	2	69	63	3	7
4	Glasgow	3	1	0	2	68	96	1	5

C. Teams
 
1. Warriors

15 Hogg
14 Maitland
13 McGuigan
12 Dunbar
11 Seymour
10 Jackson
09 Matawalu

01 Grant
02 MacArthur
03 Welsh
04 Nakarawa
05 Kellock
06 Harley
07 Holmes
08 Wilson

16 Hall
17 Big Jerry
18 Kalman
19 Strauss
20 Fusaro
21 Cusiter
22 Weir
23 DTH

2. Blues
 
15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Richard Smith, 12 Rhys Patchell, 11 Harry Robinson, 10 Gareth Davies, 9 Lloyd Williams; 1 Sam Hobbs (c), 2 Kristian Dacey, 3 Taufa'ao Filise, 4 Chris Dicomidis, 5 Filo Paulo, 6 Macauley Cook, 7 Rory Watts-Jones, 8 Robin Copeland.
 
16 Marc Breeze, 17 Thomas Davies, 18 Benoit Bourrust, 19 James Down, 20 Ellis Jenkins, 21 Andries Pretorius, 22 Lewis Jones, 23 Dan Fish

 
D. Parliamo Glasgow:
 
Alphabetty Spaghetti - D.T.H. van der Merwe, wing
Angel - Gabriel Ascarate, centre
Angela - Jon Welsh, prop
Barry - Byron McGuigan, wing
Big Boab - (see Ginger Tackle Monster, the)
Big Mike - (see Coo, the)
Big Naka - Leone Nakarawa, lock/loosie
Bluto - Josh Strauss, loosie/no.8
Centre, the - (see Lesser Messiah, the)
Coo, the - Michael Cusack, prop
Cooseetah - (see Cus)
Cus - Chris Cusiter, scrum half
DTH - (see Alphabetty Spaghetti)
Flippy - (see Toonie)
Fozzy - Christopher Fusaro, loosie
Furra Lineeeee - Peter Horne, centre
Ginger Tackle Monster, the - Rob Harley, loosie
Guns - Tim Swinson, lock
Henners - Henry Pyrgos, scrum half
Hoggy - Stuart Hogg, full back/wing/centre
Ickle Jon - Jonny Gray, lock
Jedi - James Eddie, loosie
Lesser Messiah, the - Richie Vernon, loosie/no.8
Mark of Nazareth - (see Messiah, the)
Meatball, the - Duncan Weir, fly half
Messiah, the/ - Mark Bennett, centre
Niko - Nikola Matawalu, scrum half
Niko's Mate - Jerry Yanuyanutawa, prop
No Maits - Sean Maitland, wing
Rhubarb - Ruaridh Jackson, fly half
Ruck Inspector, the - Alastair Kellock, lock
Schlong - Sean Lamont, centre/wing
Sherlock - Tyrone Holmes, loosie
Shrek - Gordon Reid, prop
Toonie - Gregor Peter John Townsend MBE, head coach
Wee P - Pat MacArthur, hooker
Weegie from Fiji, the - (see Niko)

According to Big Al in the Hootsman, the most impressive thing about Naka is the work he does in the scrum and lineout. If he is being truthful then we could be looking at a very solid front five tonight. It also makes Fozzies demotion to the bench more troubling. Toonie obviously felt we were bullied at the breakdown, but with a solid front five and Holmes and the Tackle Monster we're a little short on ball carriers in the back row. Let's hope Naka and Cap'n Kellock put in the hard yards with ball in hand.
Also, I find myself disagreeing with Schiz: this isn't really an experimental lineup. The front row is probably the best available, Gray and Swinson are injured (Gray till January lucky MFL) and Naka played well last week so deserves his chance. Wilson may not have 80 minutes in him yet so keep Bluto on the bench to come on at 8. Actually apart from Naka and Harley it's pretty close to Schiz's preferred pack.
The backs are, again, almost what Schiz wanted except Bennet is injured and Niko starts ahead of Cooseater. Given that Gabriel was less then divine (ouch) last week then Barry is the only option until Richie Vee comes out of the phone booth with his pants over his trousers.
Really Schiz, you sound like the man complaining about his Fish'n'chips when he ordered Chips'n'fish.
If the pack man up and do the basics properly then we can win comfortably. As long as Niko remembers there are 14 other people playing for Glasgow tonight and Naka is half the player Kellock says he is.
C'mon the Warriors WHATEVER IT TAKES

Yeah ok its no too bad - but I expect to see a reaction from last week ! See ! I'm at it now with the giant wenk-speak

Just about to take Pipetto to the school Chrimbo disco, he is slightly hyper, so all of you who are enjoying pre match cocktails...have a good evening and keep us updated.
WHATEVER IT TAKES

Ok mate - I have another bout of "keek (that is keek not keech) through the fingers " at Toytown Scotstoun. Tell Pipetto to lay off the straight vodka and try one of his dad's nice wee malts when he gets home !

He's only 10!!! If I catch him near my malts he's in trouble, no it's the Bucky and Ribena for him.

I see Glasgow are picking up where they left off. Being Poopie

And we're off.
GLA v CAR.
Blue & Blacks v Pink & Blacks.
How confusing.

Great kick from Patchell.  Producing young stars like this can give struggling teams a lot of hope.

Patch does a Thorburn!

What a kick by Patchell

Great touch finder from Patch.

Halfpenny joins the party at last 15mins in and misses a 50m shot at goal.
Should've given it to Patch.

This is brutal from a Glasgow fan point of view.

Glasgow have been very poor.

This is Poopie

cakeordeath wrote:This is brutal from a Glasgow fan point of view.

Cardiff scrum well munched. Pity you don't have a Patch.
Feels like a Rabo game not a HEC encounter.
Great touch finder from the Rags OH followed by a pen from Shove.
6 nil.

Terrible attempt at a box kick from LW. Glasgow on the attack as a result.

Cardiff scrum destroyed again. Penalty try imminent methinks.

How many penalties before a penalty try??

Yellow card first. FFS!

Should have been a penalty try.

Longest scrum ever. Just give them the penalty try and get on with the game

RDW_Scotland wrote:How many penalties before a penalty try??

Should've given a try instead of a yellow card, but there we are.

this is turning into a farce

WTF is wrong with Maitland. He's ... turned Scottish, hasn't he?

cakeordeath wrote:this is turning into a farce

+1 . Someone else said it felt like a Rabo and that's true too.

Hate to say it, Glasgow don't deserve to get out of this group anyway.

Jeez Glasgow made tough work of that!

You feel like Glasgow kind of have to invent their gameplan AROUND Matawalu if he is at 9. He's been waiting for that all night

Whoever is commentating is a man sausage of the highest order, is it Barnes?

Seriously it should have been 6-7 10 minutes ago with 15 men each on the pitch. Christ.

Man, what happened to you Glasgow? You used to be cool.

Wow - massive confidence boost for the blues

cakeordeath wrote:Whoever is commentating is a man sausage of the highest order, is it Barnes?

Sounds like it

cakeordeath wrote:Whoever is commentating is a man sausage of the highest order

Yep.

cakeordeath wrote:is it Barnes?

Yep!

SNORE

Glasgow are getting worse.

I would be peed if I had paid £25 for a ticket

Thoroughly frustrating first 40. That 15 minute period of scrumming on their 5m line should've been 7 points for Glasgow. I'm still a bit shocked that it wasn't.

Last weeks game from Glasgow was dire and this weeks is a bit better but Glasgow's silly errors will get them nowhere!

Well Glasgow promised us a "response" in this game.
I don't think many of us expected it to be a white flag.....

that was a terrible call by the TMO, and Barnes is an idiot. The blues player is competing for the ball at the ruck, Harley clears him out. The blues player never in the defensive line, he is not being "tackled without the ball", what you are seeing is the end of a ruck clearance, not obstruction! ridiculous!

Ineffable wrote:Seriously it should have been 6-7 10 minutes ago with 15 men each on the pitch. Christ.

Agreed.
The Glasgow scrum was clearly on top. Award a try and get on with the game.

Argybargy wrote:Well Glasgow promised us a "response" in this game.
I don't think many of us expected it to be a white flag.....

 

 

The off field stuff effecting Glasgow on the field?
Im watching the O's and to be fair the ref is a crap by the sounds of things.

Pat_Mustard wrote:that was a terrible call by the TMO, and Barnes is an idiot. The blues player is competing for the ball at the ruck, Harley clears him out. The blues player never in the defensive line, he is not being "tackled without the ball", what you are seeing is the end of a ruck clearance, not obstruction! ridiculous!

I agree

DeludedOptimistorjustDave wrote:The off field stuff effecting Glasgow on the field?
Im watching the O's and to be fair the ref is a crap by the sounds of things.

Nice try.

Moving on..

cakeordeath wrote:

Pat_Mustard wrote:that was a terrible call by the TMO, and Barnes is an idiot. The blues player is competing for the ball at the ruck, Harley clears him out. The blues player never in the defensive line, he is not being "tackled without the ball", what you are seeing is the end of a ruck clearance, not obstruction! ridiculous!

I agree

That whole 10 minute period was just stupid. The yellow card was stupid - sure they were committing infringements instead of letting Glasgow run all over them but in professional rugby that's always going to happen. Penalty try, move on.

And yes the "obstruction" was stupid. They should have guards on that ruck that are not involved in trying to turnover the ruck...

Pat_Mustard wrote:that was a terrible call by the TMO, and Barnes is an idiot. The blues player is competing for the ball at the ruck, Harley clears him out. The blues player never in the defensive line, he is not being "tackled without the ball", what you are seeing is the end of a ruck clearance, not obstruction! ridiculous!

Is the TMO isolated from tv commentary?

Lurked for so long here but this first half (and a grim week at work carefully blended with some cheap imported alcobeer) forced me to sign up. It fairly banjoes yir weekend when it starts like this...

Pat_Mustard wrote:that was a terrible call by the TMO, and Barnes is an idiot. The blues player is competing for the ball at the ruck, Harley clears him out. The blues player never in the defensive line, he is not being "tackled without the ball", what you are seeing is the end of a ruck clearance, not obstruction! ridiculous!

Fine line. I agree with that but once the ruck is finished he has to let him go and try and get back onside. He can't see Matawalu but I would still have given the penalty.

50 seconds gone, Glasgow lose 40 yards. FFS