Grim. Absolutely grim. Jackson had a terrible night - poor placekicking, aimless kicking from hand and too many missed touchfinders. Cardiff must be laughing themselves silly that we've sold them our fly half. On the basis of last night Jackson has a very short time to improve for next season - or we wont be near the top of the table again.
I thought we had a pretty strong squad but take away Parks, Barclay, Beattie, Brown and Thom and we are ordinary.
And although we were terrible enough to lose the game on our own - a big thanks to the referee for once again showing the quality of officiating in the Magners League to be a complete joke. Were Cardiff ever onside at a ruck last night? And constantly in at the side. Several forward passes also missed. I really resent paying 20 quid a throw to see "cute" teams take the complete mickey out of referees - and touch judges who are so anonymous that they look as if they're only there to be out the house for a couple of hours. They need to keep the ref right - but the cat seems to have got their tongue.

Grim yes, but it really just displays the lack of depth we have in Scotland. Most of the young lads who were on display last night are good enough players with talent. However Scottish Rugby needs to look at how much actual game time these boys are getting and the level of rugby they are playing. In club rugby there is an adage that your 1st XV is only as good as your 2nd XV and for our pro game there is no 2nd XV - merely a crowd of gym rats who might if they are lucky get a couple of back-up games - poor quality really - and a few outings on the bench. And although Parks may be the man of the moment, there is no doubt that Ruaraidh is the man of the future but he needs that vital game time to learn how to manage the game. For God's sake give our young players a chance!

at the end of the day Sean Lineen is judged on the performances in the league and at this stage lat year there were grumblings about a change needed. So can't really blame him for picking the front line guys most of the time.

We do seem to have had fewer 2nd's games this year than previous years. The only suggestion i can think of to get more games for the back up guys is to make a semi pro regional tournament - whether the club guys would be happy with more of their players away is potentially a stumbling block.

Finally I think this is the year we have to do something (at least the final) as I don't think we will have the depth next year to challenge. Also given the fixture list over the next few weeks last night was a must win game. We don't have a good record away to connaght, and away games to Munster and Leinster are not games to pick up points. really need to win one maybe two of these games.

At the end of the day, is Sean really judged by our position and performance in the Magners league or the number of our players in the Scotland squad? He has already said that his job is to develop players for the Scotland team .. not for Glasgow. What do Glasgow fans want? We have 2 threads here .. Warriors 7 Cardiff 30 ..and 13 Warriors in Scotland squad. Which is more important to Glasgow fans? We obviously cannot have both!

But we can have both, 13 players in international duty and a successful ML team. Suspend ML matches during 6 nations, make 6 nations over 5 weeks. Very very simples!

Only having 2 teams makes it very hard for us to absorb player losses.