Young players like Jon Welsh, Richie Gray and Richie Vernon have played a big role in Glasgow's journey to the top of the Magners League. And Al thinks the clubs have played their part in their development.
The Glasgow skipper told the Glaswegian: "The club scene must be credited for bringing those guys on. Take West Of Scotland for example. They had the likes of Gray, Vernon and Welsh farmed out to them and the game time and coaching they got from Johnny Beattie there gave them enough grounding to come back to us and say to Sean, 'We're ready', and they were as this season has shown.
"Jon Welsh was frustrated in not getting into the Glasgow squad but he went to West got some matches under his belt, no doubt picked a few tips from the management there and came back a more rounded player and ready to scrum against the best the Magners League has to offer.
"Attitude is another quality which our young guys have in abundance. Even when they are told they haven't made the team for a Magners match, they are onto their allocated clubs straight away declaring their availability for the weekend -with players as hungry as that, it is no surprise they play well when Glasgow select them.
"It also helps that the level of coaching in the club scene is of a high standard that these guys go there and learn of the likes of Beattie, Peter Wright etc and add it to their own game.
"Naturally this can't happen without good co-peration between Glasgow and the clubs ando it is good that there are open channels between Sean and the club bosses -a marked change from the situation when Scotland did go professional but we've now reached a good working relationship between both parties where we've both flourished.
"I think the clubs do benefit from there being a pro-team in Glasgow. The awareness of rugby has increased by the promotion and publicity generated by the PR staff.
"Crowds have increased and more young kids are taking up the sport aspiring to be the next Dan Parks or Thom Evans. That's got to help the clubs and they do a great job of developing the young guys who do want to go into professional rugby."
Spreading the word has also been key to the local game's resurgance says the Warriors skipper.
Al said "The community work we do has got a lot better compared to when I first arrived.
"The game's and the Warriors' profile has increased over the years and we're getting more receptive audiences by the day with kids who can't go to play rugby.
"I go back to my old school Alan Glens and coach the kids there because I enjoy it and also to aid me as a player to appreciate more what coaches are saying to me.
"One good thing about our community programme is we go to all schools -state and private -which helps not only dismantle the age-old image of rugby being for the latter but taps into the state pupils who want to play the game or thought it to be for fee-paying schools only and create a new audience.
"The kid camps the Warriors run in the summer are very succesful with kids from all walks of life coming along and learning both rugby and social skills and having a great time on the back of it.
"My sister teaches at a primary school and runs a rugby after-school club and in each of the places she's taught at, there have only been a couple who have played before and t h e response she gets from the rest is superb.
"I go along sometimes to coach and ref the odd tournament she organises -although with the latter it's the parents you have to worry about."