A great try by Dave MCCall in his first game for Glasgow!

Gonnae sum-buddy please explain the 20 point 'gift' eftir hawf-time.... Wrap it up as you will, a loss is a loss. Paper and tables don't lie. However, managers and head coaches do....

Stop talkin' gie us some hope, cos rightabout now, Rob Moffat is laughing up his sleeve - not that its a bad thing; Boxing day and the 2nd Jan looks like a waste o' petrol...

Gutted that we threw away a decent lead in the 2nd half. The Scotsman match report has a go at the referee and I know that in rugby you are meant not meant to blame the referee for losing a game, but this one was so inconsistent and made too many bizarre decisions. The situation wasn't helped by totally gutless and myopic linesmen who never once flagged any for anything. Even Tommy Bowe could be seen remonstrating with the linesman for something blatant that he and the ref had missed. Nikki Walker's try should have been disallowed for either a preceding forward pass or for at least 2 illegal blocks just before the touchdown. In the 2nd half the ospreys were lying over the ball, going of their feet and coming in from the side at every breakdown. Alun wyn jones came in to the side of a ruck so illegally that he missed it altogether and passed behind our scrum half. The icing on the cake had to be the scrum where we were pushing them back and the ref awarded a penalty to the ospreys coz he said we'd pulled it down, a difficult trick to pull off when you actually shoving the opposition backwards and are still on your feet. Rant over.

worried, really worried

we look fragile - horrible feeling about table reading Connacht and Glasgow propping up table

Good crowd size. How was the Scrum?

DrGreg spot on about ref. Shocker.
Still look like we are a hard player short in front 5 - if only we had the money to have got Nathan Hines or Jason White in the Summer.John Barclay got a couple of shocking hits and seems to take that of a lot of teams. Cynical. We never seemed to bring Thom into the game in any kind of space; we really do need Max back for creativity behind. And big Rob D - he has some attributes but his weaknesses really are that and I doubt he will make it as a winger.

Come on how can you blame the referee and linesman for continually kicking away posession and playing with out an ounce of pride or professionalism, as well as the missed tackles.

It was embarrasing and the excuses still keep coming from Lineen.

The worst bit for me was Barclay lying flat out in the middle of the pitch feigning injury whilst the Ospreys romped up the park for another try. When he realised he wasn't going to be able to con the referee he got up and sprinted away. Pathetic.

Lineen just sits in the stand and shakes his head. He was an integral part of the previous coaching set up and failed miserably then, just as he is doing now.

It simply isn't good enough.

"feigning injury"......are you serious? if you have such a downer on the team and are so negative about everything that happens then dont go. barclay is the one player on that field that will never give up or stop giving his all.

Pathetic stuff from you S153

I call it as I see it, you may watch the game through Lineen's rose tinted milk bottles, I don't.
Watched the game yesterday again and Barclay pretended to be injured, he lay on the ground then looked up, saw that play had moved on and he mad a miraculous recovery and sprinted back into action. It was there for all to see. Of course by then it was to late and the Ospreys had scored a try.
You might want to defned the indefensible, I can't and won't.
There was no one happier than me with the first two results, the last two have been shockers.
A 20 point turnaround in the second half at home is pathetic.

Your medical qualifications must be pretty impressive to be able make a judgement on Barclay's state of health all the way from the main stand. You may call it as you see it but you'd be better off thinking before you post such drivel.

No medical qualifications needed. If a player hits the turf and lies there as if they have been pole axed for a while then looks up to see play has moved on then quickly jumps to his feet and rejoins the game (whilst I may add the other team scored a try), then there is eff all wrong with him and he was trying to cheat.

The only drivel is coming from you old son and your pathetic defense of a blatant cheat!

You really ought to chuck it. You're just embarrassing yourself, but looking back at some of your previous posts, it comes as no surprise.

Dr Greg, agree totally.

What about the touch judge Mr Allan, who was on the dugout side in the second half.

The move prior to Ospreys try, when the winger recieved the ball in his own half. The ball was a forward pass, spotted by the touch judge, who stopped and spoke into his communication equipment, to in-form the referee. Referee lets play continue, touch judge sets off after play and eventually catches up after Rob Dewey kicked the ball out of play. Mr Allan indicates its a Glasgow throw, which it is obviously not. Oepreys win line out, two phases later score try.

What is the point of match officials being "miked up" if they are not going to use equipment properly?

PS Getting as bad as football, always discussing referees, however I pay good money to watch honest game of rugby, not one spoiled by bad officiating.

Totally agree with all JMG says - in fact the fellow I was sitting in front of said exactly the same thing! Touch judges should just have the mikes taken away from them as they only appear to use them if it will get them some attention. The general standard of officiating is abysmal these days in Scotland. I watched a Prem 2 game yesterday where, although one side was winning easily, the ref and his accomplices were the worst participants on the park by a long way. The SRU should do something about this!

I believe Mr McDowell was the very same man that Matt Williams got hot under the collar about for his performances refereeing Scotland matches.

Remember Ally Hogg's supposed "foot in touch" ?

Aye, the ref was one of the worst I've ever seen.The penalty for the scrum collapse was outrageous and got them into the game in the 2nd half.

I know we might have picked up a yellow, but the backs and asses of the Ospreys should br red raw from shoeings. At least this may have pointed out to the ref what was going on.
And why was the no 10 not yellowed for blatantly picking the ball up 20 yards offside when the full back sclaffed his kick? Evans would probably have scored.

However we do need to get streetwise and play on incompetent refs like McDowell. We're far too nice.

I agree the ref was bad, but really the Ospreys were too street wise for us. They played on the very edge of the rules all game and got away with it. The blatant block to allow the sub ( I don't remember his name!) a one on one with Dave Mcall to get the last try was brutal.

Maybe right about the bad ref,
Glasgow at HOME, not scoring in the second half with 10mns at 15 V 14.........
Glasgow needs a STRONG ball carrier and a real powerfull 2nd row.
Kellock is a good player but so light, Alun-Wyn Jones should have been bullied often.