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December 09, 2009

A tale of two tables

Posted by Editor on December 9, 2009 03:08 PM | 2 comments | Print | E-mail author

Dan Turner starts for Glasgow
Glasgow head coach Sean Lineen has challenged his players to play like league leaders when they take on Gloucester in the Heineken Cup.

The Warriors moved top of the Magners League last Friday when they beat Ulster 25-13 in Belfast, but their European fortunes are at the other end of the spectrum.

Sean, who will welcome back Scotland joint-captain Chris Cusiter for Friday's Firhill clash, said: "It's a tale of two tables.

"In the Magners League we're at the top but in the Heineken Cup we're at the bottom.

"We need to play like a team that's at the top of the Magners League to do our current position justice."

Glasgow, who lost their two opening Pool 2 games to Newport-Gwent Dragons and Biarritz, have made three changes to the team that won in Northern Ireland.

Chris Cusiter returns to the number nine jersey and Peter Murchie takes over on the wing from youngster Alex Dunbar, while Dan Turner replaces Tim Barker in the pack.

As a result of the changes, Thom Evans moves to the right wing and Richie Gray moves to the left hand side of the scrum.

Sean is now looking for his team to atone for their narrow home defeat by Biarritz, during which Glasgow let slip a nine-point lead.

He said: "We're still disappointed with what happened with the Biarritz game so we need to make sure we're back on form at Firhill to show the supporters what we've got as a professional sports team.

"Last weekend, I was particularly impressed with the way in which the players performed in such a hostile environment, especially our younger forwards like Jon Welsh, Richie Gray and Richie Vernon."

Glasgow Warriors

15 Bernardo Stortoni

14 Thom Evans
13 Max Evans
12 Graeme Morrison
11 Peter Murchie

10 Dan Parks
9 Chris Cusiter

1 Jon Welsh
2 Dougie Hall
3 Moray Low
4 Richie Gray
5 Dan Turner
6 Kelly Brown
7 John Barclay CAPTAIN
8 Richie Vernon

Substitutes

16 Fergus Thomson
17 Ed Kalman
18 Kevin Tkachuk
19 Tim Barker
20 Calum Forrester
21 Mark McMillan
22 Colin Gregor
23 DTH van der Merwe

Posted by Osama bin Hidin on December 9, 2009 05:15 PM | Reply to this comment

Good to see Barclay keeping the captain's armband. But Al Kellock and Johnnie Beattie? Not even on the bench? Eh? Have I missed something?

Posted by mediumsizedal on December 9, 2009 05:43 PM | Reply to this comment

Think they are both carrying minor knocks. Maybe precaution since focus has to be on maintaining league top 4. A previous post mentioned that maybe we don't give enough praise-so..........very well done so far, that was an excellent performance last week, especially Parks under the conditions. Let's hope the momentum can be maintained - 2 wins against the enemy over Christmas would be great!!

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