Edinburgh and Glasgow Get Back to Business
Missing your fix of quality Scottish rugby this weekend? The RaboPRO12 rumbles on, and both Edinburgh and Glasgow are on the telly. At the same time.
Glasgow 10-10 Leinster
Christie Lester reports in from Firhill where Glasgow welcomed league leaders Leinster.
Big Vili Style
Glasgow have announced two signings to strengthen their pack, a Tongan internationalist and a Scottish qualifed lock.
Connacht 13-13 Glasgow
Glasgow headed to blowy Galway looking to squeeze out a tricky away win but came unstuck right at the end to share the spoils.
Action Jackson’s Back, Son
Sean Lineen announces a 24 man squad to face the Scarlets on Thursday. It’s on the TV too!
Glasgow Snubbed By Sky
If you look at the Sky Sports page for this final weekend of pool action, you’ll notice that in all the pools you can watch a choice of either final match on the main channel or the red button. Unless that is, you support Glasgow or Bath.
Hatching Heineken Plans
As Edinburgh and Glasgow go searching for success in the Heineken Cup this weekend it is important to understand that both teams must go to the extremes of their outlay if they are to keep their European fate in their own hands. They have pulled off some fantastic results, but as the old adage goes “one […]
Glasgow Warriors 17 – 12 Edinburgh Rugby
The deciding 1872 Cup game. The atmosphere was charged, even if some heads were sore. It was dark, but the fans expected more fire. Of course those expectations were founded on the belief that Glasgow had named a team as strong as they could whilst Edinburgh, with one eye on future fixtures in the Heineken […]
The Hangover: 1872 Part II
Glasgow are trying to cultivate a party atmosphere ahead of the deciding 1872 Cup fixture. On New Year’s Day there will be a George Square party, situated at the Winter Cafe Bar, and good vibes will be pumped out through player appearances (before 4pm), tunes and a wee swally. Glasgow are trying to imbue positivity. […]
The 1872 Stalemate
You’ll have gotten up today and sat down at your breakfast table, poured some juice, spread over some slightly charred toast and opened your paper. Looked at the sports section. You’ll see that Edinburgh drew with Glasgow at home 23-23. You’ll see that the attendance was 13,240. You’ll smile and, like Scott Johnson, you’ll think, […]
Reaching Critical Massimo
On Monday afternoon the peace will be broken and two packs will crumple into each other. At the crush of the scrummage both Edinburgh and Glasgow will be fighting to gain as many inches of ground as possible. One man will be delighted whatever the outcome is. With a burst of glee Scotland’s scrum coach […]
I Was Monty’s Double
Glasgow announced earlier in the week that Sean Lamont is to join his brother Rory at the Warriors from next season, following a successful spell at Welsh region the Scarlets where he has played not only wing, but also centre and fullback. Indeed this year’s Six Nations went on to see Sean collect unexpected international […]
Montpellier 13-13 Glasgow
Glasgow travelled to the south of France to face Montpellier, eager to grab some points from a fixture that saw an understrength team defend their impressive stadium. And in the end that is pretty much what happened, though maybe not as either team would desire.
Glasgow Win Takes Them 2nd In Pool 3
Glasgow Warriors 20 – 15 Montpellier Herault In this country we like to cling onto good feelings. That’s why we have a whole month of Christmas. Unfortunately for visitors Montpellier they did not find hosts Glasgow in a festive mood as they went down in their third round Heineken Cup match at Firhill despite outscoring […]
Heineken Cup Teams for the Weekend
In amongst all this horrific weather – now forever immortalised as Hurricane Bawbag – the brave souls at Edinburgh rugby have taken flight to Cardiff for the first of their back-to-back fixtures.