Glasgow v Edinburgh 22dec

[The Feral Goat]

15. Wes Goosen (19)
14. Darcy Graham (61)
13. Matt Currie (25)
12. James Lang (44)
11. Duhan van der Merwe (81)
10. Ben Healy (8)
9. Ali Price (4)

1. Pierre Schoeman (104)
2. Ewan Ashman (8)
3. WP Nel (193)
4. Glen Young (31)
5. Grant Gilchrist (194) CAPTAIN
6. Jamie Ritchie (102)
7. Hamish Watson (145)
8. Viliame Mata (123)

Replacements

16. Dave Cherry (78)
17. Boan Venter (52)
18. D’Arcy Rae (1)
19. Marshall Sykes (50)
20. Luke Crosbie (90)
21. Ben Vellacott (46)
22. Mark Bennett (95)
23. Emiliano Boffelli (31)

Unavailable: Luan de Bruin (back), Jake Henry (knee), Jamie Hodgson (ankle), Cam Neild (knee), Harry Paterson (concussion), Javan Sebastian (knee), Scott Steele (hip), Tim Swiel (concussion).

[The Feral Goat]

1 Jamie Bhatti (95)
2 George Turner (95)
3 Zander Fagerson (135)
4 Scott Cummings (112)
5 Richie Gray (108)
6 Ally Miller (20)
7 Rory Darge (38)
8 Sione Vailanu (27)

9 George Horne (104)
10 Ross Thompson (42)
11 Kyle Rowe (7)
12 Stafford McDowall (65)
13 Sione Tuipulotu (C) (42)
14 Huw Jones (63)
15 Josh McKay (34)

Replacements

16 Johnny Matthews (58)
17 Nathan McBeth (29)
18 Oli Kebble (92)
19 Greg Peterson (41)
20 Max Williamson (4)
21 Henco Venter (5)
22 Ben Afshar (3)
23 Tom Jordan (33)

Unavailable for selection: Fraser Brown (knee), Gregor Brown (knee), Sebastian Cancelliere (neck), Jack Dempsey (face), Jamie Dobie (ankle), Matt Fagerson (face), Sintu Manjezi (foot), JP du Preez (knee), Ollie Smith (knee), Lucio Sordoni (shoulder), Kyle Steyn (ankle), Murphy Walker (knee)

[The Feral Goat]

As usual should be some good match ups, front and back rows, 9s.

Think Glasgow edge it in the centres but our back 3 stronger may depend which get the better service.

Our bench is a fair bit stronger and could be the difference.

[doedin]

Should be a good match up with both teams going full steam on this one! Weather forecast looks reasonable so should see good game of rugby with both teams trying to play rugby these days. Embra might swing it with boot of Healy?

[The Feral Goat]

Classic 1872 slug fest not a great match.

Glasgow look more dangerous early on but once we got some possession and discipline did ok.

ashman has been very good.

Should be ahead somehow, but aren't . Got to take chances.

[The Feral Goat]

Ffs we got nothing for our scrum dominance

One of Cummings ruck entries was straight out of Irish finishing school torpedoe off feet.

Weather was SteveWalsh but we have to take chances and.be more efficient in red zone.

[Impega]

It looked like we were getting the upper hand for a brief period, but Glasgow definitely deserved that overall.

Outmuscled in the mauls, absolutely no apparent attacking strategy (which, several games into the season, is getting pretty worrying to be honest) and terrible discipline. Ritchie having one of his liability-rather-than-asset days.

Kicking the ball out at the end rather than at least attempting to get up the field for a losing bonus point was a sorry sight to see, frankly - league points are more important than the 1872 aggregate score.

A really disappointing night.

[Pitfitter1105]

Couldn’t get into rhythm and the yellow killed it

[The Feral Goat]

Kicking the ball out at the end rather than at least attempting to get up the field for a losing bonus point was a sorry sight to see, frankly - league points are more important than the 1872 aggregate score.

A really disappointing night.

In that weather in that position no way we were going coast to coast, struggled to break the line all match, kick out and dont risk giving Glasgow getting a Try BP, right decision for me.

[Fanscene]

Ffs we got nothing for our scrum dominance

One of Cummings ruck entries was straight out of Irish finishing school torpedoe off feet.

Weather was SteveWalsh but we have to take chances and.be more efficient in red zone.

Glasgow did the very dark arts well, and the ref allowed it.

Lots of late hits, driving well beyond the ball, in from side and torpedo off feet.

Also taking players out that weren’t in the ruck, creating that extra bit of space. As for blocking the kick chase.

Didn’t do enough to win, but we were reffed differently at the breakdown! You could see our players getting frustrated,

[Frank]

Just home from a horrible Scotstoun and the weather was terrible too.

So disappointed at our capitulation. Blame it on the ref all you like, but I think we were very lucky no to lose more players to yellow cards. There was very little energy in defence and our players were every biit as guilty a the 'dark arts' as Glasgow were. I doubt there is a player more adept at this than Ritchie.
When Glasgow brought their subs on the game got away from us in the last 1/4. As far as the 1872 cup is concerned, it's far from and if we play to our potential we can turn it round, however if we continue to lose games that we should be winning it will be no more than a consolation.

A word on Scotstoun. They really are the unfriendliest bunch and the Weedgie sense of humour is sadly missing. The constant shouts of offside or not straight is so tiresome, but the epitome of their 'banter' was singing Cheerio, Cheerio as we left a few minutes early. That along with the result and the booing of Ali Price made for a fairly dreadful night.

[Castlecannon]

Scotstoun cannot be very easy place to play these days. The pitch is tired and sections of their fans ( a noisy minority ) are a pretty toxic lot who might be more at home along the road at Ibrox . Healey didn’t have the best of times in use of possession and seemed out of sorts . The play with Ally Miller out wide was an example of an attack that seems well coached in options within their structure. Edinburgh on the other hand looked too predictable .