Glasgow Warriors

Glasgow Warriors

Full name	Glasgow Warriors
Founded	1872 (1872)[1]
Location	Glasgow, Scotland
Ground(s)	Scotstoun Stadium (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	Charles Shaw
Coach(es)	Gregor Townsend
Captain(s)	Alastair Kellock
Most caps	Graeme Morrison (175)
Top scorer	Dan Parks (1105)
Most tries	DTH van der Merwe (31)
League(s)	Pro12
2013–14	2nd (playoff finalist)
Team kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.glasgowwarriors.org
Current season

Glasgow Warriors, formerly Glasgow Rugby, is one of the two professional rugby teams from Scotland. The team plays in the Pro12 and the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments along with its oldest rivals, Edinburgh Rugby. The Glasgow Warriors team plays its home games at Scotstoun Stadium.^[2][3]

History

Glasgow Rugby was created to compete in the Heineken Cup, because the Scotland Rugby Union did not think that Scottish club sides would be able to compete against the best teams from France and England.^[4] Glasgow, however, did not compete in the Heineken Cup until the 1997–98 season.

Because of the SRU's high debt, partly as a result of the redevelopment of Murrayfield there was a recognised need for further reorganisation. After two seasons, Glasgow merged with the Caledonia Reds to form a team that would be known as Glasgow Caledonians.^[5]

Concerns about attendances at games became a concern again at the time of the 1999 World Cup, by which time a Welsh/Scottish League had been announced. In essence, this would be the Welsh First Division augmented by the two Scottish sides.^[6]

The Celtic League began in the autumn of 2001; Glasgow reached the semi-finals of the inaugural competition, but struggled thereafter. From the 2002–03 season the 'Caledonian' label was dropped at the start of the 2002–03 season, with the team name becoming Glasgow Rugby.^[7] Starting with the 2005–06 season, the team was again rebranded, this time as the Glasgow Warriors.^[4]

The forced merger came just after Glasgow had shown some signs of progress by qualifying for the Heineken Cup quarter-final play-offs, in which they suffered their heaviest defeat (90–19) to Leicester Tigers.^[8] The intention was that the combined strength of the new teams would build on such modest progress and initially some very successful results were achieved, including a 1999 win against Leicester (30–17), but overall the team lacked consistency.

In 2004/5 Glasgow had been fifth, the best placing of the three Scottish teams that existed at that time.^[9]

In the summer of 2012 Glasgow Warriors moved from Firhill to Scotstoun, which had previously been the club's training base.^[10]

Season 2006/07

Magners League	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Difference	Tries For	Tries Against	Try Bonus	Losing Bonus	Points
7th	20	11	0	9	434	419	+15	42	49	3	2	49

After impressive preseason displays, Glasgow Warriors played its first game in the new Celtic League against Newport Gwent Dragons, losing 23–24 after a last minute penalty.^[11]

Glasgow then did not lose another home game until Ulster came to Hughenden in January 2007.^[12] Glasgow drew away to English side Saracens in the European Challenge Cup, en route to a quarter-final berth, but was drawn against Saracens and lost 23–19 at Vicarage Road.

The Warriors defeated both Scottish rivals just a week apart Edinburgh ^[13] and Border Reivers,^[14] and at the start of April, title hopefuls Leinster arrived at Hughenden. Glasgow won the game 26–20,^[15] before following it up with a good away win against Irish side Connacht.^[16] The next game saw Glasgow travel to Ravenhill to face Ulster, one of only 2 sides to beat them at Hughenden, and the team stunned the home crowd by winning the game.^[17]

Then it was the turn of Welsh side, the Neath-Swansea Ospreys (a side that would win the title at Netherdale the following week) to travel to Hughenden. The Ospreys crossed the Glasgow try-line within 45 seconds, and crossed twice more to take a (26–9) lead just minutes from half-time, before Glasgow's Dan Parks converted his own try to take it to 26–16 at half time. In the second half, Parks kicked another penalty before setting up Graeme Morrison for a try, which he converted to level the scores. Parks kicked a penalty from just shy of the half way line to take a 3 point lead and the Ospreys couldn't find a way out of their own half for the remaining 20 minutes.^[18]

The Warriors failed to make it 5 in a row the following week, but coach Sean Lineen was happy with his team's performance over the season nonetheless.

Seasons: 2007–08 — present

Season	League Finish	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Tries For	Tries Against	Try Bonus	Losing Bonus	Points
2007–08	5th	18	10	7	1	340	349	–9	31	38	1	3	46
2008–09	7th	18	7	11	0	349	375	–26	36	41	4	5	37
2009–10	SF	18	11	5	2	390	321	+69	31	24	2	1	51
2010–11	DNQ	22	6	15	1	401	543	–142	33	48	1	6	33
2011–12	SF	22	13	5	4	445	321	+124	34	23	2	3	64
2012–13	SF	22	16	6	0	541	324	+217	66	30	9	3	76
2013–14	2nd	22	18	4	0	484	309	+175	53	22	4	3	79

Honours

• Pro12
  • Finalist: 2014

• Melrose 7s
  • Champions: 2014, 2015

Current standings

Pro12 Table
	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points For	Points Against	Points Difference	Tries For	Tries Against	Try Bonus	Losing Bonus	Points
1	Glasgow Warriors (Q)	20	15	1	4	498	329	+169	58	30	8	0	70
2	Munster (Q)	20	14	1	5	508	317	+191	59	25	7	3	68
3	Ulster (Q)	20	14	1	5	491	317	+174	56	29	6	3	67
4	Ospreys (Q)	20	14	1	5	501	328	+173	48	27	6	2	66
5	Leinster	20	9	3	8	437	352	+85	48	37	7	4	53
6	Scarlets	20	9	3	8	419	369	+50	40	37	4	3	49
7	Edinburgh	20	10	1	9	371	364	+7	38	42	3	3	48
8	Connacht	20	9	1	10	387	385	+2	41	44	2	4	44
9	Newport Gwent Dragons	20	7	0	13	347	429	−82	33	46	3	6	37
10	Cardiff Blues	20	6	1	13	395	524	−129	41	55	2	2	30
11	Benetton Treviso	20	3	1	16	293	614	−321	32	78	2	2	18
12	Zebre	20	3	0	17	251	570	−319	25	69	0	3	15
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[19] number of matches won; the difference between points for and points against; the number of tries scored; the most points scored; the difference between tries for and tries against; the fewest number of red cards received; the fewest number of yellow cards received.
Green background (rows 1 to 4) are play-off places, and earn a place in the European Rugby Champions Cup. Blue background indicates teams outside the play-off places, that earn a place in the European Rugby Champions Cup. The top team from each country will qualify. Yellow background indicates the team that advances to a play-off semi-final against the seventh placed side from the Aviva Premiership, or the 2014–15 European Rugby Challenge Cup winners if they have not already qualified for the competition.[20] Plain background indicates teams that earn a place in the European Rugby Challenge Cup.

Current squad

2014-15 Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player Position Union Fraser Brown Hooker Scotland Kevin Bryce Hooker Scotland Dougie Hall Hooker Scotland Pat MacArthur Hooker Scotland Alex Allan Prop Scotland Michael Cusack Prop England Ryan Grant Prop Scotland George Hunter Prop Scotland Rossouw de Klerk Prop South Africa Euan Murray Prop Scotland Gordon Reid Prop Scotland Jon Welsh Prop Scotland Jerry Yanuyanutawa Prop Fiji Jonny Gray Lock Scotland Alastair Kellock (c) Lock Scotland Leone Nakarawa Lock Fiji Tim Swinson Lock Scotland Adam Ashe Flanker Scotland Will Bordill Flanker Scotland James Eddie Flanker Scotland Chris Fusaro Flanker Scotland Rob Harley Flanker Scotland Tyrone Holmes Flanker Scotland Andy Redmayne Flanker Scotland Josh Strauss Number 8 South Africa Ryan Wilson Number 8 Scotland

Player Position Union Nikola Matawalu Scrum-half Fiji Murray McConnell Scrum-half Scotland Henry Pyrgos Scrum-half Scotland Fraser Lyle Fly-half Scotland Finn Russell Fly-half Scotland Duncan Weir Fly-half Scotland Mark Bennett Centre Scotland James Downey Centre Ireland Alex Dunbar Centre Scotland Peter Horne Centre Scotland Richie Vernon Centre Scotland Rory Hughes Wing Scotland Lee Jones Wing Scotland Sean Lamont Wing Scotland Sean Maitland Wing Scotland D.T.H. van der Merwe Wing Canada Tommy Seymour Wing Scotland Connor Braid Fullback Canada Stuart Hogg Fullback Scotland Peter Murchie Fullback Scotland

Elite Development Players

Coaches and Management

Coaches:

• Gregor Townsend – Head Coach
• Shade Munro – Forwards Coach
• Matt Taylor – Defence Coach

Management:

• Nathan Bombrys – Managing Director

Notable former players

Graeme Beveridge Kelly Brown Alan Bulloch Gordon Bulloch James Craig Thom Evans Chris Cusiter Lee Harrison Dave Hilton Rory Lamont Graeme Morrison John Barclay Scott Lawson Shaun Longstaff

Kenny Logan Andrew Henderson Donnie Macfadyen Cameron Mather Glenn Metcalfe Euan Murray Andy Nicol Dan Parks Jon Petrie Johnnie Beattie Richie Gray Max Evans Hefin O'Hare Jason White

Bernardo Stortoni Federico Aramburú Kevin Tkachuk Tommy Hayes Daryl Gibson Lome Fa'atau Opeta Palepoi

See also

• Scottish Rugby Union
• Celtic League
• Heineken Cup
• European Challenge Cup

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glasgow Warriors.

• Official site
• Official Supporters club site - Blog site of The XVIth Warrior: Official Supporters club
• glasgowwarriors,com – an unofficial fan website
• Heineken Cup page

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