Glasgow Warriors went down 46-22 to Leinster in Dublin this evening in the Heineken Cup with an 8-3 try count against them.
Five of Leinster tries were scored in the first half to keep their hopes alive of qualifying for the knock out stages of the competition.
The Warriors replied with a try from Rory Lamont and a conversion and penalty from Dan Parks in the first half but openside flanker John Barclay was shown a yellow card on the half-way point and spent 10 minutes in the sin bin.
After an assortment of substitutions, the Irish opened the second half scoring through captain Brian O’Driscoll a quarter of an hour into the half and it was O’Driscoll who was also the next to cross the line with a second try twenty minutes later.
More drama was to unfold towards the end of the game with three tries being scored in injury time – two of them from Glasgow through Mike Roberts and John Barclay, the latter of which was converted by sub Colin Gregor.
GLASGOW WARRIORS
Graydon Staniforth (Mike Roberts 42mins), Hefin O’Hare, Graeme Morrison, Andrew Henderson, Rory Lamont, Dan Parks (Colin Gregor 66mins), Graeme Beveridge (Sam Pinder 59 mins), Kevin Tkachuk, Scott Lawson (Fergus Thomson 42 mins), Euan Murray, Dan Turner (Tim Barker 42 mins (Lee Harrison 72 mins), Craig Hamilton, Steve Swindall (Gregor Hayter 67 mins), Jon Petrie CAPTAIN, John Barclay


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This article was posted on 15-Jan-2006, 13:51 by Hugh Barrow.