Scotstoun could provide a long-term home for Glasgow Warriors
With doubts over the availability of Hughenden, Glasgow Warriors could be set for another move next season.
Local opposition may mean that proposals to build on the ground are still some way off, but its Hillhead-Jordanhill owners so far remain unable to give Glasgow the necessary guarantees that will allow them to stay on.

"To go there we need certainty that we can stay there for the season and that's not forthcoming, so if they can't do that I'm not sure we can go there," Gordon McKie, the SRU's chief executive, said in The Herald.

McKie said he was confident of identifying venues for both the short and long-term for the team.

"We still have a number of options available to us, both short-term and perhaps a couple of seasons beyond, and we're still in discussion with a number of options regarding the longer-term final playing location," he said. Hughenden remains the favourite for next season and council-owned Scotstoun for the longer term, but West of Scotland RFC could provide the solutions to both problems.

West have ambitious plans for a future home just down the road if developers get the go-ahead to build on their current home Burnbrae. The Milngavie ground could be adapted for next season with the erection of temporary seating and McKie admitted it was under close consideration.

"It's a possibility, and if we have to invest we'll invest. A year ago we wouldn't have done that," he noted.

McKie also said he was hopeful Glasgow would announce new signings, including some from overseas, within the next week.

Advertisements for a chief executive who will have a strong commercial and marketing background and will be given the independent authority to run the club as such, have also been published.

This article was posted on 19-Apr-2007, 21:59 by Hugh Barrow.