Lome Fa'atau and Kelly Brown will make their debut for Glasow Warriors in Friday's Magners League match with Munster at Firhill.
In addition, Glasgow welcome back another two players from the Rugby World Cup, centre Andrew Henderson and stand-off Dan Parks, both of whom helped take Scotland to the quarter-final stages.

Looking ahead to making his first appearance at The Arena, Lome said: “I’m really looking forward to playing in front of the Glasgow fans for the first time.

“The weather has been pretty cold back home so it hasn’t come as a shock to me yet and settling into the squad has been easy as well. Justin [Va'a] and OP [Opeta Palepoi] have been a great help.”

On Magners League rugby at Firhill, Lome added: “I suppose due to the weather, most people think that Magners League rugby won’t be as expansive and as fast as the Super XIV, but playing at a football ground will hopefully mean that we can play at real pace throughout the entire season.”

Fellow debutant, Kelly, added: “The World Cup was an awesome experience so hopefully I will get the chance to play in some more in the future, however my focus has now fully turned to Glasgow.

“I’m settling in nicely and training is going well. All the boys have made me feel very welcome. I’m looking forward to tomorrow night and starting my Glasgow career on a high.”

Glasgow head coach Sean Lineen concluded: “We’re getting closer to our full strength side.

“We are developing some real competition for places, which is exactly what you need to drive a team forward.

“We are also getting closer to our European campaign, so I am looking for our boys to really front-up against a powerful Munster side.”

Glasgow Warriors

15 Bernardo Stortoni

14 Lome Fa'atau
13 Andrew Henderson
12 Daryl Gibson
11 Thom Evans

10 Dan Parks
9 Chris O'Young

1 Ed Kalman
2 Fergus Thomson
3 Moray Low
4 Andy Newman
5 Alastair Kellock CAPTAIN *
6 Stevie Swindall
7 John Barclay *
8 Kelly Brown *

Substitutes

16 Eric Milligan
17 Michael Collins
18 Dan Turner
19 John Beattie *
20 Sam Pinder
21 Scott Barrow
22 Hefin O'Hare

This article was posted on 25-Oct-2007, 11:27 by Hugh Barrow.