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Glasgow resurrect European hopes by beating Exeter in foggy Scotstoun

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Ali Price box kicks in the fog /PA

Glasgow resurrected their Champions Cup campaign and delivered a serious – but not fatal – blow to Exeter’s quarter-final aspirations with a well-deserved 22-7 victory on a foggy night at Scotstoun.

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Visibility was so poor that there was a real danger that the game would not go ahead just an hour before kick-off.

The hosts adapted better to the conditions and after several minutes of pressure they edged their way into a 3-0 lead through a Ross Thompson offside penalty from almost directly in front of the posts.

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While the Warriors coaching team will have been encouraged by the pattern of play throughout the opening quarter, they will also have been mindful that all the possession and territory had not translated into a more commanding advantage on the scoreboard.

With just over half an hour played, Exeter had their first period on the front foot and it took some excellent defensive work from the hosts to keep their try-line unbreached, before Zander Fagerson won a scrum penalty which allowed Thompson to clear the threat.

Jonny Gray was penalised for pulling down at the subsequent line-out, and Thompson kicked for touch again, before George Turner burst from the maul and it took a fine tackle from Tom O’Flaherty to stop the rampaging hooker inches short of the try-line.

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Play was brought back for a previous penalty, giving Warriors another chance to extend their lead in the last play of the first half, but they lost control of possession at the line-out.

Warriors started the second half as they finished the first, with Sione Tuipulotu carrying well on three occasions before a side-entry penalty gave Thompson a chance to edge the hosts further ahead – but his effort rebounded off the left post.

However, the Warriors stand-off did not let that shake his focus and when Exeter gave away another penalty two minutes later for going off their feet, he fired home the three points.

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He was on target again to make it 9-0 after a collapsed Exeter scrum just past the 50-minute mark and then made it 12-0 when another scrum penalty was coughed up by the visitors just before the hour.

Sam Simmonds finally got the away side off the mark with nine minutes remaining when he burrowed over after a relentless period of pressure, with brother Joe kicking the conversion, but Warriors kept their cool and Thompson kicked his fifth successful penalty of the night to ease the home side to more than a converted try ahead.

A last-minute Johnny Matthews try, converted by Duncan Weir, sealed the win.

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JW 58 minutes ago
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Yeah nar, but that’s kinda the thing, I don’t think the old approach was working either!


You might have it right though, leading up, in all rugby/competitions mean, to the last WC it did feel like there had been better discipline/less than the normal amount of cards. Well, at least a certain demographic of teams improved at least, but not so much NZ ones is my point.


I bet you also think going harsher would be the best way to go reducing head contact and the frequency of concussions?


I would hate to have your theory tested as it requires subjective thinking from the officials but..

AI Overview

In Super Rugby Pacific, a red card means the player is sent off for the rest of the match, but with a 20-minute red card, the team can replace the player after 20 minutes of playing with 14 men. If the foul play is deemed deliberate and with a high degree of danger, a full red card is issued, and the player cannot be replaced. A second yellow card also results in a 20-minute red card with a replacement allowed. 

is there to stop that from happening. The whole subjective thing is why we have 20min cards, and I worry that the same leniency that stopped them from red carding a player who ran 30 meters and still didn’t get his head low enough would stop them straight redn them too.


Back to the real topic though, right after that WC we saw those same angles getting red carded all over the show. So do some players actually have control over their actions enough to avoid head collisions (and didn’t gaf after the WC?), or was it pure luck or an imaginary period of good discipline?


So without a crystal ball to know the truth of it I think you’ll find it an immeasurably better product with 20m red cards, there just does not appear to be any appropriate amount of discipline added to the back end, the suspensions (likely controlled by WR), yet.

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