With my Leinster still to play their season opener also on the road, it would be silly of me to gloat too much over this result.
Besides, as you will see from my rant in Episode 2 of the vidcast, it’s hard to pass too much judgement over games like this when teams are missing so many star players. Let’s face it…Irish provinces lost a lot more players to the Lions squad than the Scottish ones…
Still, this match was disappointing for several reasons. First and foremost was the attendance. Home opener and the Warriors, one of only two professional clubs in Scotland, can’t even fill the main grandstand? Whatever the reason, that’s a poor show in my view.
The team, on the other hand, were impressive, particularly when it came to goal-line defence, and they were tested from the very first minute, and did well to keep the visiting Champions scoreless throughout.
For their part, the Munsters were strangely off their game, because surely when your opposition has a kicker of the calibre of Dan Parks the last thing you want to do is concede senseless penalties, but that’s what they did.
The one try was a combined effort between Messrs Ronan and Murphy not to tackle Morrison which afforded him a linebreak which led to Jackson crossing. But overall it was no more than the home side deserved. At least have a dozen times the vistors brought their Liverpool-style kit into the Glasgow 22 and each time they were prevented from touching down.
I think this Leinster fan needs to be gracious and mark this down as a blip.
Roll on 6:30pm tonight.
