RENNIE RUES LACK OF PATIENCE

DAVID RENNIE accused his Glasgow team of going for the ‘miracle play’ against Saracens. The Warriors coach lamented his side’s lack of composure and said: ‘We needed to be far more clinical and patient when we were attacking. ‘You can go seven, eight or nine phases, keep applying pressure, but at times we’ve gone for the miracle play. ‘They had to defend their line for big chunks of the second half but we needed to turn our pressure into points. I felt we should have taken something from the match. On top of that we gave Saracens a pretty soft ten points early on but from then on we defended well.’ Rennie defended the decisionmaking of his co-captains Ryan Wilson and Callum Gibbins, who were more inclined to kick to the corner from penalties and chase tries rather than keep the scoreboard ticking over by kicking between the posts. ‘There was nine minutes left, so the decision was if we scored it was a chance to win it, so we didn’t kick for goal,’ said Rennie. ‘We had two or three penalties before half-time that we could have gone for the posts too, but they’d been penalised a few times, and if we kept applying pressure maybe we get rewarded with a yellow card for them. I’ve got no issue with the decision-making there.’ Losing at home in their European opener is a big blow to Glasgow’s qualification hopes. They now have to beat Cardiff Blues, who defeated Lyon in France, in the Welsh capital next Sunday to have any chance of qualification. But Rennie said: ‘You know Saracens are going to be there in the end and Cardiff had a good win away in Lyon. It’ll be tough next week but a win and we’ll be back in the race.’