Fagerson on daddy duty ahead of PR014 final

work, all the extras, coming in day-in dayout, pounding away when you are not seeing that much games.

“But it is all worth it when the boys are doing such an awesome job on the pitch. I just thought, ‘If I do my job and get in a position to play if we get into the final I can be quite chuffed with myself’.

“So it is awesome to be here and I’m proud of the boys for what they did.”

It’ll be Zander’s first time at Celtic Park, not surprisingly as his football affiliation is Peterhead.

“It comes from my grandfather, he was a fisherman up there. I was never built for football, as you can tell, I knew that from a young age,” he explained.

“Any stadium is awesome and playing in front of a crowd that big is an honour every time. There were 10,000 there for the semi-final and the noise was incredible, so you wonder how 30,000 Glasgow fans might be.”

Fagerson said: “I’ve never been to Celtic Park – I was a Peterhead fan growing up.

“But I’ve heard it is awesome. A few of the boys have been before and say it’s great. They’ve been talking about the atmosphere it can produce and I hear there’s a big crowd expected.

“It’s been building all season for us. Saturday is a massive opportunity to do something special in our own city so we can’t wait.

“It’s been a massive squad effort. There’s been more than 50 boys who have played for Glasgow this season so that speaks to the great academy structure and the depth in every position that we’ve got.”

Fagerson knows the Leinster ( and Ireland) front row well, and smiled at the recent memory of shoving Cian Healy, Sean Cronin and Tadhg Furlong off the first scrum when the three were brought on in the league game at the RDS last month.

“Those are two British and Irish props and Cronin is a good dynamic player as well,” he said.

Picture: SNS Group. Glasgow Warriors’ Zander Fagerson, second left, with teammates Oli Pebble, Callum Gibbins and Kyle Steyn after the PRO14 semi-final win over Ulster at Scotstoun last week.