Warriors wary of lethal Scarlets

No one said it would be easy or happen overnight, but Danny Wilson’s plan to make Glasgow Warriors a touch more pragmatic has some way to go, if the opening weekend of the PRO14 is anything to go by.

“It was a good learner for understanding we have made some strides and where we still need to make a few,” he said of the defeat to Connacht, where the Warriors“certainly handed them a couple of soft scores off the back of not managing the game well”.

Scarlets, the visitors in the first postlockdown game at Scotstoun on Sunday are another team who feast on opposition mistakes.

Wilson said: “We certainly can’t feed the Scarlets as we did Connacht at times. If you feed Scarlets in the wrong part of the pitch they have lethal counter-attack players that will hurt you.

“At the same time, I think we showed our attacking intent against Connacht. We don’ t want to lose that flair and way of playing as it is an important way to score points. We scored three outstanding tries, each very different.

“We got ourselves in a position to win a tight away game by scoring 24 points away from home – you’ve got to win those. We have to improve our discipline and game management to win tight games.”

On the positive side, it looks like Huw Jones is the man for the 15 shirt for the rest of the season, as the international centre scored a try, looked dangerous with ball in hand and solid enough in defence.

“Right now, he’s our number one 15, that’s clear,” said Wilson, who hopes to have Zander F ag er son and Tom Gordon back from Covid contact protocols for this weekend.

Sam Johnson may miss out again unless he can complete a full week of training.