RENNIE HOPES FOR A MIRACLE AGAINST SALE

DAVE RENNIE has vowed to throw the kitchen sink at Sale Sharks next week as Glasgow Warriors attempt mission impossible in Manchester.

After yesterday’s dramatic draw at home to Exeter Chiefs in the Heineken Champions

Cup, Glasgow’s European hopes are hanging by a thread.

They needed a bonus-point victory, although the three points they secured yesterday does at least give them half a chance ahead of next Saturday’s final Pool Two clash.

Warriors are reliant on results elsewhere, with a five-point haul against Sale now a necessity to give them any chance whatsoever of progression.

Whilst admitting that his team now require favours from other sides in the battle to finish as one of the best-placed runners-up, Rennie refused to throw in the towel.

‘We’re disappointed because we did enough to get five points,’ he said. ‘We’ll see what happens in the other games and find out what we need to do next week.

‘The chances are slim but Gloucester are one of the other sides in there and they’ve got to play Toulouse away next week. Northampton have to go to Lyon.

‘We might need someone to do us a favour to go through but we’ll throw everything at Sale.’

Rennie was proud of his players, who caused plenty of problems for an Exeter team who sit top of the English Premiership and are cruising through to the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup.

He was, though, rather miffed at some of the decisions that went against his team from French referee Romain Poite.

Warriors had Callum Gibbins and Fraser Brown sent to the sin bin, with Poite also very lenient towards Exeter in the scrum.

On the Gibbins yellow card for a perceived elbow to the head of Jacques Vermeulen, he said: ‘It wasn’t clear to me. It’s a collision which you have all the time.

‘The ruck area was messy. They were allowed to stand up as tacklers and loiter. We’ll have a look and give the ref feedback.’