Tommy Seymour says streetwise Warriors ready for PRO12 final glory
Since the introduction of the PRO12 play-offs in season 2009-10, the Warriors have been losing semi-finalists three times and were then beaten in last year's final.
Since the introduction of the PRO12 play-offs in season 2009-10, the Warriors have been losing semi-finalists three times and were then beaten in last year's final.
The 33-year-old talisman has announced his retirement after nine years as captain of the team.
The Warriors were beaten 20-15 by Bath at the Recreation Ground to finish third in Pool 4 behind the English side and Toulouse. Bath now progress to the knockout stages as group winners.
The Warriors moved to the top of Pool 4 in the European Champions Cup with their stunning 15-13 victory in the Altrad Stadium and now face a December double-header against four-times European champions Toulouse.
The Warriors came out on top, 37-34, but they fell away towards the finish, allowing their capital rivals to score two tries in the last three minutes.
It was the Scots' heaviest margin of defeat in the tournament for seven years and it came at the start of a week in which the team will have only a six-day turnaround period before they take on England at Murrayfield next Saturday for the Calcuttta Cup
I refer, of course, to the starring role the Dales played in the classic 1980s TV series All Creatures Great and Small, based on James Herriot's tales of life as a young vet in the area. One of the most-watched programmes of its time, All Creatures ignited a tourism revolution, turning a previously unsung corner of England into a popular destination.
Following persistent heavy rain, the Warriors' 1872 Cup match against Edinburgh was called off less than an hour before the official 6.05 pm start time yesterday - and only an hour after the club's Twitter feed had suggested that it would go ahead.
After turning round 34-0 down, Van der Merwe's efforts, plus a try apiece by Niko Matawalu and Jonny Gray, helped Glasgow salvage one of the most improbable try bonus points in Heineken Cup history, but there is only so much delight you can feel when you end up on the wrong end of a 51-28 scoreline.
The Warriors trailed 34-0 at half-time against the reigning champions yesterday, but stormed back to grab their potentially precious point in a 51-28 defeat with two tries by DTH Van der Merwe, one by Niko Matawalu and one by Jonny Gray.
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