GLASGOW Warriors’ double try scoring hero from their opening day win over Pro12 champions Connacht says he is excited about taking to the artificial surface at Scotstoun for the first time.

Tommy Seymour was razor sharp on Saturday as his two first-half tries set Gregor Townsend’s side on the way to victory at the Sportsground, but with another Irish province – Leinster – featuring at the first Scotstoun game of the season, he is keen to keep finding the try-line.

The erection of the goalposts last weekend was the last piece of the jigsaw at Scotstoun, and that firm ground and sure grip underfoot will appeal to Glasgow’s wingers.

Leinster will come to Glasgow buoyed by the addition of former England coach 
Stuart Lancaster to Leo Cullen’s coaching team this week, but Seymour is eyeing a second win on Saturday afternoon as the club unveils its new playing surface.

“It’s fast. I think it’s got a lot of positives in the sense that we’re no longer going to have to be worried about weather playing a factor in terms of cancellations or bogged pitches,” said the 28-year-old Seymour.

“Certainly from my point of view as an outside back, it’s something I relish in the sense that it’s a quick track. There’s going to be quick ball on it and your footing is always going to be assured but there obviously are the sore points in terms of the hardness of the pitch. Literally the sore points!

“The burn effect you’re going to have on the knees and stuff like that is something we’ll adapt to. You can never have a perfect scenario with an artificial surface but with what we crave as a team in terms of how we want to play, it suits us down to the ground and it allows us to keep that style of play consistently throughout the year.”

Getting off to that winning start against Connacht gave the 2015 champions a nice five-point haul to propel them into the new season, but Seymour conceded that victory meant so much more to the squad that any other win.

Two defeats to Connacht in eight days in May meant Warriors’ title defence came to a rather abrupt halt, and the winger says that gutting feeling was a real driving force behind their performance.

“If I said it didn’t then everyone would be able to call you on your lies! It was obviously a huge motivation for us,” said Seymour.“You look at those two games and Connacht deserved them. They won the games, they played better, they were more efficient with it so it’s not to say that they didn’t deserve it but I think in our own camp we probably a bit sad about how we did ourselves justice.

“Losing those two games were hard and it was obviously a disappointing way to finish the season. They were coming out as champions. Packed sell-out crowd. The whole city’s buzzing for them so we knew we were going to have to put in one hell of a performance to do that.

“We used that motivation from last year and obviously the things we practised in pre-season got us over the line.”