Glasgow Warriors

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Glasgow Warriors
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Full name Glasgow Warriors
Founded amateur 1872; 152 years ago (1872)
professional 1996; 28 years ago (1996)[1]
Location Glasgow, Scotland
Ground(s) Scotstoun Stadium (Capacity: 10,000[2] using additional temporary seating)
Chairman Charles Shaw
Coach(es) Gregor Townsend
Captain(s) Jonny Gray
Most caps Graeme Morrison (176)
Top scorer Dan Parks (1105)
Most tries DTH van der Merwe (31)
League(s) Guinness Pro12
2014–15 1st (Champions)
Team kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.glasgowwarriors.org
Rugby current event.svg Current season

Glasgow Warriors are one of the two professional rugby teams from Scotland. The team plays in the Pro12 and the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments along with its oldest rivals, Edinburgh Rugby. The Glasgow Warriors team plays its home games at Scotstoun Stadium.[3][4] In May 2015 they won the Pro12 title and became the first Scottish team to win a major trophy in rugby union's professional era.[5]

History

Glasgow Warriors are a continuation of the amateur Glasgow District side founded in 1872.

Reshaped as a professional club in 1996, Glasgow Warriors were originally known as Glasgow Rugby before rebranding as Glasgow Caledonians in 1998 by a merger with the Caledonian Reds. They dropped the Caledonians to become Glasgow Rugby in 2002 again and finally rebranded as the Glasgow Warriors in 2005.

Originally based at Hughenden till 2007, the Warriors moved to Firhill in 2007–2008 season (with a brief sojourn there also in 2005–06.) In the summer of 2012 Glasgow Warriors moved from Firhill to Scotstoun, which had previously been the club's training base.[6]

District Sides

Scotland had four District Sides:- North and Midlands; South; Glasgow and Edinburgh. Glasgow and Edinburgh were formed in 1872 and played the world's first ever inter-district match in that year.[7] The professional sides Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby are a continuation of these district sides and to mark the world's oldest derby they play for the 1872 Cup every year (since season 2007–08; when the collapse of the Border Reivers left Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby as Scotland's only two professional teams).

The district sides capped the best amateur players from their area's club sides to play inter-district matches and matches against touring sides. Unlike the Scottish clubs (and Ireland's provincial sides), the Scottish district sides had no settled home and were not members of their Rugby Union.[7] This meant when Scottish rugby embraced professionalism it was not clear if a model based on districts or clubs would be used.

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Main article: Glasgow District (rugby union)

Professional model: Club or District

It was not clear which route professionalism would go in Scotland. This created a turbulent start for professionalism in Scotland and left Scotland far behind fast-embracing Ireland in the set up of its professional structure. The first season of the Heineken Cup in 1995–96 was run without any Scottish teams in European competition.

An EGM was held by the SRU for its member clubs to debate the matter and try and settle the issue on the 8th February 1996. The SRU management was in favour of districts and its Vice-President Fred McLeod and Jim Telfer argued for the proposal. In favour of the clubs to be represented in Europe were former Scotland internationalists Gavin Hastings and Keith Robertson. Critically a speech from the floor from Brian Simmers of Glasgow Academicals - arguing that Hastings and Robertson didn't have the best interests of Scottish rugby at heart and they were arguing only for their own clubs - swung the debate and the District model won by 178 to 24.[7]

The four amateur district teams Glasgow, Edinburgh, South of Scotland and North and Midlands were to become the professional sides Glasgow Warriors, Edinburgh Rugby, Border Reivers and the Caledonia Reds.

Formation of Glasgow Warriors

Glasgow Rugby was created in 1996 to compete in the Heineken Cup, because the Scottish Rugby Union did not think that Scottish club sides would be able to compete against the best teams from France and England.[8] Glasgow, however, did not compete in the Heineken Cup until the 1997–98 season.

Glasgow and the other 3 Scottish districts competed in the Scottish Inter-District Championship to determine their European Qualifying; the leagues positions determining whether they entered the Heineken Cup or the Challenge Cup.

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Main article: Scottish Inter-District Championship

Merger with Caledonia Reds

Because of the SRU's high debt, partly as a result of the redevelopment of Murrayfield there was a recognised need for further reorganisation. After two seasons, Glasgow merged with the Caledonia Reds to form a team that would be known as Glasgow Caledonians.[9]

The forced merger came just after Glasgow had shown some signs of progress by qualifying for the Heineken Cup quarter-final play-offs, in which they suffered their heaviest defeat (90–19) to Leicester Tigers.[10] The intention was that the combined strength of the new teams would build on such modest progress and initially some very successful results were achieved, including a 1999 win against Leicester (30–17), but overall the team lacked consistency.

Celtic League formation

Concerns about attendances at games became a concern again at the time of the 1999 World Cup, by which time a Welsh-Scottish League had been announced. In essence, this would be the Welsh Premier Division augmented by the two Scottish sides.[11]

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Main article: Welsh-Scottish League

The Celtic League began in the autumn of 2001 with the addition of the four Irish provincial teams; Glasgow reached the semi-finals of the inaugural competition, but struggled thereafter.

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Main article: Pro12

The 'Caledonian' label was dropped at the start of the 2002–03 season, with the team name becoming once again Glasgow Rugby.[12]

In 2004–05 Glasgow had been fifth, the best placing of the three Scottish teams that existed at that time.[13]

Starting with the 2005–06 season, the team was again rebranded, this time as the Glasgow Warriors.[8]

Pro12

The Celtic League was rebranded as the Pro12 league in season 2011–12. This was to better reflect the entry of the Italian sides into the Celtic League.

The Pro12 league format has a top four play-off system to decide the champions.

Since the Pro12 started in season 2011–12, Glasgow Warriors are the only team that have made the play-offs in every year.

Records and Achievements

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Main article: Glasgow District (rugby union)

Honours

  • Pro12
    • Winners: 1 (2015)
    • Runners-up: 1 (2014)
  • 1872 Cup (founded 2007-08)
    • Winners: 6 (2007-8, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14)
  • Melrose 7s
    • Winners: 2 (2014, 2015)

Season standings

Competing as Glasgow Warriors unless stated.
Competing as ᵜ Glasgow Rugby.
Competing as ᵝ Glasgow Caledonian Reds.

League competitions

Scottish Inter-District Championship Welsh-Scottish League Celtic League Pro 12
Season Pos Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts Notes
1996–97 ᵜ 2nd 3 2 0 1 63 51 +12 - 4
1997–98 ᵜ 2nd 3 2 0 1 66 29 +37 - 4 (second on tries scored)
1998–99 ᵝ 2nd 3 1 0 2 32 97 -65 - 2 (Edinburgh won Tri-series 2-1)
1999–2000 ᵝ 10th 22 8 1 13 488 621 -133 - 25
2000–01 ᵝ 7th 22 12 0 10 645 608 +37 - 36
2001–02 ᵝ 8th 20 8 1 11 475 527 -52 - 25
2001–02 ᵝ 3rd in Pool A 7 4 1 2 204 172 +32 - 13 (lost semi-final to Leinster)
2002–03 ᵜ 3rd 8 2 1 5 144 210 -66 1 11
2002–03 ᵜ 2nd in Pool B 7 5 0 2 216 166 +50 3 23 (lost quarter-final to Ulster)
2003–04 ᵜ 11th 22 6 1 15 442 614 -172 6 32
2004–05 ᵜ 6th 20 8 1 11 465 466 -1 11 45
2005–06 11th 22 5 0 15 371 439 -68 9 37 (All deemed + 2 games: 8 pts)
2006–07 7th 20 11 0 9 434 419 +15 5 49
2007–08 5th 18 10 1 7 340 349 -9 4 46
2008–09 7th 18 7 0 11 349 375 -26 9 37
2009–10 3rd 18 11 2 5 390 321 +69 3 51 (lost semi-final to Ospreys)
2010–11 11th 22 6 1 15 401 543 -142 7 33
2011–12 4th 22 13 4 5 445 321 +124 5 65 (lost semi-final to Leinster)
2012–13 3rd 22 16 0 6 541 324 +217 12 76 (lost semi-final to Leinster)
2013–14 2nd 22 18 0 4 484 309 +175 7 79 (lost final to Leinster)
2014–15 1st 22 16 1 5 540 360 +180 9 75 (defeated Munster in final)
2015–16 6th 8 5 0 3 190 164 +26 6 26

European competitions

European Challenge Cup Heineken Cup / European Champions Cup
Season Pos Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts Notes
1996–97 ᵜ 5th in Pool A 5 1 0 4 113 202 -89 - 2
1997–98 ᵜ 2nd in Pool 2 6 3 0 3 132 167 -35 - 6 (lost Qtr-Final play-off to Leicester Tigers)
1998–99 ᵝ 4th in Pool 4 6 2 0 4 121 187 -66 - 4
1999–2000 ᵝ 3rd in Pool 1 6 2 0 4 130 179 -49 - 4
2000–01 ᵝ 4th in Pool 6 6 1 0 5 137 227 -90 - 2
2001–02 ᵝ 3rd in Pool 5 6 2 1 3 126 198 -72 - 5
2002–03 ᵜ 3rd in Pool 3 6 2 0 4 86 185 -99 - 4
2003–04 ᵜ 2nd round 4 3 0 1 107 66 +41 - - (lost to Saracens on aggregate)
2004–05 ᵜ 4th in Pool 3 6 0 0 6 107 186 -79 2 2
2005–06 4th in Pool 5 6 1 0 5 131 190 -59 2 6
2006–07 2nd in Pool 2 6 4 1 1 204 72 +132 4 22 (lost to Saracens in Qtr-Final)
2007–08 3rd in Pool 4 6 3 0 3 130 127 +3 4 16
2008–09 3rd in Pool 5 6 2 0 4 134 150 -16 4 12
2009–10 3rd in Pool 2 6 2 0 4 120 140 -20 1 9
2010–11 3rd In Pool 6 6 3 0 3 116 141 -25 0 12
2011–12 2nd in Pool 3 6 2 1 3 131 190 -59 2 12
2012–13 4th in Pool 4 6 1 0 5 70 105 -35 2 6
2013–14 4th in Pool 2 6 2 0 4 98 130 -32 3 11
2014–15 3rd in Pool 4 6 3 0 3 108 84 +24 3 15
2015–16 3rd in Pool 3 3 2 0 1 67 38 +29 1 9

Finals Results

Pro12

Date Winners Score Runners-up Venue Spectators
31 May 2014 Leinster Rugby 34–12 Glasgow Warriors RDS Arena, Dublin 19,200
30 May 2015 Glasgow Warriors 31–13 Munster Rugby Kingspan Stadium, Belfast 17,057

Partial list of games played against international opposition

For international games in amateur era see: Glasgow District (rugby union)
Competing as Glasgow Warriors unless stated. Scores and results list Glasgow Warrior's points tally first.
Competing as ᵜ Glasgow Rugby. Competing as ᵝ Glasgow Caledonian Reds.

Year Date Opponent Venue Result Score Tour
1998 10 November  South Africa Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Loss ᵝ 9–62 1998 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland
1998 18 November Māori people Māori All Blacks McDiarmid Park, Perth Loss ᵝ 15–53 Preview Report
1998 24 November  Fiji Firhill Stadium, Glasgow Win ᵝ 41–22 Preview Report
1999 12 August Uruguay Uruguay A Fletcher's Fields, Markham, Ontario Win ᵝ 68–8 Report
2015 29 August  Canada Graves-Oakley Memorial Park, Halifax [14] Loss 12–19 2015 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches

Current standings

Pro12

2015–16 Pro12 watch · edit · discuss
Team Played Won Drawn Lost Points For Points Against Points Diff Tries For Tries Against Try Bonus Losing Bonus Points
1 Ireland Leinster (RU) 22 16 0 6 458 290 +168 51 27 6 3 73
2 Ireland Connacht (CH) 22 15 0 7 507 406 +101 60 46 8 5 73
3 Scotland Glasgow Warriors (SF) 22 14 1 7 557 380 +177 68 37 8 6 72
4 Ireland Ulster (SF) 22 14 0 8 488 307 +181 61 29 8 5 69
5 Wales Scarlets 22 14 0 8 477 458 +19 45 54 2 5 63
6 Ireland Munster 22 13 0 9 459 417 +42 56 36 6 5 63
7 Wales Cardiff Blues 22 11 0 11 542 461 +81 62 53 5 7 56
8 Wales Ospreys 22 11 1 10 490 455 +35 55 49 6 3 55
9 Scotland Edinburgh 22 11 0 11 405 366 +39 41 36 2 8 54
10 Wales Newport Gwent Dragons 22 4 0 18 353 492 −139 33 57 0 10 26
11 Italy Zebre 22 5 0 17 308 718 −410 35 99 3 1 24
12 Italy Benetton Treviso 22 3 0 19 320 614 −294 35 79 0 8 20
If teams are level at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[15]
  1. number of matches won;
  2. the difference between points for and points against;
  3. the number of tries scored;
  4. the most points scored;
  5. the difference between tries for and tries against;
  6. the fewest number of red cards received;
  7. the fewest number of yellow cards received.

Green background (rows 1 to 4) were play-off places, and earned places in the 2016–17 European Rugby Champions Cup.
Blue background indicates teams outside the play-off places that earned places in the European Rugby Champions Cup.
To facilitate the 2015 Rugby World Cup, there were no play-offs for the 2016–17 European Rugby Champions Cup; the 20th place went to the winner of the 2015–16 European Rugby Challenge Cup if not already qualified. Because Challenge Cup winner Montpellier qualified via the Top 14, its place passed to the top team from that league not already qualified.
Plain background indicates teams that earned a place in the 2016–17 European Rugby Challenge Cup.

European Champions Cup

Team
P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
France Racing 92 (3) 6 4 1 1 174 70 +104 23 6 4 0 22
England Northampton Saints (8) 6 4 1 1 94 93 +1 12 9 1 0 19
Scotland Glasgow Warriors 6 3 0 3 114 96 +18 10 11 1 1 14
Wales Scarlets 6 0 0 6 59 182 –123 7 25 0 2 2

Coaches & Management

Coaches

Position Name Nationality
Head Coach Gregor Townsend  Scotland
Assistant Coach Matt Taylor  Scotland
Assistant Coach Kenny Murray  Scotland
Assistant Coach Dan McFarland  England
Elite Development Coach Iain Monaghan  Scotland

Management

Position Name Nationality
Chairman Charles Shaw  Scotland
Managing Director Nathan Bombrys  USA
Advisory Board Member Walter Malcolm  Scotland
Advisory Board Member Paul Taylor  Scotland
Advisory Board Member Jim Preston  Scotland
Advisory Board Member Douglas McCrea  Scotland
Advisory Board Member Alan Lees  Scotland
Scottish Rugby:
Director of Commercial Operations,
Communications and Public Affairs		 Dominic McKay  Scotland

Current squad

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For player movements leading up to the 2016–17 season, see List of 2016–17 Pro12 transfers § Glasgow Warriors.
  • Internationally capped players in bold.
  • Players qualified to play for Scotland on residency or dual nationality. *

Senior squad

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player Position Union
Fraser Brown Hooker Scotland Scotland
Kevin Bryce Hooker Scotland Scotland
Pat MacArthur Hooker Scotland Scotland
Shalva Mamukashvili Hooker Georgia (country) Georgia
Fergus Scott Hooker Scotland Scotland
Alex Allan Prop Scotland Scotland
Michael Cusack Prop Scotland Scotland
Zander Fagerson Prop Scotland Scotland
Steven Findlay Prop Scotland Scotland
Ryan Grant Prop Scotland Scotland
Sila Puafisi Prop Tonga Tonga
D'Arcy Rae Prop Scotland Scotland
Gordon Reid Prop Scotland Scotland
Javan Sebastian* Prop Wales Wales
Jerry Yanuyanutawa Prop Fiji Fiji
Jonny Gray Lock Scotland Scotland
Kieran Low (loan out) Lock Scotland Scotland
Leone Nakarawa Lock Fiji Fiji
Greg Peterson Lock United States United States
Tim Swinson Lock Scotland Scotland
Hugh Blake Flanker Scotland Scotland
Will Bordill Flanker Scotland Scotland
James Eddie Flanker Scotland Scotland
Simone Favaro Flanker Italy Italy
Chris Fusaro Flanker Scotland Scotland
Rob Harley Flanker Scotland Scotland
Jason Hill Flanker Scotland Scotland
Tyrone Holmes Flanker Scotland Scotland
Adam Ashe Number 8 Scotland Scotland
Josh Strauss Number 8 Scotland Scotland
Ryan Wilson Number 8 Scotland Scotland
Player Position Union
Mike Blair Scrum-half Scotland Scotland
Grayson Hart Scrum-half Scotland Scotland
Ali Price Scrum-half Scotland Scotland
Henry Pyrgos Scrum-half Scotland Scotland
Gregor Hunter Fly-half Scotland Scotland
Finn Russell Fly-half Scotland Scotland
Duncan Weir Fly-half Scotland Scotland
Mark Bennett Centre Scotland Scotland
Alex Dunbar Centre Scotland Scotland
Peter Horne Centre Scotland Scotland
Fraser Lyle Centre Scotland Scotland
Sam Johnson Centre Australia Australia
Richie Vernon Centre Scotland Scotland
Junior Bulumakau* Wing Fiji Fiji
Rory Hughes (loan out) Wing Scotland Scotland
Lee Jones Wing Scotland Scotland
Sean Lamont Wing Scotland Scotland
Taqele Naiyaravoro Wing Australia Australia
Tommy Seymour Wing Scotland Scotland
Glenn Bryce Fullback Scotland Scotland
Stuart Hogg Fullback Scotland Scotland
Peter Murchie Fullback Scotland Scotland

Notable former coaches & management

Former Head coaches

Coach Period(s)
Scotland Sean Lineen 03/2006 – 06/2012
Scotland Hugh Campbell 04/2003 – 03/2006
New Zealand Kiwi Searancke 06/2002 – 04/2003
Scotland Richie Dixon 01/1999 – 06/2002
New Zealand Keith Robertson 11/1997 – 01/1999
New Zealand Kevin Greene 1996 – 11/1997

Former Assistant Coaches

Assistant Coach Period(s)
Scotland Shade Munro 04/2003 – 06/2015
New Zealand Gary Mercer 06/2005 – 06/2012
Scotland Sean Lineen 04/2003 – 03/2006
Australia Steve Anderson 06/2002 – 04/2003
Scotland Rob Moffat 01/1999 – 06/2002
New Zealand Gordon Macpherson 1996 – 04/2003

Former Managing Director / Chief Executive Officers

Managing Director / CEO Period(s)
Scotland Kenny Baillie 10/2009 – 09/2011
Scotland Ian Riddoch 07/2007 – 07/2009
Scotland David Jordan 07/1997 – 01/2005

Notable former players

Former Club Captains

Club Captain Period(s)
Scotland Al Kellock 2006 – 2015
Scotland Jon Petrie 2004 – 2006
Scotland Cameron Mather 2003 – 2004
Scotland Andy Nicol 1999 – 2003
Scotland Gordon Bulloch 1996 – 1999

The Centurions

Former players who have reached the 100 caps mark for Glasgow Warriors [16]

  • Players not given a full senior international rugby union cap by their country under World Rugby rules. *

British and Irish Lions from Glasgow Warriors

The following former Glasgow players, in addition to representing Scotland, have also represented the British and Irish Lions.

Scotland

The following (not previously listed above) former Glasgow players have represented Scotland at full international level.

Notable non-Scottish players

The following is a list of notable non-Scottish (not previously listed above) international representative former Glasgow players:

Argentina

Australia

Canada

Cook Islands

Fiji

Ireland

New Zealand

Samoa

Tonga

USA

Zimbabwe

Notable also outside of rugby

The following is a list of notable (not previously listed above) former Glasgow players who have achieved notability in fields outwith rugby:

Personnel honours and records

Celtic League Team of the Year

Pro12 Team of the Year

References

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