IF Danny Wilson’s appointment was a sticking plaster solution to a problem Glasgow Warriors had filling their head coach vacancy in the summer of 2020, then that arrangement reached an appropriate conclusion yesterday afternoon with the quick rip-away approach being adopted so as to make the process as painless as possible.
The Englishman was “stood down” just two days after his team had slumped to a humiliating 76-14 defeat against Leinster in Dublin, meaning ejection from the United Rugby Championship at the first play-off stage, thus bringing the curtain down on a season which had started positively enough with the club situated in the top four of the URC table through to mid-April before things unravelled dramatically, with the Scotstoun men plummeting to eighth in the league and dropping out of the Challenge Cup during a five-match losing streak.
