IT won’t make me popular in rugby circles in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but I simply can’t see either of our professional sides winning their URC quarter-final play-off matches this weekend, and I am not going to bother talking up their chances.
Glasgow Warriors will face the very wounded, and thus very dangerous, Leinster and though they did not prevail against La Rochelle in the Champions Cup final, the Irish team were a class above anything that Glasgow has produced this season. I expect the scoreline to be similar to the clash at Scotstoun early in the season, when Leinster won comfortably by 31-15. The main lesson from that match for the Warriors is not to give Leinster early chances, because they’ll take them.
