Scarlets fall at the Firhill Arena
Scotland flyhalf Dan Parks kicked fourteen points for the Warriors as they overcame the Scarlets 19-11 and remained unbeaten after two rounds of the new Magners League season.
The Warriors and the Scarlets both enjoyed success in the first round of the new season last weekend but it just wasn’t meant to be for Nigel Davies’ men this time around. Losing out on a bonus-point right at the end, the Scarlets boss will be hugely disappointed that his side missed a great opportunity to claim an away win so early in the season.
Sean Lineen on the other hand will be delighted his team made it two from two despite not playing to their full potential on the night.
Both kickers struggled early on, missing two attempts each before Rob Dewey finally opened the scoring with a try on the half hour mark.
First Dan Parks and then Rhys Priestland, both teams first choice kickers missed two early chances.
Dewey’s try though quickly forced a response from the Scarlets – just three minutes after Glasgow started the scoring Daniel Evans went over for the visitors.
Priestland missed the conversion attempt but, on the stroke of half time, added a penalty to take the game to the interval with the scores at 8-7 in favour of the Welsh region.
Parks and Priestland exchanged second half penalties before, with 62 minutes gone, the Glasgow playmaker slotted a drop goal to put the Warriors ahead.
With player/coach Simon Easterby sent to the sin-bin on 66 minutes, the Warriors seized the initiative, added two more penalties and edging out the victory 19-11 in front of their home crowd.
The Scorers
For Glasgow:
Tries: Dewey
Pens: Parks 3
Cons: Parks
DG: Parks
For Scarlets:
Tries: Evans
Pens: Priestland 2
Yellow Cards: Simon Easterby (Scarlets – 66 min)
The Teams:
Glasgow: 15 Bernardo Stortoni, 14 Rob Dewey, 13 Peter Murchie, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Thom Evans, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Chris Cusiter, 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 John Barclay, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 Alastair Kellock (captain), 4 Tim Barker, 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Jon Welsh
Replacement: 16 Pat MacArthur, 17 Kevin Tkachuk, 18 Dan Turner, 19 Richie Vernon, 20 Mark McMillan, 21 Colin Gregor, 22 Colin Shaw
Scarlets: 15 Daniel Evans, 14 Sean Lamont, 13 Rob Higgitt, 12 Jonathan Davies, 11 Mark Jones (captain), 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Martin Roberts, 8 David Lyons, 7 Richie Pugh, 6 Dafydd Jones, 5 Dominic Day, 4 Lou Reed, 3 Deacon Manu, 2 Ken Owens, 1 Iestyn Thomas
Replacements: 16 Phil John, 17 Emyr Phillips, 18 Vernon Cooper, 19 Simon Easterby, 20 Lee Williams, 21 Dan Newton, 22 Gareth Maule.
