It was about the only time the Frenchman put a foot wrong during a man-of-the-match performance. Warriors’ survival during this period was aided when visiting stand-off Pierre Popelin – appearing to erroneously think that his side was playing an advantage – sent a wasteful cross-kick straight into touch. He didn’t get the benefit of the doubt, but La Rochelle kept their foot on the gas and Warriors were reduced to 14 men when captain Fraser Brown was shown yellow for dropping a maul a few yards from his own line. The hosts were on the back foot from the very beginning and visiting loose-head Danny Priso thought he’d managed to get the ball down over the line after several minutes of relentless pressure. “What we can’t afford to do, which we have done in the last two weeks, is make two errors on the bounce.” This side will score, that’s why they are where they are, and reached the European Cup Final last year. “It was a good side we were playing against – a big, physical side – and perhaps some of the errors you get away with in other games you won’t get away with here.
“We wanted it to be in our own hands, we genuinely felt we could win today at home where we have a really good record, but it wasn’t to be. “We still have a lifeline in this competition,” he added.
” We gave them too many soft points, we scored 30 points and lost at home and that’s disappointing. “When you play the heavyweights of Europe you cannot give them those sorts of error opportunities, and that’s what happened tonight,” reflected Warriors head coach Danny Wilson. Premiership: late try seals bonus point for Edinburgh Accies versus Selkirk Premiership: Currie Chieftains pile misery on stricken Aberdeen Grammar Premiership: Hawick come out on top in fierce Border tussle versus Jed-Forest Premiership: GHA blow Hawks away in Glasgow derby Premiership: Marr prevail at Musselburgh in match scarred by cards The frustrating thing from a Warriors point of view is that despite having so little of this game, they were still in a strong position to win the match after Josh McKay‘s try early in the second half, but then handed over the initiative with some really weak defending and sloppy discipline which was in stark contrast with the resilience shown during most of the first 40 minutes. Glasgow will progress to the knock-out phase of the tournament if both Montpellier (who were humiliated 89-7 by Leinster last weekend) fail to claim a single match point from their home encounter with Exeter Chiefs at 5.30pm on Sunday and Ospreys (pointless in the tournament so far) fail to secure a bonus point win with a 16-point margin away to Sale Sharks at 1pm. Two late tries meant the final score-line flattered the hosts. THEY might still make it to the last 16 of this season’s Champions Cup but this one-sided defeat, hot on the heels of last weekend’s pummelling at Sandy Park, reinforced that Glasgow Warriors are currently a long way off being serious players at Europe’s top table.
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