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<\/p>\nGlasgow entered the play-offs having lost four of their previous five matches in all competitions, including an alarming 33-7 defeat at Benetton.<\/p>\n
But Franco Smith\u2019s side banished any concerns about their form when they romped to a five-try 36-18 victory at home to Stormers in Friday\u2019s quarter-final to set up a semi-final trip to Leinster this Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely think there\u2019s a template there [from Friday] that we try and play to,\u201d said Carolan, former backs coach at Connacht. \u201cI think what we showed was really good ambition, some good accuracy. We scored some cracking tries, even though we didn\u2019t have a massive amount of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think what it did show is when we did get chances, we were pretty ruthless and that\u2019s what you need this time of the season, as you approach the quarter-finals and semi-finals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery opportunity counts and it\u2019s important that you take those chances when they come about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glasgow must find a way to redress the balance against a Leinster side who hammered them 52-0 in the Champions Cup in April before defeating them 13-5 in the final league match last month.<\/p>\n
Carolan is adamant his side have banished any lingering effects from the heavy European defeat in Dublin two months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s history now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve played them since, and I think what we turned up with the last time we played them is a bit more us. And I think what we saw on Friday night against the Stormers was more us again.<\/p>\n
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Glasgow Warriors\u2019 assistant coach Nigel Carolan. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
James Ryan speaking ahead of Leinster v Glasgow Warriors <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re building nicely. I think we\u2019ve definitely got a bit of the mojo back from where we were. I think it was probably the Leicester game [a 43-19 win on April 5] when we last sort of played like that. I think it\u2019s important that we got into this weekend on the back of a good performance last Friday and there\u2019s a lot of confidence we can take from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carolan reported that Scotland forwards Matt Fagerson, Jack Dempsey and Zander Fagerson are all progressing well in their recovery from injuries but unlikely to be ready for Saturday. He is hopeful that centre Huw Jones will be fit to return in Dublin after missing the Stormers game with an Achilles issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuw is on track at the moment to be ready,\u201d said Carolan. \u201cObviously, we pulled him last week for precautionary reasons, but he\u2019s shaping up really well. We\u2019ll just have to see how he progresses through the week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow entered the play-offs having lost four of their previous five matches in all competitions, including an alarming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,30724,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}