{"id":419637,"date":"2025-09-12T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:18:15","slug":"glasgow-warriors-40-31-northampton-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419637\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Warriors 40\u201331 Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Famous Grouse Pre-Season Friendly<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Scotstoun Stadium \u2022 Friday 12 September 2025 \u2022 Kick-off 7.30pm\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights and Key Moments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Glasgow Warriors came out on top with a\u00a0<strong>40-31<\/strong>\u00a0win over Northampton Saints in a free-scoring affair at Scotstoun.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The visitors opened the scoring early, with\u00a0<strong>Callum Chick<\/strong>\u00a0touching down for Northampton. Anthony Belleau converted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Glasgow responded through Dan Lancaster, who scored after a strong run by Fergus Watson. Lancaster missed the conversion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Tom Pearson then scored for Saints, with Belleau\u2019s kick successful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Glasgow answered in kind: a rolling maul saw\u00a0<strong>Gregor Hiddleston<\/strong>\u00a0power over the line. Lancaster converted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Just before half-time, George Hendy went over for Northampton, but the conversion went wide; Glasgow still led at the break.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In the second half, the teams traded tries. Glasgow\u2019s Johnny Matthews crashed over from a maul, Lancaster adding the extras.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Urwin created space for Josh McKay to score near the end, Urwin then converting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Northampton had their moments too, including exploiting Glasgow\u2019s discipline lapses\u2014at one point a yellow card for Saints gave the hosts a platform to press.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Standout Performers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Gregor Hiddleston<\/strong>\u00a0made a strong impact, scoring tries and exerting physicality in the forwards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Lancaster<\/strong>\u00a0contributed well with his try and place-kicking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>From Saints,\u00a0<strong>Tom Pearson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>George Hendy<\/strong>\u00a0were bright in attack, both managing to cross the line.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What This Means Going Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The match gave Glasgow valuable opportunities to integrate senior players (like Jack Dempsey returning) and test combinations in real game conditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For Northampton, despite the loss, there were positives in attack and in how they repeatedly put pressure on Glasgow\u2019s defence. Discipline will be one area to clean up ahead of competitive fixtures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Famous Grouse Pre-Season Friendly\u00a0\u2022 Scotstoun Stadium \u2022 Friday 12 September 2025 \u2022 Kick-off 7.30pm\u00a0\u00a0 Highlights and Key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,1123,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115193885781876096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419637","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=419637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}