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Glasgow Warriors’ Scottish fullback Ollie Smith runs with the ball during the European Challenge Cup rugby union final match between Glasgow Warriors (SCO) and Rugby Club Toulonnais (FRA) at the Aviva Stadium, in Dublin, on May 19, 2023. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT \/ AFP) (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT\/AFP via Getty Images) https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/we-got-stung-a-bit-smith-reveals-glasgows-key-focus-for-ospreys\/ <\/p>\n
Ollie Smith has urged Glasgow<\/a> to focus on making a fast start as they bid to clip Ospreys\u2019 wings in Saturday\u2019s United Rugby Championship<\/a> clash in Swansea.<\/p>\n The Welsh side romped to a 24-0 victory at home to Zebre<\/a> last weekend and full-back Smith recalls how they opened up a 15-0 lead on their way to a 32-31 win at Scotstoun in the last meeting between the teams in March.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a difficult match,\u201d said Smith. \u201cTravelling away from home is always difficult in this league. Ospreys<\/a> are playing a good brand of rugby, they had a good win against Zebre last week so it\u2019s going to be a tough game in tough conditions probably.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we\u2019ve seen in the last couple of weeks, especially last week, Ospreys start pretty well. They scored two early tries and it was the same when we played them at Scotstoun last year.<\/p>\n Fixture<\/p>\n United Rugby Championship<\/p>\n Ospreys <\/p>\n Glasgow <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe got stung a bit in the first 20 minutes so there\u2019s a lot of focus on the first 20 minutes from us, coming out the blocks fast and starting the game from there. It comes back to being ready to go from the first whistle and not taking too long to get into the game.\u201d<\/p>\n Warriors head coach Franco Smith<\/a> has made nine changes from the team that started last weekend\u2019s 49-0 demolition of Dragons but Scotland<\/a> forwards Zander Fagerson<\/a>, Jack Dempsey<\/a> and Rory Darge<\/a>, all of whom are battling to return from injury in time for the upcoming autumn internationals, have not been included in the 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Glasgow Warriors’ Scottish fullback Ollie Smith runs with the ball during the European Challenge Cup rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-508483","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-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115393140179185356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508483","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=508483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760759483_330_311.png.webp\"\/)
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