{"id":860938,"date":"2026-03-30T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860938\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:43:12","slug":"glasgow-ready-for-old-foes-bulls-but-warned-not-to-cross-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/860938\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow ready for old foes Bulls but warned not to cross the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou look at them just now, they\u2019re on a good run of form,\u201d said Glasgow defence coach <strong>Scott Forrest<\/strong> of the Bulls. \u201cThey\u2019ve won five [of their last six] league games. They\u2019ve been to the final of the URC almost every year. They\u2019re a team that knows how to win knockout games of rugby. There\u2019s potentially a little bit of a rivalry happening there which I think is natural when teams play each other in a final and there\u2019s a lot at stake. We don\u2019t need to stoke the fire much, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know their set-piece is really strong. When they get on the front foot and the forwards start to use that power game, we know that\u2019s where they get success. But they do also want it to become unstructured at times. They\u2019ve got world-class backs as well and I think that\u2019s where they really come into play. The game when we played them here at the start of the season, we had a big focus on having to match them physically, because if you don\u2019t do that, you\u2019re going to struggle. We don\u2019t want the game to get loose. That\u2019s going to be the focus again this week for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forrest reiterated <strong>Nigel Carolan<\/strong>\u2019s comments from last week that the players need to learn where the line is when it comes to being confrontational and physical but not veering into unnecessary confrontations or sh**housing. A repeat of <strong>Adam Hastings<\/strong> ruffling the hair of Leinster\u2019s <strong>Sam Prendergast<\/strong> is a no-no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us internally, we don\u2019t want to see those things happen,\u201d added Forrest. \u201cWe want to be regarded as a team that is competitive at the top level of competitions. But we don\u2019t necessarily want it to boil over. Franco has addressed that within the group, that we don\u2019t really want to be seen like that. We want to be confrontational. We want teams to respect us when they play us, to fear us when they play us. But no one really wants to see things like that in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHair ruffling is definitely out! Listen, the confrontational bit we\u2019ve spoken about. You have to be if you want to win trophies, which is ultimately our aim. But we don\u2019t want to step across the line. When you\u2019re scoring tries, that\u2019s probably not the time where you want to rub it in anyone\u2019s faces. So, yes, we want to be respectful while at the same time showing everyone how tough it is to come to Scotstoun and play rugby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warriors have added Glasgow Hawks scrum-half <strong>Callum Reidy<\/strong> to their list of EPCR registered players and could yet have <strong>Kyle Steyn<\/strong> back sooner than first expected from a leg injury sustained against Ireland at the end of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle is probably not as bad as first thought,\u201d added Forrest, speaking this lunchtime. \u201cHe\u2019ll hopefully be on the pitch this afternoon. \u00a0If that goes well this afternoon, he\u2019ll hopefully be involved across the next two weeks. That\u2019s probably better news than what we were expecting at the end of the Six Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One player who won\u2019t be running out at Scotstoun \u2013 in a Warriors shirt at least \u2013 is <strong>David Kriel, <\/strong>with the South African centre set to choose La Rochelle over Glasgow as his next club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, that one\u2019s dead,\u201d confirmed Forrest. \u201cI think there were some conversations going on. Probably there\u2019s been quite a few conversations, as there always is when you sound out players. Everyone knows we\u2019ve got guys moving on at the end of the season, so we\u2019re always looking at where do we need to strengthen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou look at them just now, they\u2019re on a good run of form,\u201d said Glasgow defence coach Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,8924,2383,10752,85185,918,8979,4884,21286,712,135443,16,15],"class_list":["post-860938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-bulls","tag-champions-cup","tag-david-kriel","tag-divi","tag-glasgow","tag-glasgow-warriors","tag-great-britain","tag-kyle-steyn","tag-scotland","tag-scott-forrest","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116319604397247234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860938","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=860938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}