The Warriors are sending a strong squad to this weekend’s Melrose Sevens.
James Eddie, Lee Jones, Mark Bennett, Finlay Gillies and Scott Wight will all be involved after representing Scotland 7s in Hong Kong last month.
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The squad will be captained by Scott Wight, who was born in Melrose and previously won the tournament with his hometown club in 2011.
Scott said: “The Melrose 7s is a special event and I’m excited about returning to the Greenyards as captain of the Warriors.
“The squad have trained well this week and we’re all looking forward to the tournament getting underway tomorrow.”
Every player selected for Glasgow has previously taken part in the IRB Sevens World Series, with Carlin Isles and Nikola Matawalu both included in the 10-man squad that will be coached by Kenny Murray.
After appearing for Ayr in Hawick last month, Carlin will be returning to the Borders to represent the Warriors for the first time. He has played in 15 tournaments for USA 7s, but this will be his first appearance in Melrose.
Niko has played in five tournaments for Fiji 7s and has made 41 appearances for the Warriors to date. Like Carlin, this will be the first time he’s played at the Melrose 7s.
Another American named in a Glasgow squad with sevens experience is Folau Niua, who has recently returned to Scotland after helping USA qualify for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Rory Hughes and Fraser Brown are also included. Rory made his debut for Glasgow earlier this season against Connacht and Brown has made 13 appearances for the club.
Kenny Murray said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the club and it’s a real honour to be invited to play at this year’s Melrose 7s.
“We have named a strong squad and we’re looking forward to playing in front of more than 10,000 supporters at the Greenyards.
“Melrose is renowned for being at the core of rugby 7s, so it’s a real privilege to coach the Glasgow Warriors team at this year’s tournament.”
Glasgow Warriors are also in action against Munster in the RaboDirect PRO12 tomorrow night in Limerick.
Glasgow Warriors squad to take part in the Melrose Sevens:
1 James Eddie 2 Finlay Gillies 3 Fraser Brown 4 Lee Jones 5 Scott Wight 6 Mark Bennett 7 Carlin Isles 8 Folau Niua 9 Nikola Matawalu 10 Rory Hughes
Glasgow Warriors also have a crunch PRO12 game this weekend away to Munster, they are 4th and Munster 2nd.
Pro12: Ospreys also chasing play off sport are at home to top team Leinster tonight. Half time- Ospreys 13/10 Leinster, come on Leinster!
PRO12: Third place Ulster are at home against Connacht, Half time – Ulster 30/5 Connacht, Ulster already have bonus point for scoring 4 tries!
PRO12: Edinburgh hosting Cardiff Blues tonight, latest score: Edinburgh 10/3 Cardiff Blues just under 20 min into the match
PRO12: latest Ospreys 16/10 Leinster
PRO12: Latest Ulster 37/5 Connacht, another converted try around 43rd min
PRO12: Latest Edinburgh 10/10 Cardiff Blues (still in the first half)
PRO12: latest Ospreys 19/10 Leinster – 51st minute Dan Biggar penalty, come on Leinster
PRO12: latest Ospreys 19/13 Leinster
PRO12: latest Ospreys 19/16 Leinster, 60th minute another penalty by Jimmy Gopperth
PRO12: latest Ulster 44/5 Connacht , yellow card 58th minute to Connacht’s Michael Swift
PRO12: latest Ospreys 19/19 Leinster
PRO12: latest Ospreys 21/19 Leinster can’t keep up, 71st min drop goal by Dan Biggar
PRO12 : latest Ulster 58/12 Connacht , a converted try now by Craig Gilroy 68th minute to make it try number 8 so far for Ulster tonight, hat trick of tries for Andrew Trimble
PRO12: latest Edinburgh 10/24 Cardiff Blues converted try 42nd min for Cardiff, was 10/17 at half time
Good to see Tim Visser is on the bench for Edinburgh tonight after long injury lay off, they have really missed him.
PRO12: latest Ospreys 25/19 Leinster 77th min penalty by Dan Biggar
PRO12: latest Edinburgh 17/24 Cardiff Blues 47th min try by Tom Brown for Edinburgh, converted by Cuthbert
PRO12: Result – Ospreys 25/19 Leinster – well done Ospreys with the win, this must have been the hardest of their remaining fixtures so this will put a lot more pressure on Glasgow for qualification for the semi final
PRO12: Result – Ulster 58/12 Connacht – great win for Ulster who came into the match minus suspended Jaryd and numerous injured players (most notably Ruan Pienaar) following their narrow defeat in the Heineken Cup against Saracens last weekend.
PRO12: latest Edinburgh 17/29 Cardiff Blues 75th min unconverted try by Dafydd Hewitt for Cardiff
PRO12 – 78th min Cardiff’s Bradley Davies gets a yellow card
PRO12: Result – Edinburgh 22/29 Cardiff Blues, Cornell du Preez scored an unconverted try in 80th min for Edinburgh. Good win for Cardiff who got the bonus point as they scored 4 tries.
That’s it for the PRO12 tonight
Glasgow Warriors won the Melrose 7s earlier today, they beat Edinburgh Academicals on the final. Final score – Glasgow Warriors 40/14 Edinburgh Academicals. Carlin Isles who had shown his pace by scoring a long distance try in the semi final score Glasgow’s last try with a scorching break down the left side of the field beating the defender on the outside with his sheer pace!
PRO12: Glasgow Warriors had a fantastic Saturday after their 7s team won at Melrose the 15 a side team beat Munster in Ireland to keep their push for a semi final place well and truly alive.
Final score : Munster 5/22 Glasgow Warriors. No points were scored in the 2nd half, Glasgow were very good on attack and scored 3 tries in the first half and then defended really well to deny Munster any points in the second half. Josh Strauss scored a try for Glasgow while fellow South African loose forward CJ Stander scored Munster’s only try. Jonny Gray and Sean Maitland also scored tries for Glasgow, Duncan Weir added the rest of the points converting two of the tries and also slotting a penalty.
PRO12: Rest of Saturday’s results – Benetton Treviso 45 (19)/(6)27 Newport Gwent Dragons, bonus point win for Marius Goosen’s Treviso who scored 4 tries.
Scarlets 27/20 Zebre, losing bonus point for the Italian team Zebre who scored more tries than Scarlets 3 against 2.
PRO12: Top 5 after 19 rounds (except Glasgow) – Leinster 69; Ulster 65; Munster 63; Glasgow (18 games) 60; Ospreys 56.
The frustrating thing as a Glasgow supporter is that in 1 game less they have won as many games as leaders Leinster – 14 – yet are 9 points behind because of Leinster drawing a game and bonus points, Leinster have 11 and Glasgow only 4.
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