Argentina wing Sebastian Cancelliere to start for Glasgow at Benetton Treviso
Sebastian Cancelliere returns from injury to start for Glasgow in Saturday’s BKT United Rugby Championship clash with Benetton Treviso in Italy.
The Argentina wing and prop Nathan McBeth are the only two changes following last month’s convincing win over the Dragons.
Jamie Dobie goes back from the wing to his normal scrum-half role as Ben Afshar drops to the bench following his try-scoring appearance.
Scotland international Jamie Bhatti is rested, but international team-mate Stafford McDowall will again skipper the Warriors.
Head coach Franco Smith told glasgowwarriors.org: “Benetton will be defending a proud home record, and have been in strong form across this season to date.
“They have recruited well and have developed their squad across the board, providing a strong opponent for us that we will need to be at our best to overcome.”
Benetton v Glasgow Warriors
Stadio Monigo, Treviso – KO 15.00 IRE & UK / 16.00 ITA / 17.00 SA
Referee: Eoghan Cross (IRFU, 13th league game)
AR 1: Filippo Russo (FIR) AR 2: Alex Frasson (FIR)
TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)
Benetton: Jacob Umaga (Kenilworth Rugby Club), Ignacio Mendy (Los Tilos Rugby Club), Malakai Fekitoa (Houmale’eia Rugby Club), Marco Zanon (Rugby Bassano) Onisi Ratave (Delainamasi school), Tomas Albornoz (Tucuman Rugby Club), Alessandro Garbisi (Mogliano Rugby), Thomas Gallo (Universitario de Tucuman), Siua Maile (College Atele), Simone Ferrari (Amatori Milano), Gideon Koegelenberg (Hugenote High-School), Eli Snyman (John’s College Harare) (CAPT), Alessandro Izekor (Rugby Brescia), Giovanni Pettinelli (Rugby Venezia), Toa Halafihi (Gisborne Boys High School)
Replacements: Federico Zani (Amatori Rugby Parma), Ivan Nemer (Sporting Club de Mar del Plata), Tiziano Pasquali (Appia Rugby Roma), Riccardo Favretto (Silea Rugby), Edoardo Iachizzi (Lazio Rugby), Henry Time-Stowers (Wainuiomata Rugby Club), Andy Uren (Keysham) Giacomo Da Re (Benetton Rugby)
Glasgow Warriors: Josh McKay (Kaiapoi), Sebastian Cancelliere (Hindu Club), Stafford McDowall (Stewartry RFC), Tom Jordan (Hamilton Old Boys), Facundo Cordero (Club Regata de Bella Vista), Ross Thompson (Stewarts Melville Lions), Jamie Dobie (Highland RFC), Nathan McBeth (Monument High School), Johnny Matthews (St Edwards College), Lucio Sordoni (Medalla Milagrosa), Max Williamson (Stirling County), Alex Samuel (Madras), Euan Ferrie (East Kilbride), Thomas Gordon (Rotorua), Henco Venter (Grey College)
Replacements: Gregor Hiddleston (Dumfries Saints), Allan Dell (Border), Oli Kebble (Dulwich College), Sintu Manjezi (St Andrews College), Ally Miller (Preston Lodge RFC), Angus Fraser (Dundee Eagles), Ben Afshar (Edinburgh Academical), Duncan Weir (Cambuslang)
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Some interesting stats that just proved what my first impression of NZ’s drive to speed up Rugby Union would amount to - fine margins here and there to cut a few seconds off the game and nothing else. To do more there would have to be wholesale changes to the game like doing away with scrums, lineouts and bringing back the ELV’s to have free kicks instead of penalties. Very little chance of it happening but, in the end, Ruby Union would be a 15-man version of Rugby League. There are reasons why Rugby Union is globally more popular that Rugby League and what NZ are also not considering is the unintended consequences of what they want to achieve. This will end up turning Rugby Union into a low value product that will not be acceptable to the paying public. If people really wanted a sped-up version of rugby, then why is Rugby Union globally way more popular than Rugby League? Rugby lovers all over the world are also not stupid and have seen through what NZ are trying to achieve here, selfishly to bring back their glory days of dominance over every other nation and compete with Rugby League that is dominant in Australasia. NH countries just don’t have the cattle, or the fantastic weather needed to play like NZ SR franchises do so good luck to whoever has to try and convince the NH to accept going back to the days of NZ dominance and agreeing to wreck the game in the process. I have serious doubts on the validity of the TV stats presented by GP. All they did was expand the broadcasting base by putting it on free to air, not even any indication of arresting the continued drop in viewership. Match day attendance goes hand in hand with broadcast ratings so if there was an increase in the one you should expect to see it with the other. However, the drop in match day attendance is very evident to the casual highlights package viewer. The only club who looks to be getting solid attendance is the Drua. I am calling it now that NZ’s quest to speed up the game will fail and so will the vote on the 20-minute red card.
Go to commentsIt’s a good, timely wake up call for NZ Rugby (seem to be a few of them lately!) - sort out the bureaucratic nonsense at board level. We can’t expect to stay the number one option without keeping fans/players engaged. We’ve obviously been bleeding players to league for years but can’t let the floodgates open (although I think this headline is hyperbolic as it’s a result of a recent Warriors pathways system where they are tracking things more closely) Understand the need to focus boys on rugby if they’re at a proud rugby school too, don’t think it’s harsh at all re Barakat in Hamilton. Reward the committed players with squad positions. An elite 1st XV system in NZ has done more for league than they even realise, think it’s good to protect our game further.
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