Glasgow Warriors boss Franco Smith had “no excuses” for his crew’s efficiency within the 52-0 Investec Champions Cup defeat to Leinster.
All Blacks star Jordie Barrett produced a man-of-the-match efficiency as Leinster ran in eight tries and nilled the Scottish outfit in an emphatic quarter-final victory.
Reflecting on the match, Smith praised Leinster and the membership’s set-up, a crew he believes to be “far forward of everybody else” within the Champions Cup and may very well be higher than Eire.
Glasgow Warriors merely outplayed
“They have been sensible, I’m not even going to attempt make excuses from our aspect… It’s the primary time that we have now been utterly bullied in each a part of the sport,” the coach instructed Premier Sports activities.
He echoed these sentiments within the post-match press convention, stating that Glasgow isn’t the primary crew to be outplayed by Leinster, who’re successfully a global outfit.
The Leinster beginning XV had just one participant, Tommy O’Brien, who’s but to play worldwide rugby, and the identical is true on the bench with rookie lock Diarmuid Mangan being the one participant but to play a Take a look at match.
“Clearly we’re disenchanted however if you happen to take a look at it, we have been outplayed by a global crew,” Smith mentioned.
“They haven’t performed a lot because the Six Nations so they’re recent, and so they have a degree to show in Europe, however we nonetheless got here with our greatest intent, and I can’t fault the hassle of the boys – We have been simply completely outplayed in each side of the sport.
“I’m not the primary coach to take a seat right here and say that, different coaches have sat right here and mentioned how good they’re.
“For me, we’ve been successful fairly a bit and pushing the gamers’ boundaries and limits each week however at the moment they came upon what continues to be wanted to be aggressive in worldwide rugby or the highest finish of membership rugby.”
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Are Leinster higher than Eire?
Smith received’t be mulling over the margin of the defeat as Glasgow’s consideration turns to defending their United Rugby Championship title.
He admits this type of defeat occurs as soon as a season and his aspect merely got here up in opposition to a greater crew.
“The ultimate rating as a mirrored image of the sport appears large however if you’re chasing 33-0 at half-time, you will take possibilities in areas of the sector the place you shouldn’t and that results in different factors,” he continued.
“Annually or as soon as a season, with an excellent crew, blips like this occur and sadly for us, we got here up in opposition to a particularly good crew.
“They scored 62 factors in opposition to Harlequins final week and now they’ve scored 114 factors in two video games. They’re doing one thing very well and that’s the place the praise sits tonight.
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“I’m going to brush the end result off, we didn’t not rock up, we simply bought crushed by a really sturdy crew that’s to this point forward of each membership within the competitors.”
There’s a suggestion that Leinster are literally a greater crew than Eire and a notion that Smith doesn’t disagree with pointing to the membership’s two worldwide recruits.
“There was a remark final week that they’re higher than Eire, you exchange Bundee Aki with Jordie Barrett it’s totally different after which you have got a two-time World Cup winner within the locks [RG Snyman],” he mentioned.
“It’s spectacular, I feel Leinster calls for outcomes like this with the standard and depth they’ve within the squad and in the event that they don’t; then it’s them who should not performing.
“That second squad went to South Africa and picked up factors in opposition to full-strength South African groups, we have to put it into perspective. Have we missed gamers tonight? Sure, however that’s not an excuse. What I’m enthusiastic about is that 9 or 10 of our gamers bought the chance to expertise this.”
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