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South Africa assistant coaches Mzwandile Stick and Deon Davids are the favourites to succeed Jacques Nienaber as head coach when he quits after the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
Huw Jones will start at full back for Glasgow Warriors as Franco Smith’s side seek the Scotstoun win over Scarlets that would guarantee a home quarter-final in the United Rugby Championship.Playing in his customary position of outside centre, Jones was a standout in Scotland’s recent Six Nations campaign, but was fielded in the number 15 jersey by the previous Glasgow head coach Danny Wilson for the majority of the final season of his first stint at the club, and then again by Harlequins in his solitary Premiership campaign.
Rory Darge believes there is no reason for Glasgow to approach the first European semi-final in the club’s history with any trepidation. After seeing off a dogged Lions challenge 31-21 at Scotstoun on Saturday night, the Warriors will head to Llanelli to face Scarlets in the last four of the European Challenge Cup on Saturday, April 29.
Franco Smith admitted that the pressure of the occasion had got to Glasgow Warriors as they staggered rather than surged into the first European semi-final in t
Unlike last week’s rout of the Dragons, this was not a Glasgow performance that will live long in the memory. It was, however, still enough to secure a first European semi-final in the history of the club, with the Warriors now set to travel to Llanelli to face Scarlets in three weeks’ time.