Ali Price admits Glasgow Warriors indiscipline but insists Leinster will be 'great challenge'

Ali Price has accepted that Glasgow have no excuses for their patchy form in recent weeks – nor for the indiscipline which proved so costly to them in their 28-11 defeat by Edinburgh on Saturday night.

The Warriors have played some inspired rugby at times this season, as has been the case for many years past. But they have only rarely played well throughout a whole game, and that failing has too often cost them against the toughest opponents.

Thanks to that loss at BT Murrayfield, their next opponents are arguably the toughest of all – Leinster, who they visit in the URC quarter-finals at the start of next month. The Dublin side were PRO14 champions last season, and could go into the Glasgow game as kings of Europe, too – they play La Rochelle in the Champions Cup final in Marseille on Saturday.

Scotland scrum-half Price is all too well aware of how demanding a fixture that game will be for his team, but to an extent he feels that the pressure will be off, given Leinster’s status as overwhelming favourites for the game. “We’re going to go there as underdogs, we know that,” he said. “We’ve got nothing to lose.

“They’re obviously at the peak of their powers at the moment. They’ve got their European final this week then we’ve got our shot at them the next week.

“It’s a great challenge. I don’t think there’s a better team in European rugby at the moment. It’s 15 v 15, isn’t it?”

Poor discipline has been a problem for Glasgow both this season and last, and on the evidence of Saturday’s 1872 Cup loss – a defeat which also means they will only be playing in the Challenge Cup rather than the Champions Cup next season – they are no closer to learning how to conduct themselves more appropriately. It has become a vicious circle for