Slapdash Glasgow rankle Searancke
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Your support makes all the difference.The Glasgow coach, Kiwi Searancke, could not disguise his frustration over the "soft tries" that led to a 35-21 defeat against Bourgoin at Stade Pierre Rajon yesterday, leaving the Scots' Heineken Cup hopes hanging by a thread.
Eromodo Tuni and Alexandre Peclier ran in two tries apiece, with the latter also adding two conversions and two penalties, as the visitors struggled against Bourgoin's power and pace. Nathan Ross, Gordon Simpson and Calvin Howarth all crossed over for Glasgow tries, but the damage had already been done.
"They made such a lot from our little mistakes," Searancke said. "We gave them three scores in the first half, which you can't get away with at this level. They took their chances well, but the annoying thing was that we didn't make them work for their points."
Wasps will take a commanding 43-6 lead into the second leg of their Parker Pen Challenge Cup second-round tie against Bordeaux after scoring six tries at Adams Park. Craig Dowd, the captain Lawrence Dallaglio, Simon Shaw, Mark van Gisbergen and Stuart Abbott all went over for the home side. The fly-half Alex King also kicked five conversions and a penalty, and was the victim of an illegal tackle, for which the home side was awarded a penalty try.
Two key Wasps players, Paul Sampson and Fraser Waters, will be missing from the squad for some weeks after suffering injuries playing for England in the Sevens in Dubai, to the annoyance of their coach Warren Gatland.
"How do you tell the club owners you are without key players because they were injured while away?" asked Gatland. "We will seriously have to look at releasing players in future for such competitions."
Saracens will head into the second leg of their tie against Colomiers in confident spirits after a 16-6 victory at Vicarage Road, where Wayne Shelford's side prevented their visitors from scoring for the first 50 minutes.
The Saracens full-back, Adryan Winnan, eased the home side into a 6-0 lead with two early penalties. French international Thomas Castaignède, playing for the first time for Saracens at fly-half, then converted a 24th-minute penalty, and a converted try by Darragh O'Mahony gave Saracens a comfortable 16-point cushion before the break.
The Colomiers fly-half, David Skrela, broke his side's duck after 51 minutes with a penalty, then added a second 20 minutes later.
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