Lineen blasts Warriors

Sep 18 2008 By Matthew Leslie

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WARRIORS boss Sean Lineen blasted his troops after they chucked away victory in the last minute to the Ospreys.

A Thom Evans try looked to have pinched a priceless win but sloppy discipline allowed Alun Wyn Evans to steam over to clinch the points for the Welsh side.

In all fairness, had the Warriors held on this would have been rugby's equivalent of a mugging as the Ospreys had dominated the home pack throughout the game.

But Lineen was furious that when offered a lifeline, his men threw it back to the opposition.

He fumed: "I'm frustrated because we threw it away in the last eight minutes.

"Thom scored an excellent try but we were celebrating like as if it had won the game while forgetting that Ospreys still had enough time to win it themselves. You can't do that.

"Yes it was great to take the lead after being under pressure but when you get in that position, you hold on to it and then celebrate when the final whistle's gone.

However, Warriors winger Evans - who had scored an earlier try in the first half - claimed his celebration had nothing to do with Glasgow's defeat.

He said: "I don't think my celebration was over the top - I was just so happy to have scored the try which put us back into the lead.

"There may have been a sense of relief because prior to that score we had been under the cosh.

"Perhaps we should have eased off with the celebration as the match still had to be won - there were eight minutes left - but that's something to be addressed for next time."

Glasgow didn't play well with the scrum being bullied throughout and fly-half Dan Parks having a nightmare in front of the posts-despite breaking the Magners League points record with a rare success.

Lineen added: "Our scrum was frail and we couldn't get any quick ball plus Dan choose a heck of a moment to have a bad night.

"But no one's dead.... yet.

Although against Connacht we must be smarter with our play, cut out the silly passes and more importantly, the guys must stand up and be counted as the Dragons win now means nothing."