Craig Emerson

EDINBURGH captain Stuart McInally says Glasgow “are not unbeatable”, but has urged his team-mates to concentrate on their own game ahead of the 1872 Cup opener.

Scotland lock Jonny Gray has signed a new two-year contract with Glasgow that will tie him to Scotstoun until 2020.

MANU Tuilagi faces the prospect of being banned immediately after making his return from the latest injury setback to have blighted his career.

GLASGOW have secured the “X-factor” of Niko Matawalu for another season after the winger extended his contract to the summer of 2019.

SARACENS prop Mako Vunipola believes the European champions are back on track despite being beaten at the death by Clermont Auvergne.

PETER Horne admits he has no idea what position he is going to end up playing next season. The match in Montpellier was seen as his audition for the role Finn Russell will vacate at fly-half when he leaves Glasgow Warriors at the end of the campaign and his performance earned praise from his coach – but Horne himself is taking nothing for granted.

EDINBURGH trashed Russians Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk 78-0 at Murrayfield to also make it four straight wins.

DESPITE Glasgow Warriors’s breakthrough to the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup last year, their failure again this year is allowing some to question what the Scots bring to the tournament.

AS feared, Glasgow Warriors are facing a hooker crisis that could affect not just their European Champions Cup match this weekend against Montpelier, but which might also roll on to the two 1872 Cup games against Pro14 rivals Edinburgh.

THE image of a professional sportsman revolves round fitness and robust good health. Try telling that to Rory Sutherland, though, as he makes his way back from 14 months injured, two of them spent so badly incapacitated he could barely make it out of bed on his own.