DAVE Rennie has admitted to considerable disappointment at both George Turner’s indiscretion which cost his team dearly at Glasgow Warriors relinquished a commanding position against Montpellier last week and the scale of the punishment doled out, writes Kevin Ferrie.

The match turned after the hooker was sin-binned for his reckless off the ball barge on Louis Picamoles, the experienced French international No 8 who had clearly deliberately occupied an obstructive running line and Rennie was frustrated by the naivete Turner displayed in making sufficiently vigorous contact that Picamoles required treatment, drawing the attention of the match officials to the incident, but said it had not changed the way the team management feels about their player.

“I won’t divulge the conversations we had around that,” he said. “George is pretty disappointed.

“It was a key moment in the game, but it was only one key moment of a large number. We had pressure on them at that stage and it hurt us going into half-time. He regrets the situation.

“There was a bit of frustration there because there was a lot of obstruction going on off the ball. He was making an effort to get to the bloke who was carrying the ball in behind and his action probably could have been different if he had used a bit of footwork or only pushed him out of the way, but because it was a collision the judiciary got involved and he has been punished.

“I’m disappointed for him but he will learn from it. In the end we still love him; he’s been great for us, one of our best players. I’d say he has learned a lesson.”

While he felt the four week ban Turner subsequently received was harsh, he accepted how it came about and that his players must learn to take responsibility for their actions.

“You’ve got to take it, but the key is not to put ourselves in that position,” said Rennie.