{"id":30062,"date":"2018-11-20T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=30062"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:32:36","slug":"cardiff-blues-vs-glasgow-pro14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/20\/cardiff-blues-vs-glasgow-pro14\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues face daunting trip to top-of-league Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30064 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30064 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/Blues-vs-Warriors-matchday-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nCARDIFF Blues face a daunting trip to top-of-the league Glasgow Warriors on Friday night in the Guinness Pro 14.<br \/>\nDave Rennie\u2019s side extinguished Cardiff\u2019s hopes in the Heineken Champions Cup earlier in the season, winning 12-29 as they scored two tries within the opening four minutes.<br \/>\nConsistency has been an elusive quality for the region this season and they sit mid-table in Conference A.<br \/>\nThe new league format \u2013 introduced last year \u2013 leaves the Blues fighting for a position in the top three in order to qualify for the play-offs.<br \/>\nA fiercely competitive conference sees just three points separate four teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcf8 | The squad were training at Scotstoun today ahead of the visit of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cardiff_blues?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cardiff_blues<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Last remaining tickets available here\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EfMQpagkSD\">https:\/\/t.co\/EfMQpagkSD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nxzdBM8Bii\">pic.twitter.com\/nxzdBM8Bii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glasgow Warriors (@GlasgowWarriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlasgowWarriors\/status\/1064582712290349060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Stat Attack<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The size of the task the region faces presents itself in the fact that the Warriors have never lost a home Pro 14 match in regular season.<\/li>\n<li>The Scotsuon Stadium has not been a happy-hunting ground for John Mulvihill\u2019s men, either, as the Blues have fallen to four consecutive defeats.<\/li>\n<li>The Blues have racked up 82 points in their last two fixtures \u2013 sweeping aside Uruguay 45-21 in a friendly and strolling to a 37-0 victory against Zebre in their last Pro 14 tie.<\/li>\n<li>The Warriors have scored a competition-high 36 tries and have conceded the second fewest tries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Squad News<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Though the Blues have several key men missing because of <a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/20\/can-wales-make-it-four-out-of-four-v-south-africa\/\">Wales\u2019 Autumn International against South Africa,<\/a> they can take consolation in the Warriors\u2019 squad also being cherry-picked by Scotland ahead of their tussle with Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARDIFF Blues face a daunting trip to top-of-the league Glasgow Warriors on Friday night in the Guinness Pro 14. Dave Rennie\u2019s side extinguished Cardiff\u2019s hopes in the Heineken Champions Cup earlier in the season, winning 12-29 as they scored two tries within the opening four minutes. Consistency has been an elusive quality for the region this season and they sit mid-table in Conference A. The new league format \u2013 introduced last year \u2013 leaves the Blues fighting for a position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":30064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[898,6189,6190,902],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby","category-sport","tag-cardiff-blues","tag-champions-cup","tag-glasgow-warriors","tag-pro-14"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blues face daunting trip to top-of-league Glasgow - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/20\/cardiff-blues-vs-glasgow-pro14\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blues face daunting trip to top-of-league Glasgow - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CARDIFF Blues face a daunting trip to top-of-the league Glasgow Warriors on Friday night in the Guinness Pro 14. 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