Rory O'Connor

when they get everyone on you know all the first team players having enjoyed a really positive Six Nations finish with Ireland feeling confident playing Andy Farrell rugby that they can bring back and kind of infuse on top of the Nienaber system but does Nienaber now have to deprogram them again and teach them his ways and cut out all the good stuff that we saw with Ireland

Prendergast confidence is down they've got injuries although Ryan Bear coming back is big for them and Porter is back but they've lost Jack Boyle and Paddy McCarthy they're light at loose head beneath Andrew Porter there are issues for them to fix I wouldn't be anywhere near as bullish as I would have been about them in the last couple of years and they didn't even get over the line in those seasons

I think their attack looked... I don't know whether Tyler Blyanol has the autonomy to do as much coaching as he'd like.

I'm not sure how much responsibility he has.

But I thought the attack, particularly around that 50-minute mark when they were going from side to side with loads of possession over in Scotstown, it was so blunt.

It lacked ambition.

It lacked shape.

And part of that's on Prendergast, who just isn't playing well and looks low on confidence.

And obviously Glasgow fed off that and got in his face and really sewed it into him.

Really well acted.

And that's what teams are going to do, because he's obviously become a target for teams.

So there's a worry there.

Keenan looked really good, looked top of the ground.

They have a confident Jamie Osborne coming back.

They've got Gary Ringos coming back, albeit he struggled with injury during the Six Nations, but he played well.

So they have...

These players are coming back and they are in good nick and good form coming into it.

And you would hope that that overall calibre of player lifts the standards and is able to break a team like Glasgow down.

But if the structure isn't there and there's not enough time being put into it, if they have to put a lot of time into their defense to get them playing the Neil Arbor way again in the next couple of weeks, then it could be fitful again.

Now, they have a fairly kind run of fixtures coming.