23 January 2012, 1:49pm

Glasgow Warriors match report from the Centurions Club

Junior match reporter, Ben Da Costa, writes the next in a series of match reports from the Centurions Club.

In a dry but cold early afternoon, Bath Rugby hosted Glasgow Warriors in the final round of the Heineken Cup. A few lucky children were plucked from the crowd to welcome the team onto the Recreation ground and how the team responded to the support from the youth of the club by claiming a nail biting victory against the Celtic warriors from Scotland.

An opening barrage of attacks from Glasgow gave them a slim 3-0 lead. However, the determined and rugged Tom Biggs made an intuitive interception and ran fully 40 yards to score a break away try, which with the conversion gave the boys in black, blue and white a deserved lead of 7-3. An exchange of penalties late in the first half, due to lack of discipline, resulted in a half time score line of 10-6 following successful strikes from Weir and Barkley. The score did not fully and fairly reflect the control and physical advantage that the Bath forwards were starting to apply on the Scots.

However the second half certainly started a firebrand of a performance from The Bath forwards, who began to dominate every ruck and maul, starting to drive the Glasgow pack backwards, whilst being roared on by an excited crowd. Centurions Club man of the match Charlie Beech, made multiple carries, crossing and crashing over and through the gain line with an ever-growing confidence.

Following a line out, The Bath pack drove toward the try line and Ben Skirving, recalled to first team action, was able to score a vital try. With Barkley completing the conversion, Bath took a pivotal 17-6 lead and we had breathing space...or did we?

Suddenly Glasgow sprang to life and started a consistent wave of attacks, putting tremendous pressure on our defence. Tom Biggs, yet again put his body on the line and a bone crunching tackle on the massive Richard Gray, stunning the Scots as well as the crowd. Biggs was later to be substituted, which was as a direct result of the pounding his body took on behalf of his teammates. Despite such heroics, Tommy Seymour produced a quality try, which with the conversion narrowed the lead to 17-13.

Further pressure was applied on the boys following the yellow card to Chris Cook. Soon after Stuart Hogg then evaded a series of tackles to break down the wing and go over for a deserved Glasgow try and give them a narrow advantage with less than 15 minutes to go. Surely not another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory?

The passionate home crowd had little to worry about. The boys in Black, Blue and White, thought through the solutions, steadied the ship and began to do the basics right as they had in the first part of the second half. The majority of the last 10 minutes was played deep in Glasgow's half and the pressure counted as the Scots began to make mistakes and concede penalties, which allowed Olly Barkley to take the lead up to six points by the end of the game, with the score at 23-18.

The final whistle was followed by a sense of relief and pride in the way the boys fought hard for this win and bowed out of the Heineken Cup. As Banners told the Centurions Club last week in interview "The team needs to start winning and get a momentum going" This may be the start of the winning momentum.

On the 28th January Bath Rugby will be looking to build on the win against Glasgow as we take on Northampton Saints in the LV=Cup, kick off 2:30pm.  Tickets are still available, call the ticket office on 0844 448 1865 or click here to buy yours today.