Six Nations<\/a> opener at the Principality Stadium on Saturday. However, it was a better showing than their World Cup campaign last year.<\/p>\n“The fight and the character that those girls showed at the end, to be playing phase after phase from their own try line, is what we’ve been going after,” said Lynn.<\/p>\n
“For me it was a Test match, the improvement we’ve made from the World Cup to where we are now, you can clearly see it.<\/p>\n
“I was super proud of them all.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Everything is just a mind shift, we are doing everything for each other, there’s new voices coming in, new faces – and that’s players and staff.”<\/p>\n
Franco Smith proud of Glasgow players despite Champions Cup knockout<\/p>\n
By Press Association Sport Staff<\/p>\n
Franco Smith was proud of his Glasgow players for raising the expectation levels despite being knocked out of the Investec Champions Cup following a 22-19 defeat at home to Toulon.<\/p>\n
Warriors had been favourites to progress from their first-ever home quarter-final in this competition, but Toulon proved too strong on the day as they handed the hosts a first home loss for 12 months.<\/p>\n
Smith admitted it was a huge disappointment to have their European journey end at this stage but praised his players for changing the mindset to the point that many people had expected them to defeat the three-time European champions.<\/p>\n
The head coach said: \u201cI\u2019m obviously disappointed with the result. That goes without saying, I suppose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe worked really hard in the last years to get this right. We set ourselves up for a good run-in, but there\u2019s still work to be done.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe expectation that\u2019s grown, we created that as a team so I\u2019m very proud of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said it to the boys in the changing room, \u2018we created the expectation\u2019. People thought that we could win this competition and that is a big mind shift.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stafford McDowall, Ollie Smith and Gregor Hiddleston crossed over for the hosts, while Gael Drean replied with a brace before Jean-Baptiste Gros and Nacho Brex sealed the win for Toulon.<\/p>\n
Smith added: \u201cMaybe the motivation we take from this is to believe we can make that next step.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying we didn\u2019t show that today but the fact that we played at home and everybody\u2019s coming out here and everybody\u2019s excited about that, that little expectation, it comes into the changing room.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saw it in the first five or 10 minutes, little knock-ons or little things that go wrong and we must learn to deal with that as a club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glasgow are set to lose a number of senior players in the summer including Huw Jones, Jack Dempsey, Johnny Matthews and Adam Hastings.<\/p>\n
But Smith insisted this was not their only shot at European success.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe\u2019ve lost big players before, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the end of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack, Huw, Johnny and Adam, they\u2019ve contributed massively but the understudies are there. The next guys are there to take over.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m absolutely not concerned. This is a solid club. We believe in significance, not in success. We will continue to produce a very good product, regardless of some of the results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest rugby stories making headlines for Sunday, April 12. Dragons huddle after their victory(Image: Huw Evans Picture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[26923,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-527538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-dragons","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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