{"id":385499,"date":"2011-04-21T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/fly-half-jones-back-for-scarlets\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:28:08","slug":"fly-half-jones-back-for-scarlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/fly-half-jones-back-for-scarlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-half Jones back for Scarlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"170.763450835\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Venue:<\/em> Firhill<\/li>\n<li><em>Date:<\/em> Friday, 22 April<\/li>\n<li><em>Kick-off:<\/em> 2005 BST<\/li>\n<li><em>Coverage:<\/em> Live on BBC Two Wales, BBC Alba and online, repeated on iPlayer; score updates online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/479852298220_stephen_jones_huw.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Stephen Jones\" \/> Stephen Jones came off the bench against Munster<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Glasgow give starts to five departing players on what is their final home game of a poor Magners League campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo Stortoni, Kevin Tkachuk, Aly Muldowney, Richie Vernon and James Eddie all say their Firhill farewells.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Jones reclaims the Scarlets&#8217; fly-half spot for Friday&#8217;s crucial visit to the west of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Jones takes over from Rhys Priestland, Scott Williams is at centre instead of Regan King and Aaron Shingler replaces Josh Turnbull at lock.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarlets&#8217; changes come in the wake of their 13-6 defeat by Munster as they bid for the play-offs, while Glasgow hope to bounce back from a 19-16 loss in Treviso.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarlets lie sixth on 52 points, four points below Cardiff Blues while the Dragons are eight points behind the Llanelli-based side.<\/p>\n<p>While the Scarlets can claim a top-four play-off spot, the Dragons could pip them to one of Wales&#8217; three Heineken Cup spots for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow have won only two of their last 10 league games, but are defending a record of never having suffered a double-season&#8217;s defeat by the Scarlets.<\/p>\n<p>The home side must continue without rested international trio John Barclay, Richie Gray and Alastair Kellock.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chris Cusiter and Graeme Morrison both start as they continue to regain match fitness after long absences through injury.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"23.828358209\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/rugby_union\/13161711.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff happening but we&#8217;re just not nailing those wins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Scarlets boss Nigel Davies<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have a guy the quality of Chris Cusiter back who will be making his first appearance at Firhill this season,&#8221; said head coach Sean Lineen. &#8220;Graeme Morrison scored a cracker last week as well so they&#8217;re like new signings. Their enthusiasm rubs off on the other players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a tough game. Llanelli play a fantastic brand of rugby so we can&#8217;t sit off and watch them play it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scarlets boss Nigel Davies said: &#8220;We were disappointed with the final result last week against Munster, in many areas of the game we out-played and performed them, but lacked that edge and winning mentality &#8211; which Munster have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a performance reflective of our season, with a lot of promise but we&#8217;re just not able to finish off tight encounters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve created lots of scoring opportunities and played all the rugby &#8211; but we have to be more accurate and balance our performance with the right mentality to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The structure&#8217;s good, and defensively since Europe we&#8217;ve been one of the top three performers in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff happening but we&#8217;re just not nailing those wins &#8211; it&#8217;s a big frustration to us and we have to put it right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been very hard on ourselves this week &#8211; we have to get results in our next two games and that is all that we can focus on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Europe is important to us and to maintain control of that we have to win our final games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that there&#8217;s pressure on, but we have to deal with that and I&#8217;m expecting this team to go out there and perform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a difficult place to play and Glasgow will play to their strengths and their home field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve trained on a reduced size pitch this week and the side that wins the kicking battle and exerts the most pressure in that area will undoubtedly come out on top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glasgow:<\/strong> Bernardo Stortoni, Hefin O&#8217;Hare, Peter Murchie, Graeme Morrison (capt), DTH van der Merwe, Ruaridh Jackson, Chris Cusiter, Kevin Tkachuk, Dougie Hall, Moray Low, Aly Muldowney, Tom Ryder, James Eddie, Richie Vernon, Johnnie Beattie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong> Fergus Thomson, Jon Welsh, Ryan Grant, Robert Harley, Ryan Wilson, Duncan Weir, Colin Gregor, Federico Aramburu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scarlets:<\/strong> Morgan Stoddart; George North, Gareth Maule, Scott Williams, Sean Lamont; Stephen Jones, Tavis Knoyle; Iestyn Thomas, Matthew Rees (capt), Rhys Thomas, Lou Reed, Aaron Shingler, Rob McCusker, Johnathan Edwards, Ben Morgan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replacements:<\/strong> Emyr Phillips, Phil John, Simon Gardiner, Dominic Day, David Lyons, Martin Roberts, Rhys Priestland, Daniel Evans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Carlo Damasco (Italy)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant referees:<\/strong> Andy Ireland, Achie McInally (Scotland)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TMO:<\/strong> Jim Yuile (Scotland)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/rugby_union\/13161711.stm\" title=\"Fly-half Jones back for Scarlets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fly-half Jones back for Scarlets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Venue: Firhill Date: Friday, 22 April Kick-off: 2005 BST Coverage: Live on BBC Two Wales, BBC Alba and online, repeated on iPlayer; 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