Defeated coach Lyn Jones was short and to the point in his assessment of bonus-point-winning Glasgow as he hid his disappointment:

"I don't see a team in the league that can test Glasgow at the moment."

Rival coach Gregor Townsend's squad depth is becoming the envy of most other teams in the Guinness Pro12: nine personnel changes for this game, down to 14 men for all but a minuted of the second half, yet they still came away with four tries and a comfortable win on Saturday.

Jones was looking forward to this Friday's second-versus-third match against Connacht, but he was also defending his own side's performance by pointing out the strength of his opposition.

Glasgow are likely to be without flanker Tyrone Holmes, sent off for stamping in an incident Townsend compared to a scrum-half clearing out the ball, while captain Josh Strauss and scrum-half Niko Matawalu both limped off with muscle injuries and are facing a short period on the sidelines.

But while the story could so easily have been how the sending-off derailed Glasgow, if anything they improved from that stage and scored the last three tries after Holmes' dismissal just after the restart.

Certainly they impressed Jones, whose team have also lost to this week's visitors to Glasgow, unbeaten Connacht. "Glasgow look more like a quarter-final or semi-final in Europe side every time I see them," he said. "They have too much in their armoury. Their squad is too deep and they have a lot of quality in their squad. I don't know if the depth in Connacht's squad is quite up to Glasgow's because they will have knocks today and they need to keep their team fresh; Glasgow just have too much speed, too much class for Connacht.

"I thought the rugby they put together was sublime; they are surfing on the top of the wave at the moment and confidence is high. They are playing, the ball is going everywhere. The ball is going to deck and they just pick it up and go again."

Not that there is any complacency in the Glasgow squad looking forward to that Connacht visit, but there was satisfaction that after two weeks of winning with three tries they finally clinched the fourth to claim a bonus point.

Scotland and Glasgow wing Tommy Seymour scored one of the tries, put clear by a beautiful pass from Stuart Hogg to finish well down the right-hand touchline.

"You go down to 14 men, it is not ideal, the pressure it causes you is obvious," he said. "We grouped together well with the 14 who remained on the park and went out and dealt with them. It was down to a seven-point game then and swings can happen even with 15 guys on the park, but we will look at the positives and one of those was that we went out and got the result.

"We were a bit disappointed, not in the results of the last two fixtures,but that we finished both with three tries and the bonus point left behind, so we were delighted to get in the position where we had the fourth try to go for and the forwards put in a great shift with a lineout drive.

"It is really, really early in the season but we are delighted that we have managed to get a bit of momentum in the first couple of games. We come up next week against a side that is unbeaten as well."

What was most impressive about Glasgow was not the way they coped with the sending-off, or even the way they had made so many changes without disrupting the rhythm, but the variety of the tries they scored.

The first was from a powerful, direct line taken by centre Alex Dunbar, running on to a flat pass in midfield and going between the posts. Seymour's try was a well-worked backs move with Hogg creating space for his wing.

Then Strauss finished off a move where they kept recycling the ball while moving forward yard by yard, and the bonus point-clinching try to Tim Swinson came from a controlled and powerful lineout drive.

That ability to score through backs or forwards will serve Glasgow Warriors well in pursuit of a home semi-final and final in the play-offs at the end of the season.

It took Glasgow 18 games into last season to claim a try-scoring bonus point, so this puts them ahead of the game. Newport Gwent Dragons could not live with them and Jones at least felt that said more about the visitors than his own side.