The selection ­meeting would have involved detailed video analysis, a mountain of statistics, complex algorithms and long bouts of head-scratching.

Goodness knows why they bothered. When they sat down to choose their side to face Treviso in the Stadio Monigo this afternoon, all the Glasgow Warriors coaches had to do was pick Tommy Seymour on the wing and then draw 14 other names out of a hat.

A little simplistic, perhaps, but on his last two visits to that corner of Italy, Seymour has created more waves than the press flotilla following George Clooney down the Grand Canal.

Two seasons ago, he contributed two tries to Glasgow's 24-13 victory over Treviso; last season he went one better and helped himself to a hat-trick as the Warriors won 38-16.

Happy memories, but irrelevant now for Seymour. A more pressing consideration for the 26-year-old is the maintenance of Glasgow's 100% record in this season's Guinness PRO12 rather than the extension of his own scoring streak in Treviso.

"I'm looking forward to going back there," he said. "But I'm not really thinking about what happened last time. The excitement in the squad and in me is about what we've done this season. Hopefully, when we get there the weather will be nice, we'll have a dry ball and we can play some of the rugby we know we're capable of playing. There is excitement at a personal level and a team level about that, but it's not about anything that happened last year or the year before."

Nice weather is far from guaranteed - Glasgow's last two games in Treviso had miserable conditions - but Seymour's wish is understandable given the ­high-tempo game his side have played for the past few weeks.

There was a suspicion a different strategy would be needed this season as their opponents learned how to cope with the game they played over the past two campaigns, but the Warriors have simply refined it, reducing the errors that sometimes ­undermined their intentions in the past.

How have Glasgow done it? Seymour believes it's largely been mental. "I think we are confident without being an arrogant group," he said. "We believe in the abilities we have and the structures that are in place for us to play the kind of rugby we want to play. The boys trust each other and rely on each other and expect things of each other.

"The rugby we played last season was a good stepping stone to what were doing now. Taking the final [when they lost to Leinster in Dublin] out, we played some excellent rugby coming into the final stretch of last season and we have grown from that.

"People might have wondered whether we could carry it on and take another step. I do think we've shown that we're not satisfied with where we got last year. We have taken that, learned from it and developed our game and can probably now withstand the odd setback."

Some of that resilience has been needed in their past two games. Against the Dragons, they had to get by with 14 men after Tyrone Holmes was red-carded early in the second half, but they actually increased their lead as they pulled away for a bonus-point 33-13 win. Then, against Connacht, they had to accommodate weak defending before racing off in the final quarter to come through 39-21.

Signs of vulnerability? The final loss to Leinster was Glasgow's only defeat in their last 14 PRO12 games, but Seymour appreciates that the winning streak has to end sometime.

"Regardless of how good you are, or how many games you have won, it happens," he said. "But as a group I don't think we really think about the winning run. It's wonderful to have that behind us because it gives us confidence and, obviously, a good place in the table, but we know that it will end. What matters then is how we bounce back from it.

"We can't go into a game thinking 'oh, this might be the one where it ends'. We go in fully confident. What's in our favour is that we don't focus on the number of games we've gone unbeaten. We're very good at forgetting about last week or the last three weeks, and just focusing on the one we play next."

As their 12th-of-12 position in the table suggests, Treviso have been on a different trajectory just lately. Tipped for great things last season, they had a wretched time and finished second bottom. In this campaign they have not had the solace of a single bonus point, falling to four straight defeats.

In which light a comfortable Warriors win appears to be on the cards today. Well, for most of us. Seymour uses a different deck. "Within the squad, we always warn each other about complacency," he said. "There probably are expectations about us, but they don't come from us.

"We expect to do well and play our best brand of rugby. If we can do that then we will get results, but the expectation that we will beat a particular team or will win a certain game by a big margin is an external thing. It's not coming from us.

"It's fine if the fans think that way. It's good that they should have those high expectations. But it would be bad coming from us because that would mean complacency."

It is a rather different story at Edinburgh who suffered a 30-0 loss to Ulster in Belfast on Friday with coach Alan Solomons blaming it on discipline lapses.

"In the second half we had nine penalties against us and the two tries that killed us came from when Mike Coman was sent off for a yellow card," said Solomons. "That was the turning point of the game. The final penalty count ended up 14-4 and when you get a penalty count like that and a card, that's the difference."