Daryl Gibson will miss Glasgow's last pre-season outing against the European champions Wasps at Adams Park tonight, having been given special leave by coach Sean Lineen to stay at home and help look after new-born triplets Oscar, Indy and Finn.
Ian McGeechan, the Wasps supremo, believes Warriors will provide his side with the ideal test in the build up to their defence of the Heineken Cup.
He said: "Obviously many of the leading lights will be absent on World Cup duty, but it will still be a very valuable exercise for both clubs. Glasgow have qualifed for the Heineken Cup as the leading outfit north of the border and they have acquitted themselves very well against English opposition in recent times.
"We are looking on the game as the perfect work-out before we turn our attention to competitive action in the Premiership and in Europe."
Wasps welcome back the England prop Tim Payne, who has been sidelines since March with damaged knee-ligament damage.
Meanwhile, the Edinburgh caretaker coach, Henry Edwards, will give first outings of the season to prop Ryan Grant and Test lock Craig Hamilton in Saturday's warm-up against Italian side Viadana at Meggetland. Both are on the bench but Edwards, keen that his side should make amends for last weekend's heavy defeat by Bath, intends to give them at least a half each.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article