Glasgow Warriors head coach Sean Lineen has this week challenged his players to back-up their status as Magners League leaders by putting in a winning performance against Gloucester when they return to Heineken Cup duty at Firhill on Friday night (kick-off 7:30pm).

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“It’s a tale of two tables,” he said. “In the Magners League we’re at the top but in the Heineken Cup we’re at the bottom.

“We need to play like a team that’s at the top of the Magners League to do our current position justice.”

The Warriors lost their two opening games of the European competition away to Newport-Gwent Dragons and at home to Biarritz.

Now following a hard-fought win over Ulster in Belfast, Lineen wants his charges to get back to winning ways in Europe.

He continued: “We’re still disappointed with what happened with the Biarritz game so we need to make sure we’re back on form at Firhill to show the supporters what we’ve got as a professional sports team.

“Last weekend, I was particularly impressed with the way in which the players performed in such a hostile environment, especially our younger forwards like Jon Welsh, Richie Gray and Richie Vernon.”

The Warriors have made five changes, two positional, to the side that defeated Ulster last Friday.

Scotland captain Chris Cusiter returns to the number nine jersey and Peter Murchie takes over on the wing from National Academy youngster Alex Dunbar. In the pack, Dan Turner comes in for Tim Barker.

As a result of the changes, Thom Evans moves to the right wing and Richie Gray moves to the left hand side of the scrum.

Glasgow Warriors team to play Gloucester in the Heineken Cup at Firhill on Friday 11 December (kick-off 7:30pm)

15 Bernardo Stortoni

14 Thom Evans
13 Max Evans
12 Graeme Morrison
11 Peter Murchie

10 Dan Parks
9 Chris Cusiter

1 Jon Welsh
2 Dougie Hall
3 Moray Low
4 Richie Gray
5 Dan Turner
6 Kelly Brown
7 John Barclay CAPTAIN
8 Richie Vernon

Substitutes
16 Fergus Thomson
17 Ed Kalman
18 Kevin Tkachuk
19 Tim Barker
20 Calum Forrester
21 Mark McMillan
22 Colin Gregor
23 DTH van der Merwe