Stormers 48-12 Glasgow: Three things we learned

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Warriors late season wobble

Glasgow are still very much alive in this season's URC title race, but this late-season wobble is now concerning.

Having built a brilliant platform in both the URC and Champions Cup, the European defeat by Toulon seems to have sparked a mini crisis of confidence.

Injuries are undoubtedly biting hard, but the double-header in South Africa has been really poor. Zero match points claimed, 14 tries and 102 points conceded across the two games and their long-held lead at the top of the table gone. It could not have gone any worse.

They have been here before, bouncing back from disappointment in South Africa to return and claim the URC title in 2024. They did it the hard way then and it's looking like the may have to travel the tough road to do it again.

Tuipulotu goes down fighting

It will hardly go down as one of his great individual performances, but Sione Tuipulotu was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal day for Glasgow.

The Scotland captain was always looking for ball, carrying hard into a defence that was giving little change.

His brilliant break was the spark for Ollie Smith's first-half try, and although gaps were hard to come by as the game wore on, Tuipulotu never stopped trying to find them.

Glasgow will need him at his best in the coming weeks.

Glasgow missing spark at nine

Any team would miss players of the quality of George Horne and Jamie Dobie, and Glasgow's scrum-half injuries are threatening to derail their season.

The tempo which Horne in particular brings is so crucial to the way Warriors play and his influence has been sorely missed in the past few matches.

Ben Afshar is a decent player and will get better with experience, but can be a little laboured at the base of the ruck and that split-second delay is enough to take the edge off the Glasgow attack.

Horne is thought to be not too far away from a return and how Glasgow could be doing with him for the run-in.