Bath rugby director Sir Ian McGeechan praised his side's forward effort after the 23-18 Heineken Cup victory over Glasgow.
Lineen left to rue missed opportunity
Bath rugby director Sir Ian McGeechan praised his side's forward effort after his front five's dominance laid the foundations for their 23-18 Heineken Cup victory over Glasgow.
McGeechan said: "The forwards were tremendous. We out-scrummaged them, our driving line-outs were excellent, from which I felt we should have had more penalties.
"Our discipline and patience was outstanding and they gave us a great platform all day.
"If the front five go well then the back row look good for it, so I give big licks to the front five. It allows us to work off that platform, to work quite hard on the back of our driving mauls and it was a really good tight forward performance."
The four-times Lions head coach was less happy to have seen his side relinquish their hard-earned lead, as they had done against Montpellier and Leinster earlier in the tournament.
"We got to 17-6 and were playing well so I was disappointed we didn't kick on, but to come back to finish strongly and get hold of the game again was pleasing and those two penalties saw us home," he said.
"Having not seen out the game in Montpellier it was important to win and the manner of it, with us controlling the last seven or eight minutes, showed there have been some harsh lessons learnt.
"We have lost games we should have seen out and that was the pleasing aspect of today, that we saw it out strongly."
Defeat ended Glasgow's hopes of dropping down to a quarter-final berth in the Amlin Challenge Cup, although they did finish second in the pool.
Naivety
Head coach Sean Lineen said: "It's very disappointing. Our ambition is to win games and that was winnable. In the third quarter we showed our naivety, by playing in the wrong areas for too long and getting penalised.
"We were playing against a team with 14 men and we just needed to put a kick in behind them, and that is down to experience and we did not make good decisions.
"Once we had momentum we looked dangerous but it did not happen often enough, a losing bonus point is just not good enough."
Lineen was also less than pleased with the pummelling his side took in the forward exchanges, and the interception pass thrown by Duncan Weir to gift Biggs his try.
"The main thing was the set-piece battle," he said. "We lost it in the first half. Our line-out drives and scrums were really poor, and the intercept killed us, it was an individual mistake and it is a killer.
"I have said to the guys that in the pool we won two games, drawn one and lost three and that is not where we wanted to be. In the first half we were not at the level."
