POOL TWO Glasgow 33 Gloucester 11: GLASGOW RATTLED up 27 points in the first half on their way to a convincing win over Gloucester to keep alive their hopes of progressing from Pool Two.
A fiery opening shook the visitors and Dan Parks slotted two penalties in the opening five minutes. The Glasgow outhalf then went from hero to villain as a skewed kick gave Gloucester their only field position of the opening 10 minutes and Nicky Robinson opened the scoring for the visitors with a simple penalty.
Glasgow kept the game deep in the opposition half for Parks to land penalty number three but Robinson reduced the margin two minutes later with his second penalty.
Parks replied again before another misplaced kick allowed Gloucester to attack and set up Charlie Sharples for the first try of the game.
Parks confirmed the dominance of the Glasgow forwards three minutes later with his fifth penalty and, eight minutes from half-time, a sparkling crossfield move saw Max Evans cross for a home try.
The break did not come quickly enough for a beleaguered Gloucester, who conceded try number two when Parks’s long pass found fullback Bernie Stortoni to romp in for the score.
The conversion took Parks’s first-half tally to 17 points and he made it 20 just three minutes into the second half with another penalty.
Gloucester tried to apply some pressure in the middle phase of the second half but, with 10 minutes left, Glasgow again started to put pace on the ball as the visitors ran out of steam and ideas and Parks banged over his seventh penalty to close out the game.
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