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Wounded Warriors will have to do it the hard way if they are to defend URC crown

Wounded Warriors will have to do it the hard way if they are to defend URC crown

Bruised, battered and bashed-up for much of the season, there was a cruel sense of inevitability that Glasgow Warriors should lose another key player to injury ahead of the URC play-offs.

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