19.06 – David Humphreys is speaking to the beeb pre-match and says the young make-up of this side is testament to the strides made in the schools and academy system up north. The teams have just emerged from the tunnel.

No changes from either side named yesterday.

19.21 – Another good rise and catch from Allen. The wing collected under a bit of pressure on the up and under and after he was joined for a maul, it collapsed and Warriors were pinged for holding onto him on the ground.

In attacking territory, Nick Williams gets ball-in-hand again and forces a penalty as Gillies is spotted going in from the side.

The kick will fall to Niall O’Connor, his 10th minute introduction comes as Paddy Jackson hobbles off injured. Ulster lead 3-0.

19.24 – After the restart, Michael Heaney shows the nerves of a debutant, dropping a straight-forward kick 35 metres from his own line. Glasgow waste the opportunity, Weir reaching over his head to collect the pass and knocking on.

19.30 – The boys at WOC voice the frustration:

Craig Gilroy, the most experienced member of the back division, took his life in his hands there. Rather than let a kick bounce out to touch, he knocked it back in play with his foot and needed to be at full stretch to keep the on-rushing blue jersey from claiming an easy seven.

19.35 – Glasgow look like they should be dominating this game, but it keeps breaking down when it goes through Weir. On this occasion Jared Payne and Craig Gilroy are the most alert and force another penalty for holding on.

The kick brings Ulster to the five-metre line and after three phases they looked ready to grab the first try of the season, but as Williams tried to wrestled the ball through the tackle it spun loose.

19.39 – Yet again the visitors are deemed guilty of going off their feet after a solid hit by Morrison on Diack. O’Connor should have given Ulster the lead again, but his kick, solidly struck, was rammed against the right-hand upright.

19.45 – The penalties keep on coming in Ulster’s favour. Good thing the line-out’s going well. The hosts are currently mauling their way west.

19.59 – HALF TIME: Ulster 8 – 3 Warriors

The game appears to have come too soon for O’Connor and his confidence is now pretty much shot. He has missed three kicks in a row now, the latest was the most difficult of them, but it still amounts to eight points left wanting.

warriors rumbled up the middle of the field in the remaining minute and Weir took aim at a drop-goal from 28 or 29 metres. He dragged it left.

Not the greatest half of rugby and both sides will find plenty to improve on, but the performane of Nick Williams will please Anscombe, he’s been a force of nature.

20.12 – The sides are out and O’Connor gets the second half underway. Chris Cusiter is ont he field for Glasgow, a necessary change. Pyrgos’ distribution was fairly woeful.

As Ulster pack down for a scrum in attacking territory i’ll bring you news from the night’s other games.

Dragons lead Zebre 34-6 at Rodney Parade, that one started at 7pm. In Italy, Treviso hold a 12-3 lead over the reigning champions, the Ospreys. Will the northerners claim another scalp on home soil?

20.15 – TRY: Ulster 15 – 3 Warriors (Gilroy ’44)

It’s an intercept for Ulster’s most potent weapon. An awful pass from Weir on the edge of Ulster’s 22, had Gilroy not intercepted it Chris Farrell may well have done.

No mistake from O’Connor from in front of the posts.

20.18 – So a try from both wings for the home side tonight, good news for both of them when you consider Tommy Bowe and Andrew Trimble have yet to come into this side.

20.26 – Another promising phase of play for Ulster, they get Craig Gilroy flying into space on the left wing. All good things come to an end, however, some with a knock on. But Glasgow engage the scrum early and Ulster now have the ball 30 metres from the line.

20.40 – TRY: Ulster 15 – 10 Glasgow (Seymour ’68)

Credit Jackson for finally injecting some invention into this game. The replacement 10 spun the ball wide to the right after his pack had trundled up to half way.

Waiting on the wing was former Ulsterman Tommy Seymour and he showed a superb burst of speed and then a step to wrong-foot Allen. Jackson nailed the conversion and all-of-a-sudden, it’s game on.

20.55 – Bizarre. It looks like Tom Court thought time was up and sent the ball out of play, but the clock hadn’t yet turned red and so Warriors were allowed take the line-out. A chip-through is charged down and Darren Cave does brilliantly to regain possession with a timely intervention from his toe.

20.58 – FULL TIME: Ulster 18 – 10 Glasgow

There’ll be no third try for Ulster. The games ends, fittingly, in scrappy fashion, but four points are the commodity Mark Anscombe came looking for and that’s what he has found. Denying Glasgow a bonus point may well prove valuable at the end of the season.

That’s it from me folks. Thanks for coming in and S(tanding)UFTUM on this Friday night marking the return of rugby.