Due to the flooding of its grass pitch, an artificial turf surface was installed at Scotstoun Stadium.

[1] The SRU named Townsend's successor, Dave Rennie (New Zealand head coach of the Super Rugby Chiefs), two days later.

The Warriors missed a Pro12 play-off place for the first time, and the Autumn International and Six Nations Championship were particularly challenging.

You pay a price for that eventually.Although the Warriors won the 1872 Cup, they lost their home match to Edinburgh for the first time.

During Gregor Townsend's five-year tenure with the Warriors, he guided the team to the 2014-15 Pro12 title and a European Champions Cup quarter-final for the first time in 2016–17.

I think we expect to go out and win every game we play now, so we’ve certainly moved on.Hookers Fraser Brown Corey Flynn Pat MacArthur James Malcolm Props Alex Allan Zander Fagerson Jarrod Firth Ryan Grant Sila Puafisi D'Arcy Rae Gordon Reid Djustice Sears-Duru Locks Brian Alainu'uese Scott Cummings Jonny Gray Greg Peterson Tim Swinson Tjiuee Uanivi Loose forwards Adam Ashe Hugh Blake Simone Favaro Chris Fusaro Rob Harley Langilangi Haupeakui Ruaridh MacKenzie Matt Smith Josh Strauss Ryan Wilson Lewis Wynne Scrum halves Grayson Hart Nemia Kenatale Ali Price Henry Pyrgos Fly halves Rory Clegg Finn Russell Hagen Schulte Brandon Thomson Centres Mark Bennett Alex Dunbar Nick Grigg Peter Horne Sam Johnson Fraser Lyle Richie Vernon Back three Junior Bulumakau Rory Hughes Lee Jones Sean Lamont Tommy Seymour Stuart Hogg Peter Murchie Leonardo Sarto Ratu Tagive Scottish Rugby Academy players assigned to a professional club were Stage 3 players.

Jack Clifford Replacements from Dave Ward, Cameron Holenstein, Will Collier, George Merrick, Charlie Matthews, Mat Luamanu, Charlie Mulchrone,Ruaridh Jackson, Jonas Mikalcius, Winston Stanley, James Chisholm[44]

Lewis WynneReplacements (all used): Alex Dunbar, Ali Price, Callum Hunter-Hill, Djustice Sears-Duru, Hagen Schulte, Junior Bulumakau, Pat MacArthur, Richie Vernon, Tjiuee Uanivi and Zander Fagerson.

Ben Morgan Replacements from Darren Dawidiuk, Paddy McAllister, Paul Doran-Jones; Tom Denton; Lewis Ludlow, Callum Braley, James Hook; Mark Atkinson, Alex Craig, Dan Thomas, Andy Symons, Gareth Evans, Elliott Creed, Lloyd Evans, David Halaifonua, Charlie Beckett

Ryan Wilson Replacements: (used:) Ryan Grant, Pat MacArthur, Sila Puafisi, Tim Swinson, Tjiuee Uanivi, Simone Favaro, Lewis Wynne, Ali Price, Rory Clegg, Richie Vernon, Fraser Lyle, (unused:) D'Arcy Rae, Grayson Hart

Glasgow Warriors: Peter Murchie (C), Junior Bulumakau (Robert Beattie, 41), Nick Grigg (Patrick Kelly*, 44), Fraser Lyle (Patrick Kelly*, 41–43), Lee Jones (rep:Rory Hughes, 41); Hagen Schulte (Josh Henderson*, 61), Nemia Kenatale (George Horne*, 7); Alex Allan (Rep: Jamie Bhatti, 49), James Malcolm (Cameron Fenton*, 41), D'Arcy Rae (Jarrod Firth, 49), Sam Thomson, Greg Peterson (Kiran McDonald, 49), Callum Hunter-Hill* (Shaun MacDonald, 41), Matt Fagerson*, Peter McCallum (Alex Taylor, 41).

Canada A: J Wilson-Ross (James Bay D Joyce, Dublin University, 68); K Lloyd (Mississauga Blues), M Samson (Calgary Saints, D Fraser, Ladysmith, 55), P Parfrey (Swilers), D Moor (Balmy Beach, S Hayward, Sydney, 68); R Povey (Bedford, G du Toit, UVIC Vikes, 30), G McRorie (Calgary Hornets, A McMullan, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 70); D Sears-Duru (Glasgow Warriors, A Luca, Burnaby Lake, 61), E Howard (Brantford Harlequins, A Mascott, UBC Thunderbirds, 38–41), R Kotlewski (Calgary Saints, C McClary, Port Alberni, 57), C Keys (UVic Vikes), K Baillie (Ohio, A Wadden, Oakville Crusaders, 63), A Cejvanovic (Burnaby Lake), N Dala (Castaway Wanderers, M Heaton, Darlington Mowden Park, 49), T Larsen.

The Warriors were eager for the match, and secured a try bonus victory at Galway Sportgrounds; Peter Horne later said, "I think that really told when we finally played them in the first game of the season and hammered them.

[51] Finn Russell, back from his freak injury in the end-of-season match against Connacht, started against Ulster.

Another three Warriors were also asked to train with the Scotland squad: Ali Price, Nick Grigg and Rory Hughes.

[56] A rapidly-growing injury list which sidelined Leonardo Sarto, Richie Vernon, Ryan Grant, Adam Ashe, Greg Peterson, Scott Cummings, Tjiuee Uanivi and Chris Fusaro also tested the Warriors' depth.

Strength and depth again became an issue; three successive losses to Scarlets, Ulster and Ospreys left Glasgow Warriors trailing those teams battling in the play-off hunt.

Wins against Newport Gwent Dragons, Connacht and Zebre[64] were a belated challenge for a top-four place, but losses to Munster[65] and Leinster ended Glasgow's play-off hopes.

The Leinster defeat, on 28 April 2017, cost the Warriors its record as the only team which had qualified for a top-four place every year since the Pro12 began in 2011–12.

[67] The Warriors' seventh 1872 Cup win was bittersweet, as it was Gregor Townsend's last match with the Glasgow side.

They were drawn against the previous year's finalists Racing 92 and past winners Munster and Leicester Tigers.

Racing 92 had New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter and former Glasgow Warrior favourite Leone Nakarawa in their ranks; Glasgow side crushed the French side in Paris, however, with Townsend describing the victory as the second-best of his Warriors coaching career (after the 2014-15 Pro12 final against Munster).

[81] A home tie proved the Paris result no fluke, as another special night at Scotstoun saw the Warriors dominate Racing.

In particular, Finn Russell's outplaying of Dan Carter in back-to-back matches thrust the Scotland fly-half into Lions contention.

He’s started at Scotland at stand-off for the last two-and-a-half years so even though British & Irish rugby is full of quality players, I expect him to be in the mix.

The Warriors were the first Scottish team to defeat Leicester at home since the Fettesian-Lorettonian Club managed it 112 years before,[84] when they won by a try to nil on 28 December 1905[85] with Jobson scoring the three points.

Still 6,000 Warriors fans went to London, however, and provided the Aviva Premiership team with their largest home attendance at Allianz Park.

[87] The first half was tighter than expected; a few attempted tries by Saracens were ruled out for infringements, but the London club led.

A missed kick to touch by Finn Russell to consolidate Warrior pressure into a lead was the turning point of the match, however, and the Saracens began running in tries.

[7] Despite the loss, the Warrior Nation made many friends and Glasgow were now firmly on the European rugby map.