The SRU's Director of Rugby Jim Telfer stated that he was keen for the Glasgow players to experience different styles of coaching in bringing in Searancke.
A good few of the players were out of condition and two Scotland international forwards laboured on a 3 km run in Dalziel Country Park.
The professional players had previously been given a fitness programme to follow in the close season in an effort to match Super12 physical standards.
Yet Searancke often blamed himself rather than the players; lamenting on a poor decision by Gordon Bulloch which cost Glasgow the game against Ulster he said "It boiled down to the fact that we had not discussed the scoring permutations and the tie-break situation.
[6] However in his autobiography 'Looking back... for once' he states that he regretted the sacking as Searancke identified limitations in terms of the players' standards and their ability to push themselves to the levels required to be consistently competitive.
[7] Searancke left Glasgow Warriors on 1 April 2003 and shortly afterwards got a job back in New Zealand coaching Poverty Bay rugby club.