• Harlequins 24-7 Glasgow
• Cunningham-South scores first of three Quins tries

A Champions Cup of modest returns for the English was at least given a fillip by Quins. This reasonably comfortable win over Glasgow across the road from where the Calcutta Cup will be contested next month put the home team through to the last 16. No one will particularly relish a visit from one of the game’s more waspish teams, but it is fair to say any further progress will require an improvement on this.

Glasgow, champions of the United Rugby Championship, no less, were not quite there all evening. Perhaps they were thrown by loss of Sione Tuipulotu to an injury this week in training, which threatens his participation in Scotland’s Six Nations campaign. They scored an absolute beauty in the first half, as waspish a side as Quins, but they could not rouse themselves to score again.