Duncan Weir has praised his Glasgow Warriors teammates for their narrow URC victory over Connacht on Sunday in “horrible” conditions.

33-year-old Weir led out the team as captain for the first time in their 22-19 victory and insists that the Warriors learnt from their “hard loss” against Harlequins last weekend.

“I think after last week, it was a hard loss. We played well in certain areas of our game, but we missed some opportunities,” said Weir.

“I think our endeavour to try and play good positive rugby was there.

“Even tonight, the conditions were horrible and cold, but we came into this game with the right mindset of playing the Glasgow way and we definitely did that in tonight’s game.

“I’m just really proud of the boys’ efforts.

“For guys that maybe don’t get a lot of opportunities, to maybe go and front up, and win a really tight game against a quality opposition.

“It’s huge for the club and it’s huge for their morale, we will have some time off, and that time off will be a lovely big cheeser on our face which is always nice.”