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Glasgow v Connacht</div>
Thom Evans has followed brother Max by pulling out of Glasgow Warriors' Magners League meeting with Connacht on Friday through injury.
A calf tweak means Colin Shaw replaces Thom, while Hefin O'Hare comes in for knee ligament victim Max.
Colin Gregor, Kevin Tkachuk and James Eddie come in, while Calum Forrester and Kelly Brown switch positions.
Connacht make one change, with hooker Adrian Flavin coming into the side in place of Sean Cronin.
Cronin, one of five Connacht players this week called into the Irish senior squad for the summer tour to Canada and the United States, reverts to the replacements.
Academy player Conor Higgins, a promising 20-year old prop from Shannonbridge in Offaly, is included among the replacements.
Glasgow coach Sean Lineen had delayed naming his side after a spate of injuries, with eight players, including five Scotland internationals, receiving treatment ahead of the clash at Firhill.
Max Evans, injured in the defeat by Ospreys, and lock Tim Barker were definitely out, while John Barclay, Johnnie Beattie, Dougie Hall, Ed Kalman, Sam Pinder and Richie Vernon were all rated doubtful and failed to make the team.
Gregor is promoted to the starting scrum-half berth, while, in the pack, prop Tkachuk is preferred to Jon Welsh and young lock Richie Gray is handed his first start on home soil.
In the back-row, Eddie returns in place of Opeta Palepoi at blindside flanker and Brown switches with Forrester to line-up at openside and number eight respectively.
Lineen said: "For us, this is the biggest game of the season and it's important we finish this season with a win in front of a home crowd.
"Looking to the future, I'm really excited by the young players coming through and the attitude and enthusiasm they've brought to the team."
Glasgow: B Stortoni, L Fa'atau, H O'Hare, G Morrison, C Shaw, R Jackson, C Gregor, K Tkachuk, F Thomson, M Low, R Gray, A Kellock (capt), J Eddie, K Brown, C Forrester.
Replacements: P MacArthur, J Welsh, D Turner, S Swindall, M McMillan, P Horne, J Maria Nunez Piossek.
Connacht: T Nathan, F Carr, G Duffy, K Matthews, L Bibo, I Keatley, F Murphy; B Wilkinson, A Flavin, R Loughney; M Swift, A Farley; A Browne, R Ofisa, J Muldoon (cpt).
Replacements: S Cronin, C Higgins, D Gannon, C Rigney, C O'Loughlin, A Dunne, M Deane.
BBC Sport
Glasgow v Connacht</div>
Thom Evans has followed brother Max by pulling out of Glasgow Warriors' Magners League meeting with Connacht on Friday through injury.
A calf tweak means Colin Shaw replaces Thom, while Hefin O'Hare comes in for knee ligament victim Max.
Colin Gregor, Kevin Tkachuk and James Eddie come in, while Calum Forrester and Kelly Brown switch positions.
Connacht make one change, with hooker Adrian Flavin coming into the side in place of Sean Cronin.
Cronin, one of five Connacht players this week called into the Irish senior squad for the summer tour to Canada and the United States, reverts to the replacements.
Academy player Conor Higgins, a promising 20-year old prop from Shannonbridge in Offaly, is included among the replacements.
Glasgow coach Sean Lineen had delayed naming his side after a spate of injuries, with eight players, including five Scotland internationals, receiving treatment ahead of the clash at Firhill.
Max Evans, injured in the defeat by Ospreys, and lock Tim Barker were definitely out, while John Barclay, Johnnie Beattie, Dougie Hall, Ed Kalman, Sam Pinder and Richie Vernon were all rated doubtful and failed to make the team.
Gregor is promoted to the starting scrum-half berth, while, in the pack, prop Tkachuk is preferred to Jon Welsh and young lock Richie Gray is handed his first start on home soil.
In the back-row, Eddie returns in place of Opeta Palepoi at blindside flanker and Brown switches with Forrester to line-up at openside and number eight respectively.
Lineen said: "For us, this is the biggest game of the season and it's important we finish this season with a win in front of a home crowd.
"Looking to the future, I'm really excited by the young players coming through and the attitude and enthusiasm they've brought to the team."
Glasgow: B Stortoni, L Fa'atau, H O'Hare, G Morrison, C Shaw, R Jackson, C Gregor, K Tkachuk, F Thomson, M Low, R Gray, A Kellock (capt), J Eddie, K Brown, C Forrester.
Replacements: P MacArthur, J Welsh, D Turner, S Swindall, M McMillan, P Horne, J Maria Nunez Piossek.
Connacht: T Nathan, F Carr, G Duffy, K Matthews, L Bibo, I Keatley, F Murphy; B Wilkinson, A Flavin, R Loughney; M Swift, A Farley; A Browne, R Ofisa, J Muldoon (cpt).
Replacements: S Cronin, C Higgins, D Gannon, C Rigney, C O'Loughlin, A Dunne, M Deane.
BBC Sport
