Logan: Club success will benefit national team

Kenny Logan insists he will end his career with Glasgow Warriors but he is also determined to hand the Scotland team a boost before finally hanging up his boots.

The 32-year-old has returned to his homeland following seven successful years with London Wasps and was unveiled today as the newest member of Glasgow’s 27-man squad for the new season.

The winger was one of several high-profile players who retired from the Scotland national team following the World Cup last autumn and he has no plans to return to the international stage.

But Logan hopes he can help transform Glasgow Warriors from a side struggling at the wrong end of the Celtic League table to a side challenging for honours.

And he believes success for the three provincial clubs – Glasgow, Edinburgh and Borders – can only be good news for Scotland boss Matt Williams.

Logan said: “I‘ll definitely end my career at Glasgow. I won‘t play after this.

“I always feel it‘s important to be in the right place at the right time and I didn‘t want to come up here when I wasn‘t ready to come back.

“I want to be in Glasgow and playing for Glasgow and I won‘t be moving again after this.”

He added: “We (Scotland) have blooded a lot of new players. There were five players in the 22 who played against Australia in the World Cup so there are 17 players there who have been brought in and they didn‘t disgrace themselves.

“They did very well and I think we‘ve definitely turned the corner.

“The Six Nations was hard because we lost a lot of experience – myself, Gregor Townsend, Glenn Metcalfe, Brian Redpath, John McLaren.

“We lost six or seven players through retirement and any team who loses that is going to struggle and we did struggle.

“But Matt Williams seems to be putting the team in the right direction and it‘s an exciting time for Scottish rugby.

“The key thing for Matt Williams is the three teams winning because when you get that winning mentality in the club sides, you get it in the national team.”

Logan has revealed he could have returned to Scotland as an Edinburgh player but insists the decision to join his former club was an easy choice to make.

The winger said: “I‘ve always said that I want to put something back into the game up here and I feel what I‘ve learned at Wasps over the last seven years and the success I‘ve had means I can give Glasgow and the coaches some experience.

“There was some suggestion of Edinburgh but the SRU asked who I wanted to play for – Edinburgh or Glasgow – and I told them I wanted to play for Glasgow.

“I played for Glasgow before and they have real potential – Glasgow people are really into their rugby and they have a good support.

“The decision was quite easy in the end.”

Seven years with Wasps means Logan has become used to success and he admits becoming the underdog next season will take some getting used to.

He said: “It‘s going to be hard. There is no doubt that it‘s not going to be an easy task.

“The worst streak I had was losing five games in a row and we came second in the league that year.

“We should be winning 90% of our home games. If we win our home games then we‘ll be up there near the top of the league.

“There aren’t many clubs in the Celtic League who are winning all their home and away games so we have to set little targets and try to be the best team in Scotland.”