The Warriors boss has made just one change from the side who defeated Cardiff Blues 21-5 last weekend.

Chris Cusiter replaces Colin Gregor at scrum-half having recovered sufficiently from the flu bug that has affected the majority of the squad over the past few weeks.

Lineen said: “This is the first time during my time here that we’ve had a home start and we need to make it count.

“When in such an intense European competition the crowd can make a huge difference.

“This is Europe. We need to start well instead of making a cameo appearance later in the competition.

“The players have shown a fantastic work ethic for each other over the past two weeks and showed great character to win against a Cardiff side last weekend with five British Lions in it.

“The Biarritz team will contain some world-class players but there are now a number of Glasgow players hitting great form and this should be a good indicator of where they are, especially as most of them will be targeting a place in the Scotland squad ahead of November’s Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Tests.”