Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Aviva Premiership Round 3 Round – Up



Gloucester Rugby 22 – 25 Exeter Chiefs

Exeter went home with a narrow win against West Country rivals Gloucester in the Friday night game.

The Cherry and Whites took advantage of Chiefs winger Ian Whitten being in the sin bin as Jonny May chipped the ball and score the first try of the game and the second came from Dan Murphy who finished a driving maul from a lineout on Exeters 5 metre line.

The visitors replied from four penalties from the boot of inform fly – half Gareth Steenson, who brought the game level, however, before half time Ben White got Exeter their first try of the evening and gave the Chiefs the lead.

After the break long range specialist Henry Slade extended the away sides lead with two monster penalties. After Matt Kvesic was yellow carded Gooucester fought back and with 15 minutes to go they out Exeter’s 13 point lead to shreds.

Sione Kalamafoni surged over and with James Hook’s conversion and penalty shorted the Chiefs lead to just three points, but Rob Baxters men went home with the win.

Scorers
Gloucester Rugby
Tries – May, Murphy, Kalamafoni
Conversions – Laidlaw, Hook
Penalties – Hook

Exeter Chiefs
Tries – White
Conversions – Steenson
Penalties – Steenson (4), Slade (2)


Sale Sharks 46 – 8 London Welsh

A hat – trick from Tom Arscott made sure London Welsh went home with another massive defeat.

Arscott got his and Sale’s first try of the day within three minutes, then prop Vadim Cobilas bundled
over the line with Danny Cipriani conversion and penalty made sure the Sharks went 12 – 3 up at half time.

In the second half Welsh got back into the game as centre Nic Reynolds scored in the corner and it looked like they learned from the positives of last weeks hammering at Bath. However, with 15
minutes to go Welsh completely collapsed as a basic training ground move opened them up
with winger Arscott getting his second try of the game.

Sale smelt blood and the Sharks attacked and secured the bonus point try as Arscott set up his fellow
winger Tom Brady to score and after the poor restart, lock Michael Paterson sliced his way past Welsh’s sloppy and poor defending and after a few more phases Arscott got this hat – trick.

In the final minute replacement second row Andrei Ostrikov ran past the defence and set up fullback
Luke McLean to score.

At least London Welsh didn’t concede 50 points!

Scorers
Sale Sharks
Tries – Arscott (3), Cobilas, Brady, McLean
Conversion – Cipriani (3), Ford (2)
Penalties – Cipriani (2)

London Welsh
Tries – Reynolds
Penalties – Barkley


Harlequins 26 – 23 Wasps

Harlequins made sure last week's defeat to Saracens didn’t happen again as they beat a Wasps side,
hoping to improve on their win against Northampton.

Wasps started the brightest with a try from Guy Thompson but was cancelled out by three penalty kicks
from Ben Botica. After the break Danny Care’s chip into the Wasps try area, but winger Christan Wade fumbled the ball and flanker Chris Robshaw scored to give Quins the lead.

More confusion in the Wasps defence as Botica chipped the ball and as he was able to collect Kearnan
Myall tripped the fly – half over and the sent Myall to the sin bin and awarded the penalty try to the home side.

After Danny Care’s clever drop goal extended the lead further for Quins but Wasps hit back as Joe
Simpson set up Tom Varndell. The visitors cut the lead shorter with four minutes to go Thomas Young, son of head coach Dai, went over from a driving maul but sadly it wasn’t enough.

Scorer
Harlequins
Tries – Robshaw, Penalty
Conversions – Botica (2)
Penalties –Botica (3)
Drop Goals – Care

Wasps
Tries – Thompson, Varndell, Young
Conversions – Goode
Penalties – Goode

London Irish 32 – 26 Saracens

Saracens needed the 80th minute to stop a spirited London Irish with Alex Lewington scoring a hat trick to claim a well deserved victory.

The visitors looked to continue from last weeks hammering they gave Harlequins as Tim Streather scored within 48 seconds, but Irish hit back with centre Shane Geraghty continuing his good form to set up Blair Cowan to score their first try of the game.

Scrum – half Richard Wigglesworth extended Saracens lead to 20 – 7. Yet again Irish weren’t giving up as Chris Noakes crossfield kick found Lewington who side stepped and scored his first try of the game.

Lewington did it again as the winger collected scrum – half Scott Steele’s well placed grubber kick to score his second try in four minutes.

Even though Owen Farrells penalty extended Saracens lead, however Irish and Lewington fought back as Steele assisted again as the 23 year old winger out paced three Sarries defenders to finish off his hat trick as Irish led for the first time of the game.

The Exiles had a three point lead going into the final minute and after they ignored going for the penalty and the draw Saracens went for the lineout and from the driving maul Billy Vunipola grounded the ball and his try secured the win for the visitors.

Scorers
London Irish
Tries – Cowan, Lewington (3)
Conversions – Geraghty (3)
Penalties – Geraghty (2)

Saracens
Tries – Streather, Wigglesworth, Vunipola
Conversions – Farrell (2), Goode
Penalties – Farrell (3), Goode (2)

Bath Rugby 45 – 0 Leicester Tigers

Full match report – http://donttouchtheball.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/leicester-need-to-have-cold-shower.html

Newcastle Falcons 10 – 35 Northampton Saints

Saints rounded off the weekend with a much needed win to boost confidence before next week's clash against Bath.

The Champions got their first try from England U20’s fly – half Will Hooley, who scored in the fourth minute and they kept the pressure on after Hooley scored a penalty, prop Alex Waller finished off a a brilliant counter attacking move which involved George North, Samu Manoa and Kahn Fotuali’l to give Northampton an 18 – 0 lead with just 16 minutes played.

Their third try came from Ken Pisi who had a simple run under the posts after two quick passes from Manoa and Fotuali’l.

Newcastle improved in the second half, but didn’t show any threat until the 70th minute as a quick tip and go from Will Welch to pass to Kieran Brookes to set up Noah Cato to score. With three minutes to go the Saints went and secured the bonus point win with North scoring in the corner.

Scorers
Newcastle Falcons
Tries – Cato
Conversions – Socino
Penalties – Socino

Northampton Saints
Tries – Hooley, Waller, K Pisi, North
Conversions – Hooley (2), Wilson
Penalties – Hooley (3)

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