Harlequins 0 – 39 Saracens
It was Friday fright night at the Stoop as the Charlie
Hodgson came to town and scored 22 points.
It started so well as a fantastic last man tackle from Mike
Brown stopped a brilliant move by Saracens and after a couple of penalties from
Hodgson it was chargedown Charlie came to get the first try of the match
stopping Nick Evans’ kick for a simply run under the posts.
After the half Sarries continued their dominance with two more
penalties from the veteran fly half and fullback Alex Goode also added from his
boot. It was only time till the away side got their second try of the game
after a fumble from Quins was kicked away with winger Chris Ashton flying down
the flank to beat Marland Yarde to score for Saracens.
Will Fraser got the final try late on from a rolling maul to
end the nightmare for Harlequins.
Scorers
Saracens –
Tries – Hodgson, Ashton, Fraser
Conversions – Hodgson, Farrell 2
Penalties – Hodgson 5, Goode
Bath Rugby 53 – 26 London Welsh
London Welsh looked to have continued from last weeks
hammering by conceding another 50 points the only up side is they got their
first point of the season.
Debutant Chris Cook kicked off the scorefest at The Rec with
his first ever Aviva Premiership try after just one minute.
Welsh did reply quickly with Pete Browne getting the first
points on the scoreboard for the Exiles and tries from Semesa Rokoduguni and
Jonathan Joseph for Bath while Seb Stegmann scored for Welsh before the half.
Bath got the bonus point after half time with Leroy Houston scores,
however the visitors came straight back with Stegmann making a great break from
his own 5 metre line with fullback Seb Jewell racing though a gap to touch
down.
Welsh tried to break from their own half again, but
Rokoduguni intercepted to score his second of the game.
Then an overthrown lineout was picked up by Lachlan
McCaffrey to score his first try in England and gave London Welsh their first
points of the campaign, but it was Bath who finished the stronger with Joseph getting
his second try of the game and Carl Fearns finished things off.
Scorers
Bath Rugby –
Tries – Cook, Rokoduguni (2), Joseph (2), Houston, Fearns
Conversion – Ford 6
Penalties – Ford 2
London Welsh
– Tries – Browne, Stegmann, Jewell, McCaffrey
Conversion – Barkley 3
Gloucester Rugby 34 – 27 Sale Sharks
After the horrors of last weeks game against Northampton
Saints, Gloucester gave their fans something to cheer about narrowly beating
Sale at home.
It didn’t start too well for Gloucester as Danny Cipriani
tore open the Cherry and White’s defence with Tom Arscott scoring in the first
minute.
Cipriani was at it again with a chip – and – collect over the
defence and his run opened a big gap for scrum half Chris Cusiter who got through
Charlie Sharples and James Hooks tackle to score his first try for Sale. Once again
Cipriani was involved as it was his smart tap – and – go and quick pass to Tom
Brady, who popped the ball to Luke McLean who scored in the corner.
After the half Gloucester came to life and after Greig
Laidlaw scored his fourth penalty of the game, Jonny May got the opening try of
their season.
Cipriani put Sale back into the lead, but after the hour
mark the home side went regained the lead with May turning provider passing the
ball to Rob Cook, who scored in the corner and once they score a penalty try
Gloucester put the result all but beyond doubt.
Cipriani did finish off his brilliant afternoon with a solo
try.
Scorers
Gloucester
Rugby – Tries – May, Cook, Penalty
Conversion – Laidlaw 2
Penalties – Laidlaw 5
Sale Shark –
Tries – Arscott, Cusiter, McLean, Cipriani
Conversion – Cipriani 2
Penalties – Cipriani
Exeter Chiefs 20 – 24 Leicester Tigers
Leicester was only able to edge pass a strong looking Exeter
Chiefs.
Once the Tigers were reduced to 14 men with Vereniki Goneva
sent to the sin bin for a high tackle the Chiefs made the extra man count with
Dave Ewers scoring his second of the season.
The visitors replied with a brilliant grubber kick from Freddie
Burns to Anthony Allen to score in his first game of the season.
Haydn Thomas gave the Chiefs the lead again after some pick –
and – goes the scrum half found a little gap to score.
After Gareth Steenson and Burns exchanged penalties and even
though scrum half Ben Young did get a try for the Tigers it did look like
Steenson might of won it for the Chiefs but Owen Williams got the killer blow
with his penalty.
Scorers
Exeter
Chiefs – Tries –Ewers, Thomas
Conversions – Steenson 2
Penalties – Steenson 2
Leicester
Tigers – Tries – Allen, Youngs
Conversions – Burns
Penalties Burns 3, Williams
Wasps 20 – 16 Northampton Saints
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- http://donttouchtheball.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/wasps-20-16-northampton-saints.html
Newcastle Falcons 18 – 20 London Irish
Newcastle’s first Aviva Premiership match on their new 3G pitch
will be one to forget losing narrowly to Irish.
Joshua Furno scored the first points of the match with a
strong driving maul from the Falcons and a couple of Shane Geraghty gave the
Exiles the lead into half time.
After the half centre Fergus Mulchrone got the first try of
London Irish’s season however the Falcons got back into the game with Irish
going down to 14 men with Tom Court sin-binned it was another driving maul was
finished off by Scott Wilson.
The killer blow came after the hour mark with fullback Andy Fenby
scoring after some great passing by the away side. However, there was some late
drama at Kingston Park with Juan Pablo Socino scoring a penalty and a try from
Sinoti Sinoti got the score back down to just two points.
If Socino scored his conversion he could give the Falcons a draw,
but it hit the post which left Irish going home with a narrow win.
Scorers
Newcastle
Falcons – Tries – Furno, Wilson, Sinoti
Penalties – Socino
London Irish
– Tries – Mulchrone, Fenby
Conversions – Geraghty (2)
Penalties – Geraghty (2)
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