Try-scorer
Falcons' efforts praised
Try-scorer
By Leipziger
January 3 2009
While the result today was a little embarrassing, we can be proud of the effort they put in at the Madejski Stadium against a world-class side who are in with a real chance of winning the Guinness Premiership. London Irish may have out-scored us but we certainly weren't out-tried, and we'll look to continue this for the rest of the season.
Try-scorer
January 3 2009
While the result today was a little embarrassing, we can be proud of the effort they put in at the Madejski Stadium against a world-class side who are in with a real chance of winning the Guinness Premiership. London Irish may have out-scored us but we certainly weren't out-tried, and we'll look to continue this for the rest of the season.
We were unlucky not to score in the opening few minutes, then lost the first score to an unfortunate error as Ojo caught a pass and nobody catches him once he's away.
The referee didn't help our cause, missing a few high tackles and forward passes, but it's up to us to learn how to play referees, and to be honest we didn't know a lot about this French referee so couldn't really study how he applies the laws this week.
The second try was a freak, a lineout move we should have been prepared for but weren't and Steffon Armitage probably couldn't believe his luck that he was unopposed five metres out.
Although we didn't really threaten too much in the 22, our back play was nice and we are gelling behind the scrum, Tane Tu'ipulotu is really starting to show his class and he and Noonie will soon be a very potent force.
Hewat's try was also one we should have defended, and his kicking was also a problem as he is excellent with the boot.
Despite being 29-3 down at half time, there are still positives to be found.
We were obviously much better in the second half, only conceding one try to Alex Corbisiero in the first 20 minutes or so before Micky Young got sin-binned, which had a major effect on the game as we had to re-jig the backline just as Steve Jones was coming on.
Mike Catt's try was just pure bad luck, with us losing the ball on the right, and how often is he going to out-sprint someone to score?
We finally got some luck with Tim Visser's score, which proves we can score tries the top sides, and had we been a little quicker moving up we could have forced another score as they passed in the in-goal area.
And by the time Mapusua scored the seventh, it didn't really matter anymore.
We will study the video of this game, identify what went wrong, take away the positives and move onto Gloucester next week.
Above all though, I've seen enough today to know we can stay up.
There, I've just saved you all the bother of reading Steve Bates' comments on the offy. Heaven help us.
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Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: FalconsRugby.org.uk (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 19:57
What do you think? You can have your say by posting below.
Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: Mally (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 19:59
I thought you were delusional till I got to the last line!!!!
Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: the moz (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 19:59
Blimey. I thought that was YOUR match report for a second!
Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: TouchLine (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 20:09
Are you GSI in disguise?
Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: Leipziger (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 20:09
I toyed with not writing a report at all, writing 250 characters of rubbish and nothing else, or just ranting for a few paragraphs and not mentioning the details of the game. I decided this was the best way to get rid of some of the anger from the latest debacle.
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Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: maccafan (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 20:12
Makes that trip to the Madjetski a few Christmas's ago when Mark Wilko played 10, and we were lucky to get nil,seem like a good day out.
Re: Falcons' efforts praised
Posted by: DGNTR (IP Logged)
Date: 03/01/2009 20:40
Blimey, even Leipy has ran out of happy pills, what next? Thumper on the wing? Oh, hang on, that happens regularly. And hang on, he'd do better than Rudd, so yes please.
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