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Welsh v Albion
Saturday 19 April
K.O. pm

 Albion squad as announced on the This is Plymouth website

Tim

James

Scott

Jannie

Colin

Tom

Mike

Kyle

Nigel

Ross

Nic

Keni

Arran

Ed

Nat

Bench from

Darren

Emyr

Daniel

Gareth

Richard

Brett

Chris

Adam

Graham

Tom

Well we are nearly at the end of the season and only two matches left to play. London Welsh away and the final match of the season we play hosts to Newbury. Both matches are winnable but then again so have the majority of the matches Albion have played this season. 

London Welsh have won 5 of their last 7 league matches against Albion's going 7 away matches without a win. Of the last 5 meetings Albion have won the lot and last season put in their best away performance in league rugby but who knows this season.

Albion have a far better discipline record this season with no red cards 13 yellows and 33 penalties converted into 3 points.  This is against LW's 1 red, equal highest with Titans 23 yellows and 42 penalties converted into 3 points against them. 

At the beginning of the season most independents would have put this down for an easy away win. But with the hosts using loan players they have been doing far better than Albion and now sit above them in the league table.

Albion are on a high after the draw two weeks ago at Camborne, again a match that could have been won.

Check out the predictions for final positions in the league predicted two weeks ago.

National League One Data

This table shows the for and against for each team. eg Tries 74/17 is 74 tries scored and 17 conceded. Con Rate is the percentage tries converted.

Side by Side performance
Gate 968avg 2400max	Gate 3329avg 6381max
Form home w l w l w w l l w l l l w w away w l w w l w l l w l l w l l	Form home l w l l l w l w w w l w w l away d l l l l l l w w l l l w w
Best home game 38 - 0 All Blacks Best away game Titans 3 - 17	Best home game 50 - 7 All Blacks Best away game Bees 11 - 35
Worst home game 10 - 40 Moseley Worst away game Chiefs 53 - 5	Worst home game 5 - 44 Saints Worst away game Nott'ham 31 - 9
Most points in a match 15 Mathew Jones Welsh 25 - 26 TitansMost tries in a match 2 Allen Chiltern Welsh 25 - 26 Titans Greg Evans Welsh 12 - 31 Chiefs Wame Lewaravu Welsh 38 - 0 All Blacks Richard Martin Redman Welsh 17 - 20 Pirates Paul Sampson Tigers 18 - 24 Welsh Welsh 33 - 29 Cov	Most points in a match 15 Brad Davies Albion 25 - 19 Tigers Ross Laidlaw Bees 11 - 35 Albion Albion 15 - 0 Titans Most tries in a match 2 Liam Gibson Albion 50 - 7 All Blacks Nic Sestaret Albion 50 - 7 All Blacks
Recent results Welsh 29 - 3 Knights Tigers 18 - 24 Welsh Welsh 25 - 26 Titans B Blues 22 - 0 Welsh Moseley 6 - 13 Welsh N Blues 12 - 20 Welsh Welsh 38 - 0 All Blacks Welsh 12 - 31 Chiefs	Recent results Pirates 17 - 17 Albion Albion 13 - 16 Moseley Albion 25 - 19 Tigers Titans 34 - 22 Albion Albion 11 - 15 Knights Cov 29 - 10 Albion Albion 6 - 13 B Blues
Final Match Saturday 26 April Pirates v Welsh	Final Match Saturday 26 April Albion v N Blues
TRIES 10 Paul Sampson 5 Allen Chiltern Greg Evans 4 Wame Lewaravu 3 Adam Kwasnicki James Strong 2 Hugo Ellis Paul Mackey Richard Martin Redman Jonathan Mills Greg Nichols 1 Nick Adams Kevin Burke Alex Cadwallander Simon Etheridge Alex Goode Colm Hannon Hywel Jenkins Mathew Jones Aaron Lisschak Gareth Morgan Howard Quigley Richard Resman Ben Thomas	TRIES 6 Ed Lewsey 5 Liam Gibson Adam Kettle James Owen Nic Sestaret 4 Emyr Lewis 3 Brad Davies Tommy Hayes 2 Jannie Bornman Arran Cruikshanks Wihan Neethling 1 Steve Barretto Nigel Cane Mike Denbee Keni Fisilau Richard Oxley Nat Saumi
Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Mathew Jones 14 - 15 73 Sam Ulph 6 - 13 51 Gareth Morgan 4 1 4 23 Mitch Burton 3 1 4 21 Tom Marks 6 - 3 21 Paul Mackey 1 - 2 8 Jonathan Mills 1 - - 2	Kicking Points  Con DG Pen Points Ross Laidlaw 27 - 44 186 Brad Davies 6 - 10 42 Wihan Neethling 1 - - 2
Discipline Red Card Lee Best SinBin Anthonty Andrews Mitch Burton Allen Chiltern Paul Cox Craig Everett Colm Hannon Hywel Jenkins Mathew Jones Mark Lea (2) Wame Lewaravu Richard Martin Redman Jonathan Mills Howard Quigley (2) Paul Sampson Taylor Ben Thomas (2) Sunia Koto Vuli (3) Alex Walker	Discipline SinBin Steve Barretto Mike Denbee Keni Fisilau Ben Gulliver Tommy Hayes (2) Adam Kettle (3) Tim Mathias James Owen Nic Sestaret Brett Stroud

Recent meetings

01 December 07
Plymouth Albion 29
London Welsh 14

Attendance: = 2132

This match saw Albion extend their winning run but showed some good and bad points.

More options were used but all tries were scored by the forwards with Richard getting his first of the season for the 1st team.

With the lights on the match seemed to go on for ages and even felt as though the referee was waiting for Albion to score their bonus point try before blowing up for the end of the match.

London Welsh scored two run in tries through and around the Albion defence in the first half to go into the turn around in the lead.

As has happened a number of times this season Albion step up the pace late in the match to score the required points to collect all 5 points.

Team: Emyr Lewis, Ed Lewsey, Arran Cruickshanks, Brad Davies, Nic Sestaret, Ross Laidlaw, Nigel Cane, Tim Mathias, James Owen, Steve Barretto, Colin Stewart, Ben Gulliver, Tom Hayes, Brett Stroud, Jannie Bornman Replacements: Keni Fisilau, Wihan Neethling, Nat Saumi, Scott Zimmerman, Richard Oxley, Chris Lowrie, Adam Kettle

Scorers :- Tries James Owen Jannie Bornman Richard Oxley Steve Barretto Penalties Ross Laidlaw Conversions 3x Ross Laidlaw

02 December 06
London Welsh 7
Plymouth Albion 55

Albion dominated the whole game going into the turnaround leading by 34 points with London Welsh unable to put a point on the board.

Wihan Neethling was replaced by Nat Saumi on 63 minutes and passed the kicking duties to Ed Barnes for a while before he too was replaced when Regardt van Eyk took on the role and kicked two conversions.

Albion equal their biggest away total set against Blackheath in 2000 and London Welsh concede the most points at home as far as the RFU records are concerned.

Some discussion as to who scored the last try but it goes down to Nigel Cane who got there just before Chris.

Scott Zimmerman scores his first ever try for the club while Chris Lowrie and Ed Barnes score their first tries of the season.

More ...

Team: Wihan Neethling, Tom Arscott, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Ed Lewsey, Martin Rice, Richard Oxley, Scott Zimmerman, Colin Stewart, Tom Hayes, Federico Genoud, Danny Thomas, Chris Lowrie Replacements: Nigel Cane(used), Arran Cruickshanks(used), Nat Saumi(used), Tim Mathias(used), Francisco Deformes(used), James Owen(used), Brett Stroud(used)

Scorers :- Tries Chris Lowrie Ed Barnes Martin Rice Nic Sestaret Nigel Cane Regardt van Eyk Richard Oxley Scott Zimmerman Tom Arscott Conversions Ed Barnes 2x Regardt van Eyk 2x Wihan Neethling Sin Bin Ed Lewsey

09 September 06
Plymouth Albion 20
London Welsh 12

Attendance: = 2374

More ...      Opponents Report

Team: Wihan Neethling, Ed Lewsey, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Richard Oxley, Scott Zimmerman, Colin Stewart, Ben Gulliver, Brett Stroud, Danny Thomas, Tom Hayes Replacements: David Delaney(used), Nat Saumi, Arran Cruickshanks, Tim Mathias, James Owen, Federico Genoud(used), Chris Lowrie

Scorers :- Tries Martin Rice Penalty Tries Penalty Try Penalties 2x Wihan Neethling Conversions 2x Wihan Neethling

01 April 06
Plymouth Albion 31
London Welsh 10

Attendance: = 2476

More ...

Team: Luke Arscott, Ed Lewsey, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Stuart Friswell, Ryan Hopkins, Brett Luxton, Tom Hayes, Martin Schusterman, Danny Thomas, Alfie Tooala Replacements: Nat Saumi(used), Chris Lowrie(used), Jon Fabian(used), Matias Albina(used), Alister Livesey(used), Graham Dawe, Nic Rouse(used)

Scorers :- Tries Alfie Tooala Ed Barnes Keni Fisilau 2x Martin Schusterman Conversions 3x Ed Barnes

12 November 05
London Welsh 18
Plymouth Albion 29

Team: Luke Arscott, Jon Fabian, Nat Saumi, Sam Leung Wai, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Nigel Cane, Martin Rice, Stewart Pearl, Scott Zimmerman, Nic Rouse, Tom Hayes, Chris Lowrie, Danny Thomas, Alfie Tooala Replacements: Regardt van Eyk(used), Brett Stroud(used), Graham Dawe(used), Ryan Hopkins(used), Nick Defty, Matt Newman, Ben Rowntree

Scorers :- Tries 2x Nic Sestaret 2x Stewart Pearl Penalties Nat Saumi Conversions 3x Nat Saumi

Predictions

RugbyRoundup.Com

Eighth takes on ninth at Old Deer Park in a game that has an end of season feel to it. A win for Albion would lift them above the Exiles and after a draw at the Pirates the Devon outfit will fancy their chances. The Exiles have blown hot and cold at times this season but I fancy a seven point win in their last home match of the season.

 Rugby Times

London Welsh by 6

Officials

ref A Taylorson

Remaining fixtures

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