Iain Balshaw
Glaws earn first bonus-point win of the season
Iain Balshaw
By Cherry Picker
October 1 2008
Some supporters might not be exactly over the moon, but Gloucester coach Dean Ryan has declared himself content with three wins in the five opening Guinness Premiership games. They chalked up their third with a 39-23 victory over Newcastle Falcons at Kingsholm, and they were never in danger of being even close to anything other than a win, their first bonus point victory of the season.
Iain Balshaw
October 1 2008
Some supporters might not be exactly over the moon, but Gloucester coach Dean Ryan has declared himself content with three wins in the five opening Guinness Premiership games. They chalked up their third with a 39-23 victory over Newcastle Falcons at Kingsholm, and they were never in danger of being even close to anything other than a win, their first bonus point victory of the season.
Ryan told the BBC after the game: "We should have scored twice early on, and if that had happened we could have had a lot of superiority.
"It has been a pretty tough start to the season for us - we've had Leicester, Bath, Harlequins, Sale and Newcastle, and won three of those games. We haven't played that well, but we will be content with what we've got."
Olly Barkley kicked four penalties and Willie Walker converted one of the tries, but the bad news was that the Falcons, though well beaten, still managed three tries of their own.
They also had bad news of their own, though, with Jonny Wilkinson helped off in the first half with a knee injury.
Glaws have still not hit their best form, but at least there were signs of it in this game.
The trouble is, most other GP teams will prove to be more difficult to beat than the Falcons.
Glaws now go into a five-game break from the Premiership, starting at home to Wasps in the EDF this weekend. The next GP match is away to Saracens on Novermber 16. Fixtures:
Glaws: O Morgan, I Balshaw, M Watkins (W Walker 40), M Tindall, (capt), J Simpson-Daniel, O Barkley M Foster 76), G Cooper (R Lawson 51), N Wood (D Young 78), S Lawson (O Azam 51), A Dickinson, M Bortolami, A Brown, P Buxton (A Satala 76), A Strokosch, L Narraway A Hazell 38).
Apo Satala, a second-half replacement against the Falcons, has signed a Kingsholm contract until the end of the season.
"It has been a pretty tough start to the season for us - we've had Leicester, Bath, Harlequins, Sale and Newcastle, and won three of those games. We haven't played that well, but we will be content with what we've got."
JSD can't be stopped by a last-ditch Falcons tackle.
Iain Balshaw scored three tries and James Simpson-Daniel the other two in a clinical win, but as Ryan says, the margin could have been greater.
Olly Barkley kicked four penalties and Willie Walker converted one of the tries, but the bad news was that the Falcons, though well beaten, still managed three tries of their own.
They also had bad news of their own, though, with Jonny Wilkinson helped off in the first half with a knee injury.
Glaws have still not hit their best form, but at least there were signs of it in this game.
The trouble is, most other GP teams will prove to be more difficult to beat than the Falcons.
Glaws now go into a five-game break from the Premiership, starting at home to Wasps in the EDF this weekend. The next GP match is away to Saracens on Novermber 16. Fixtures:
Glaws: O Morgan, I Balshaw, M Watkins (W Walker 40), M Tindall, (capt), J Simpson-Daniel, O Barkley M Foster 76), G Cooper (R Lawson 51), N Wood (D Young 78), S Lawson (O Azam 51), A Dickinson, M Bortolami, A Brown, P Buxton (A Satala 76), A Strokosch, L Narraway A Hazell 38).
Apo Satala, a second-half replacement against the Falcons, has signed a Kingsholm contract until the end of the season.
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That was definately more like it for me. Good to see Glaws keeping the ball in hand more and although there were too many errors they were not afraid to keep playing the same way, there were definate signs of form coming back. Balshaw and Sinbad scared them all night and Olly Morgan is looking really top class at fullback. As a sidenote it was a pity to see Sir Jonny limp off but he got the reception he deserved from all sides of the ground.
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