A Brive Encounter
By CreamCraicer
December 20 2009
A London Irish Movie
Directed by Toby Booth and starring Peter Hewat, Tom Homer, Elvis Seveali’I, Seilala Mapusua, John Rudd, Chris Malone, Fredo Lalanne, Clarke Dermody, David Paice, Paulica Ion, Nick Kennedy, Bob Casey, Richard Thorpe, Steffon Armitage and Chris Hala’ufia
December 20 2009
A London Irish Movie
Directed by Toby Booth and starring Peter Hewat, Tom Homer, Elvis Seveali’I, Seilala Mapusua, John Rudd, Chris Malone, Fredo Lalanne, Clarke Dermody, David Paice, Paulica Ion, Nick Kennedy, Bob Casey, Richard Thorpe, Steffon Armitage and Chris Hala’ufia
with guest appearances from Danie Coetzee, Dan Murphy, Stephanus Johannes Rautenbach, Kieran Roche, George Stowers, Delon Armitage, Jamie Lennard and Ryan Lamb
This story of passion and determination begins on a crisp, winters day in Reading, The Exiles set their sights on the try-bonus point, putting pressure on the Brive defence right from the start, the defence held out as Irish used the full width of the pitch but on 10mins the breakthrough came. Irish spun it wide and a well-timed pass from Thorpe gave Homer a one-on-one with the Brive full-back JeanJean (so good they named him twice?…….no), The Frenchman offered little defence as Homer stepped past him and touched down in the corner, Malone converts from the touchline and Irish are 7-0 up.
Straight from the restart Irish are penalised for holding-on at the ruck and Orquera struck the resulting penalty between the posts to cut the deficit to 4 points….7-3 Irish. During this period of play the Brive Tighthead, Zimmerman went off injured to be replaced by the former Pest Pat Barnard. Soon after, Irish are penalised again at the breakdown and Oquera sends a 45m-penalty through the uprights and now the lead’s just 1 point.
Minutes later half of the Brive defence stray offside and Malone kicks the penalty from 20metres out; after this the game descended into a scrappy period with more aimless kicking in two minutes than the whole of the game in France.
Irish decided to start running with the ball and created two try scoring chances, both of which ended with the ball going into touch near the line.
This brief period of good attacking rugby was followed by more ping-pong kicking which saw Jeanjean kick the ball dead-in-goal from well inside his own half. Brive were penalised at the following scrum and Malone converted the chance from 40m out.
The last 10 minutes of the first half saw Irish take control, Steve Thompson held-on at the break down and gave the Ref some back-chat, which saw Brive marched 10m back, Malone sent a 45m punt into touch 5m out, Nick catches and sets up a drive, The Brive No4 Retief Uys is penalised an sin-binned for being offside and killing the ball. Irish choose to scrum down against the now-weakened Brive pack, a scrappy-scrum produces even scrappier ball but Malone shows a cool-head and gives a short pass to a charging Mapusua who scythes through the Brive defence to score under the posts. Malone converts, a missed drop-goal attempt from Oquera means the half-time score is 20-6 to Irish.
Half-time substitutions for Brive, Perry on for Pejoine at SH and Henn for Kinchagishvili at Tighthead.
The 2nd half started off scrappy with Irish trying to force things and mistakes being made from both sides. 10 minutes in, former Wasp, Barnard is sent to the bin for Boring-in at a Irish scrum. Irish send on Dan Murphy to replace Ion and George Stowers on in-place of Hala’ufia, both departing players receiving a well deserved round of applause from the crowd. Minutes later a 3rd Brive player is sin-binned, this time former Falcon, Jamie Noon, a victim of his teams persistent offending at the breakdown. Brive make a double substitution, Idieder for Domingo and Spedding for Jeanjean.
Irish make their numerical advantage count soon-after, stretching Brive’s defence with a succession of wide plays before Sevelai’i straightens and coasts in to touch-down under the posts, Malones conversion makes it 27-6. Danie comes on for Paice and Brive bring Domingo back on for Idieder and Dubarry replaces Browne. Soon after Irish make a raft of changes, Roche for Steffon, Lamb for Malone, Rautencbach for Dermody, Lennard for Seveali’i and the biggest cheer of the game so far comes as Delon Armitage returns from his shoulder injury to replace ‘Rhino’ Rudd.
The match enters another quiet, scrappy period with Irish forcing things too much in search of the crucial 4th try and with 3 minutes to go Irish try and attack out of their own 22 but lose possession, brive quickly get the ball wide for Namy to score in the corner infront of the Brive supporters. Orquera converts to make the score 27-13 with a minute to go.
This is where our Brive Encounter differs from Brief Encounter….we get the happy ending the play/movie didn’t. Brive knock-on the ball from the restart and Irish get a scrum 20metres from the line. A solid shove gives Lalanne quick, clean ball to work with, he picks up and steps the first tackler before passing on to Hewat who moves the ball on to the returning Delon Armitage who cuts a great angle and storms through, as the Brive defence looks on, and dives under the posts to score the crucial 4th try and secure the bonus-point with the last play of the game, Lamb converts to complete a perfect day with the boot for Irish and make the final score London Irish 34 Brive 13.
The attendance was a little disappointing at 9,275 and the MOM was Seveali’I but my MOM is Eek for his pronunciation of Kinchagishvili (its hard enough to type let alone say)
This story of passion and determination begins on a crisp, winters day in Reading, The Exiles set their sights on the try-bonus point, putting pressure on the Brive defence right from the start, the defence held out as Irish used the full width of the pitch but on 10mins the breakthrough came. Irish spun it wide and a well-timed pass from Thorpe gave Homer a one-on-one with the Brive full-back JeanJean (so good they named him twice?…….no), The Frenchman offered little defence as Homer stepped past him and touched down in the corner, Malone converts from the touchline and Irish are 7-0 up.
Straight from the restart Irish are penalised for holding-on at the ruck and Orquera struck the resulting penalty between the posts to cut the deficit to 4 points….7-3 Irish. During this period of play the Brive Tighthead, Zimmerman went off injured to be replaced by the former Pest Pat Barnard. Soon after, Irish are penalised again at the breakdown and Oquera sends a 45m-penalty through the uprights and now the lead’s just 1 point.
Minutes later half of the Brive defence stray offside and Malone kicks the penalty from 20metres out; after this the game descended into a scrappy period with more aimless kicking in two minutes than the whole of the game in France.
Irish decided to start running with the ball and created two try scoring chances, both of which ended with the ball going into touch near the line.
This brief period of good attacking rugby was followed by more ping-pong kicking which saw Jeanjean kick the ball dead-in-goal from well inside his own half. Brive were penalised at the following scrum and Malone converted the chance from 40m out.
The last 10 minutes of the first half saw Irish take control, Steve Thompson held-on at the break down and gave the Ref some back-chat, which saw Brive marched 10m back, Malone sent a 45m punt into touch 5m out, Nick catches and sets up a drive, The Brive No4 Retief Uys is penalised an sin-binned for being offside and killing the ball. Irish choose to scrum down against the now-weakened Brive pack, a scrappy-scrum produces even scrappier ball but Malone shows a cool-head and gives a short pass to a charging Mapusua who scythes through the Brive defence to score under the posts. Malone converts, a missed drop-goal attempt from Oquera means the half-time score is 20-6 to Irish.
Half-time substitutions for Brive, Perry on for Pejoine at SH and Henn for Kinchagishvili at Tighthead.
The 2nd half started off scrappy with Irish trying to force things and mistakes being made from both sides. 10 minutes in, former Wasp, Barnard is sent to the bin for Boring-in at a Irish scrum. Irish send on Dan Murphy to replace Ion and George Stowers on in-place of Hala’ufia, both departing players receiving a well deserved round of applause from the crowd. Minutes later a 3rd Brive player is sin-binned, this time former Falcon, Jamie Noon, a victim of his teams persistent offending at the breakdown. Brive make a double substitution, Idieder for Domingo and Spedding for Jeanjean.
Irish make their numerical advantage count soon-after, stretching Brive’s defence with a succession of wide plays before Sevelai’i straightens and coasts in to touch-down under the posts, Malones conversion makes it 27-6. Danie comes on for Paice and Brive bring Domingo back on for Idieder and Dubarry replaces Browne. Soon after Irish make a raft of changes, Roche for Steffon, Lamb for Malone, Rautencbach for Dermody, Lennard for Seveali’i and the biggest cheer of the game so far comes as Delon Armitage returns from his shoulder injury to replace ‘Rhino’ Rudd.
The match enters another quiet, scrappy period with Irish forcing things too much in search of the crucial 4th try and with 3 minutes to go Irish try and attack out of their own 22 but lose possession, brive quickly get the ball wide for Namy to score in the corner infront of the Brive supporters. Orquera converts to make the score 27-13 with a minute to go.
This is where our Brive Encounter differs from Brief Encounter….we get the happy ending the play/movie didn’t. Brive knock-on the ball from the restart and Irish get a scrum 20metres from the line. A solid shove gives Lalanne quick, clean ball to work with, he picks up and steps the first tackler before passing on to Hewat who moves the ball on to the returning Delon Armitage who cuts a great angle and storms through, as the Brive defence looks on, and dives under the posts to score the crucial 4th try and secure the bonus-point with the last play of the game, Lamb converts to complete a perfect day with the boot for Irish and make the final score London Irish 34 Brive 13.
The attendance was a little disappointing at 9,275 and the MOM was Seveali’I but my MOM is Eek for his pronunciation of Kinchagishvili (its hard enough to type let alone say)
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