Gloucester
Glaws waste chance of LV= win in Wales
Big Les - another try
By Cherry Picker
November 5 2010
They knew it’s never easy in Wales, and that’s how it turned out for Gloucester as they were turned over 18-12 by Newport-Gwent Dragons in their first LV=Cup match. With a much-changed team littered with inexperience, Glaws were always on contention, but were beaten by a late home try and their own inability to make pressure count.
The cherry and whites battered away at the home line looking for a late score of their own, but couldn’t quiet make it and the Dragons held on for their win.
Glaws had scored a penalty try and Lesley Vainikolo crossed for the second game running, but the Dragons had two tries of their own and Matthew Jones’s kicking was better than that of Freddie Buns, who was only able to convert the penalty try.
The Glaws pack dominated the game, but as a team they were never able to fully cash in on their up-front power. The possession was there, but the finish wasn’t.
Coach Bryan Redpath told the BBC: "Our basic execution wasn't good enough. Every time we tried to create something we were either too flat or we made a handling error and knocked on, which created a very frustrating edge to the game.
"Freddie Burns kicked us into the right areas but we didn't capitalise in the right areas of the pitch.
"We highlighted this was a Wales v England thing, and not just Dragons v Gloucester, and that's what the 5,000 people here turned up for.
"Players have to realise that's how they see it. We were sloppy in some of the basics that we've been good at in the last six weeks."
Redpath is right when he says players have to realise that such games are Wales v England as well as club v club, but how easy is that if you are not English or Welsh?
perhaps they would be better of realising that like all professional sport, the game is about winning and in the rain at Newport, they threw away a chance to do so.
After demonstrating that recent Premiership form shouldn’t lead to over-confidence, hopefully they won’t b as wasteful at home to Saracens in the LV= next weekend.
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