Tigers v Quins AP Review


By Gaz
November 20 2010

Welford Road on a cold, foggy Friday night - warmed somewhat by the thought of 80 minutes of great rugby, also by the warm and witty banter from the fine chaps and chapesses on the terrace (that do you Tiggs?!)

However, the first twenty minutes didn't look hopeful, as Quins took a lead of 6 points thanks to 2 successful Nick Evans penalties.  Things were not looking good, Tigers giving away far too much ball and territory, struggling to make any inroads into the Quins half.  Tigers were lucky not to be further behind, as Quins butchered a good try scoring opportunity - something that would be repeated throughout the game.

 
Manu Tuilagi, another player making his first league start, set things going for the Tigers with a wonderful run that saw him hauled down just short of the line.  A penalty from the resulting scrum saw Twelvetrees score Tigers first points of the game.  Tigers 3 Quins 6.  Manu made his presence felt later in the game with a bone crunching tackle that nearly saw Tom Williams become an integral part of the Welford Road turf!!
 
A second Twelvetrees penalty a few mins later saw the scores leveled at 6-6.  However the best was yet to come.  A 53 metre howitzer of a kick saw Tigers take the lead 9-6.  Billy wasn't finished though.
 
Tigers finished the first half strongly, making good territorial gains, but were unable to cross the Quins try line.
 
Into the second half, and Billy's good form with the boot continued.  Not content with his 53 metre first half kick, he then slotted a 55 metre kick soon after the restart.  Yet another successful kick took the score to Tigers 15 Quins 6.
 
Tigers looked like taking control of the game, however things took a bad turn when Parling came off the bench only to be carried off a couple of minutes later with what looked like a serious injury. 
 
Difficult to say who had the better of the scrummage, as this area of the game wasn't really allowed to develop - the seemingly random penalties and free kicks didn't help either. Tigers continued to pile on the pressure however, and came close to scoring, only an unfortunate forward pass stopping a superb move.
 
Yet another Twelvetrees penalty took the score to 15 - 6, and this looked to be the final score.  However, Quins were determined to have the last word, and with a couple of minutes to go, Tom Williams wriggled over the line to end the game with a bonus point for quins - final score Tigers 18 Quins 13.
 
Not a classic, but at least Tigers are back in a winning mode, now  let's keep it up!!

 

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010:11:26:22:11:26 by Stephen Bath.

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Tiggs
20/11/2010 20:28
Thanks Gaz, enjoy your now deserved holiday.

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Stopsy
20/11/2010 21:49
Many thanks Gaz.

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tigerburnie
21/11/2010 15:47
Good report,thanks

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Johns
22/11/2010 15:03
Thanks gaz

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Rich W
23/11/2010 09:14
Rubbish Gaz! Anyone would think you'd forgotten that you were supposed to be writing the report! Pah!(Sm112)(Sm98)

It's ok. He won't read this - he's on his hols!(Sm163)

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Stopsy
23/11/2010 10:59
He certainly watched a different game to Danny "Look at Me" Care.

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Tiggs
26/11/2010 22:12
Thanks again Gaz.

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