Tom V - try

By Cherry Picker
October 2 2011

Sixty-six points in 80 minutes, and it all came down to one single penalty - anybody who has ever doubted the value of kicks in rugby need only to have been at Kingsholm as Gloucester pipped London Irish 33-30 in the lunchtime heat.

Both sides scored three converted tries in a game which might have had its flaws, but gave full all-round value for money if it’s entertainment you crave when you go to a game.

But if you are one of those fans who cares only about the result, it was a knife-edge killer of the sort that brings on nail-biting and hyper-tension.

Behind to a daft try early on, Glaws came back to lead 23-10, but Irish refused to give in and regained the lead before replacement Freddie Burns kicked the decider with a quarter of the game left.

How neither team scored in that tense finale is a mystery perhaps best answered by the draining temperature, but Glaws held on for the win and coach Bryan Redpath was as relieved as the next man.

He told the BBC: "We made it pretty hard on ourselves at the start with an interception and seven easy points but we clawed our way back into the game pretty well after that.

"I would have liked to have finished the game with another try and more intensity but the boys were pretty tired by then.

"On a whole the game was a pretty evenly matched contest but our scrum was very strong which I was delighted with.

"At points there were some poor basics from both sides. As I told the team at half-time, we conceded too many simple things but in the second half we came out and scored two excellent tries."

Those were from Tom Voyce in the first-half comeback and from the irrepressible Darren Dawidiuk in the second, a penalty try when Irish were struggling a man short in the pack sandwiched between them.

The win took Glaws to fifth, but it’s tight in the middle of the table and next weekend’s visit to a Sale team looking a lot better than in recent seasons is vital.

Glaws hold on for vital victory

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