Winning Try

By MG
May 10 2021

What an advert for the game of rugby union. For once the scoreline says it all with Marcus Smith scoring the last minute winner for 14 man  Quins to beat Wasps 48-46.  

It was drama all the way with Mike Brown sent off for a boot to the face of Wasps hooker Tommy Taylor. That could mean it's Brown's last game for Quins as he leaves for Newcastle next season. 

The win gives Quins a 9 point advantage in the battle for a top four finish with Gloucester's unexpected hammering of Saints on their own turf.

Once again Marcus Smith - watched by Eddie Jones -showed his class specially when he won the game by nipping round the blind side with just seconds left. He then converted to deliver that five pointer.

Quins: Brown; Green, Marchant, Northmore, Murley; Smith, Care; Marler, Baldwin, Louw, Symons, Lewies, Lawday, Kenningham, Dombrandt.

Reps: Gray, Garcia Botta, Collier, Lamb, White, Landajo, Lang, Lasike.

Tries: Marchant, Lang, Smith 2, Care, Dombrandt 

Cons: Smith 6

Pens: Smith 2

Wasps: Robson; Umaga, Bassett, Fekitoa, Odogwu; Kibrige, Miller; West, Taylor, Brookes, Rowlands, Gaskell, Shields, Young, Willis.

Reps: Oghre, McIntyre, Toomaga-Allen, Cardall, Morris, Porter, Atkinson, Le Bourgeois.

Tries: Bassett 2, Odogwu, Robson, Fekitoa, Young

 Cons: Umaga 5 

Pens: Umaga 2