Gloucester go second

Gloucester go second

22 Nov 2008

Gloucester went to second in the Premiership with a resounding 39-10 over struggling Bristol at Kingsholm.

Five tries through Olly Morgan, Peter Buxton (two), Alex Brown and Ryan Lamb  was more than enough to seal the win. Gloucester head coach Dean Ryan lauded his team for sealing the five points so early in the game.

“For 50 or 60 minutes, we were excellent and they (Bristol) did not have an answer to it. It was a crucial time,” said Ryan. 

“Playing a side like Bristol, you have to be ahead after 60 minutes and, if you have not got a good lead, you have not shaken them off.

“Bristol are a tough side around the contact area and it looked like they worked on that for this game.”

In the other fixture of the night, Worcester downed Britsol’s fellow-strugglers Newcastle 26-11. The Worcester tries came from Australasian recruits Chris Latham and Sam Tuitupou.


22 Comments

  • 1.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 07:47 am

    Dragons

    Bristol going down

  • 2.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:11 am

    Remind me again – why do they play in the international season?

  • 3.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:22 am

    #2 wooden spoon: the european rugby season has been based very much on the football/soccer model. In the same way that football has england internationals, champions league matches and premiership matches in the same month rugby has AIs, Heineken Cup and GP matches on at the same time. Its doesn’t appear very well organised but does provide variety, one week its heineken cup pool clashes then next week its Eng/SA then its Bath/Leicester etc.

  • 4.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:30 am

    #3 Big Hit: Doesn’t make sense to me.

    Global season is needed.

    Feb – Apr: Currie Cup/Air NZ/Guiness Premiership/French league
    May – July: S14/ Heneiken Cup/EDF
    August – Sept: 3N/6N
    Oct – Nov: International tours

    Keep it simple and the best players are available for both club and country all the time.

  • 5.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:40 am

    #4 wooden spoon: for a global season you would need summer rugby in the NH. The stick in the mud RFU would never agree to it and for NZ/Aus rugby its probably for the best because I think if rugby was played in summer it would becomemore popular with the result that the money to offer SH players huge wages would be available.

  • 6.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:41 am

    #4 wooden spoon: have to say a global season looks good tho :)

  • 7.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 09:47 am

    #5 Big Hit: A colleague told me that a similar effect was experienced by rugby league in the UK recently. Not the biggest crowds historically, but when the playing season was changed to summer, the crowds increased substantially.

    The same would happen in the UK if rugby union was played in the summer, imo.

    In any event, these days rugby is almost a year long season!

  • 8.church - like chch but pronounceable: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 10:22 am

    #3 Big Hit:

    Interesting that Australian football has moved away from the club structure at top level and now Fifa has given them an ultimatum to go back to it or risk being moved back out of Asian tournaments.

    FIFA know that these franchise structures can never build up the same type of presence and history as a club structure. When Super this becomes Super that and we redraw the boundaries what does it mean. Super12 and 14 are basically the same but Super10 was something else …. who knows what will happen in the future.

  • 9.church - like chch but pronounceable: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 10:25 am

    One of the issues I have with European rugby is that we see these competitions with no explanation of what they are, who is eligible and how they fit together. From TV down under it is just a bunch of random games

  • 10.Puma: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 10:33 am

    #4 wooden spoon: That sounds good but the Oct – Nov tours can the NH come down here where the sun shines then? Then again its just far to hot to play rugga down here unless we play the games around 6pm. That would work. We really do have to have a global season it would be much better for all the rugby players.

  • 11.asha1: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 11:24 am

    #4 wooden spoon:
    i’m impressed
    it rea;;y doesnt look bad!
    you’ve even managed to add a (almost) two month rest period for the top players!

  • 12.asha1: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 11:27 am

    rea;;y = really, of course
    :oops:

  • 13.asha1: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 12:09 pm

    London – On the eve of the Test against England at Twickenham on Saturday, Peter de Villiers still had some time to reflect on a challenging first year as the coach of the Springboks.

    Speaking at an official function with more than 50 Springbok supporters on the Vodacom Greatest Supporters Tour, De Villiers admitted it hadn’t all been “plain sailing”.

    “I’ve been through some deep waters, but you can either look at the glass half full or half empty. I’m the kind of optimist that will look at it half full,” said De Villiers.

    “Even if there are only two people who are supporting the team, those are two more than nothing. The one thing we lose as people is that whenever you come up against somebody who is against you, you think the whole world is against you. But you don’t realise who is following you and who shares the same sentiments as you. When you have players like I have, the management team and family back home, and even supporters such as this, then everything becomes worthwhile.”

    peter!
    peter!
    peter!

    ..
    oops
    i meant
    bokke!
    bokke!
    bokke! :grin:

  • 14.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:04 pm

    NZ are Rugby League World Cup champs,Cane where are you

  • 15.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:32 pm

    #14 Hurricane: Awww well done mate! Oh… wait Rugby LEAGUE.

    That’s a damn shame son, for a moment there I thought maybe you guys had done the impossible…

  • 16.cane: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:32 pm

    #14 Hurricane:

    Miracles do happen……………………………………………

  • 17.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:32 pm

    #13 asha1: Legend… wait for it… DARY!

  • 18.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:33 pm

    #15 Bagel: Btw I still think New Zealand are the best team in the world and have huge respect for the team buuuuut… The oppertunity was faaaar too tempting.

  • 19.cane: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:35 pm

    #15 Bagel:

    To beat Aussie in RL, is to do the impossible Bagel.

    They have won ALL 7 previous RL WC’s. And were huge favourites to win this one as well.

  • 20.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:38 pm

    #19 cane: Congratulations.

  • 21.cane: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 13:44 pm

    #20 Bagel:

    Thank you Bagel.

  • 22.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    22 Nov 2008, 20:13 pm

    #15 Bagel:
    lol
    Well Bagel what we did was impossible until the final whistle.
    Thing is our League team actually has to beat a team that was ranked higher than them to win the cup,you dint need to do that in rugby to win the cup :-)

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