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Gloucester 28 - Northampton 7 |
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| The first half was dire. Glaws could not secure any possession because Zed couldn’t hit a barn door with his increasingly frustrated shies, and Northampton had just the one plan. This was to wind up the aforementioned Zed, and the rest of the Glawster pack, with particular attention being paid to Adam Eustace. The main protagonist-in-chief was Paul Tupai, ably supported by Fatty Thompson (Thompson was the target for some of the most vociferous banter to come from the main grandstand in recent times: “Thompson, you’re fat and you’re proud of it!” and “Ex-England player!” were a couple of the more publishable ones). To the home side’s credit, discipline held firm, in spite of the concerted provocation. After Glaws opened the scoring with a Mercier penalty kick, the initiative was seized back immediately by the visitors at the restart. A terrible kick from Spencer (hew-haw, hew-haw etc. etc.) resulted in a Glaws scrum on halfway, which was, inexplicably, lost against the head; Saints booted up field to touch; Glaws chose the back of the line option, (why, oh why, with Zed throwing? - he has about a 2% success rate on this particular call) promptly lost it, and moments later Quinlan was scoring under the posts after a deft chip by Spencer over the advancing defence. A piece of absolute magic 10 minutes from the break took Glaws back into the lead. Forrester claimed one of the few successful throws to the lineout in the first period, Buxton bashed it through the midfield, Forrester looped round and galloped in from 40 metres after a sublime step to foil the Saints defence. This was all too much for Tupai; perhaps he didn’t appreciate his fellow back-rower, Darren Fox, being made to look such an ass, or maybe he felt that Forrester’s pace and vision just weren’t fair; whatever the reason, he decided at a ruck shortly afterwards that he would take Django out of the game. His protestations that he was merely rucking were pitiful and he was very lucky that Sean Davey only showed him a yellow card, particularly as he stayed on the pitch for some afters. Glaws were a different team in the second half. Mefin Davies replaced Zed, and the resultant possession meant that the Saints were gradually squeezed out of the game. Ludo kicked two penalties before a tremendous rolling drive from the lineout ended with Hazell going over for the score. By this stage the Northampton pack was completely cream crackered and, once again, we witnessed the farce of uncontested scrums. What little possession the visitors mustered was shovelled crab-like across the field due Glaws’ excellent defence. The Saints much vaunted back line were simply tackled into submission and the white flag was much in evidence when Jack Adams made fools of Cohen and Lamont with an opportunist chip and chase touchdown in the very last play of the match. Send this page to a friend |
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