HEC: Cardiff Blues - London Irish (18-11-2011)

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff (18-11-2011, 20:00)

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[TABLE="class: grid"]
[TR][TD] Cardiff Blues [/TD][TD] [/TD][TD] London Irish [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Chris Czekaj [/TD][TD] 15 [/TD][TD] Tom Homer [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Alex Cuthbert [/TD][TD] 14 [/TD][TD] Topsy Ojo [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Casey Laulala [/TD][TD] 13 [/TD][TD] Joe Ansbro [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Dafydd Hewitt [/TD][TD] 12 [/TD][TD] Steve Shingler [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Tom James [/TD][TD] 11 [/TD][TD] Adam Thompstone [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Dan Parks [/TD][TD] 10 [/TD][TD] Dan Bowden [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Lloyd Williams [/TD][TD] 9 [/TD][TD] Ross Samson [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Xavier Rush [/TD][TD] 8 [/TD][TD] Jebb Sinclair [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Sam Warburton [/TD][TD] 7 [/TD][TD] Richard Thorpe [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Michael Paterson [/TD][TD] 6 [/TD][TD] Declan Danaher [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Paul ***o [/TD][TD] 5 [/TD][TD] Matthew Garvey [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Bradley Davies [/TD][TD] 4 [/TD][TD] Nick Kennedy [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Tau Filise [/TD][TD] 3 [/TD][TD] Faan Rautenbach [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] T Rhys Thomas [/TD][TD] 2 [/TD][TD] David Paice [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Gethin Jenkins [/TD][TD] 1 [/TD][TD] Clarke Dermody [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] [/TD][TD] [/TD][TD] [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Marc Breeze [/TD][TD] 16 [/TD][TD] James Buckland [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] John Yapp [/TD][TD] 17 [/TD][TD] Alex Corbisiero [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Scott Andrews [/TD][TD] 18 [/TD][TD] Paulica Ion [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Maama Molitika [/TD][TD] 19 [/TD][TD] James Sandford [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Josh Navidi [/TD][TD] 20 [/TD][TD] Jamie Gibson [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Richie Rees [/TD][TD] 21 [/TD][TD] Jonathan Spratt [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Ceri Sweeney [/TD][TD] 22 [/TD][TD] Adrian Jarvis [/TD][/TR]
[TR][TD] Gavin Evans [/TD][TD] 23 [/TD][TD] Paul Hodgson [/TD][/TR]
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[Seaton]

Dan Parks just carries on going.

Please, we need one of Weir or Jackson to be our stand-off in the 6 Nations. It's a bloody WRU conspiracy I tells ya!

Anyways, nice to see Ansbro benefitting from Hape getting a 4 week ban for his assault on Denton, and then Cox only got one week for his ongoings against happy :? Guess the citing commissioner got the memo wrong.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Still no Henson - I would've thought he'd make the bench in one of these matches

 

[dullonien]

Still no Henson - I would've thought he'd make the bench in one of these matches

Won't be fit till the beginning of December by all accounts.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Ah, I just presumed he was fit when he signed for the Blues

 

[Draggs]

Shingler sent off for a spear tackle.
Cardiff not using this to their advantage and making hard work of it. 18-9 up at halftime.
Tries for T. Rhys Thomas and Lloyd Williams.

 

[SelimNiai]

Was a definite red card, deserved it.

 

[Draggs]

Was a definite red card, deserved it.

Agree. Talk about beyond the horizontal, he was closer to vertical.
Cardiff need to close out this second half. Two more tries to make it a BP will be crucial, especially with Racing Metro already with a TBP in Scotland.

 

[dullonien]

A win's a win I suppose, but the Blues made hard work of that! They should have secured a bonus point win really, but they're still in a good position in the group. Too many mistakes from the Blues to really drive home the one man advantage they had for much of the game. LI deserve some credit aswell, because they battled hard and fully deserved the bonus point they picked up.

 

[TRF_Cymro]

Been summed up. Blues played well in patches and that was about it.

 

[Draggs]

Cardiff made hard work of it.
I can honestly see them losing to LI or Edinburgh away, unless they get sorted out.
Once Halfpenny, Pretorius, Roberts, and Henson are back hopefully it will be a different story.

 

[psychic duck]

Cardiff made hard work of it.
I can honestly see them losing to LI or Edinburgh away, unless they get sorted out.
Once Halfpenny, Pretorius, Roberts, and Henson are back hopefully it will be a different story.

you have far too much faith in Henson considering the amount of times he's gone AWOL

 

[kovana]

Who is Singler?
Also, The news here reported that Ofisa Treviranus, the Samoan loosie, has signed with London Irish... A good replacement for George Stowers.

Crowd was 10,358.

 

[Draggs]

you have far too much faith in Henson considering the amount of times he's gone AWOL

Nah, this is it. I can feel it.
Considering his only competition is either Dan Parks or Ceri Sweeney, he is in a good position.