Bristol vs London welsh

Great performance so far by Welsh exiles

0-12


Bristol Rugby team to face London Welsh on Friday 21st October at the Memorial Stadium (7.45pm KO):

Sean Marsden; George Watkins, Jack Tovey, Junior Fatialofa, Matt Williams; Matty James, Tom Slater; Darren Crompton, Rhys Lawrence, Jason Hobson, Mariano Sambucetti, Roy Winters, Josh Ovens, James Merriman, Iain Grieve (c).

Replacements: Ross Johnston, Mark Irish, Darren Barry, Dan Montagu, Louis Silver, Mark Davies, Ben Mosses.

London Welsh:

15. Edd Thrower, 14. Will Hurrell, 13. Hudson Tonga’uiha, 12. Simon Whatling, 11. Liam Gibson, 10. Gordon Ross, 9. Rob Lewis, 1. Guillermo Roan, 2. Dan George, 3. Greg Bateman, 4. Adam Brown, 5. Martin Purdy, 6. Jon Mills ©, 7. Mike Denbee, 8. Ed Jackson.

Replacements: 16. Saul Nelson, 17. Shawn Pittman, 18. Billy Moss, 19. Matt Corker, 20. Lee Beach,
21. Jack Moates, 22. Seb Jewell.

Match officials
Referee: JP Doyle
Referee's assistants: Ross Campbell & Chris Sharp





Live feed

http://www.london-welsh.co.uk/rugby_newsroom_article.asp?id=765

Live Sky sports 2

Bristol just scored a run away from their own line...

5-12

It's a very entertaining game so far maes, looks likely to be a real high scorer.

is there a stream of it anywhere? been trying to get on one

THats brizzle with a penalty pulling it back to 10-12...

Have sent you a PM mckay


3 more for Welsh though maes, Ross is a good 10 for them.

10-15

equalled by Gordon Ross for Welsh, 10-15

Great try for Welsh, lovely inside ball and great line from Thrower from full back.

GReat try indeed... This team like to run it "the Welsh Way"!!! Whatling at 12 inside to Thrower at 15

10-20

Bristol inexperience in the midfield showed though, was a huge hole that opened up for Thrower to go through.

Jayzus did you see the sideburns and tache on the Welsh loosehead, quality.

Shame he can't scrummage for shoite though, looks very tall and lean for a prop to be honest.

Agreed that this Exile team could do with a bit more punch in the set piece if they have ambitions of Premiership domination...!

Sadly maes, even if they win this division at a canter they wouldn't be going up to the Premiership, as Old Deer Park is not up to scratch to meet the ground criteria, which is a shame.

Ozzy3213 wrote:Sadly maes, even if they win this division at a canter they wouldn't be going up to the Premiership, as Old Deer Park is not up to scratch to meet the ground criteria, which is a shame.

They might as well just ring fence the Premiership.

it does make a bit of a mockery of having divisions. how are the smaller teams meant to develop better grounds? there just isn't the money there unless they get a bigger share of the tv rights. RFU showing itself to be short sighted again

I think at present only Leeds and Bristol have the facilities to go up this year, although I think Cornish Pirates are making improvements which may be completed before the start of next season which may also make them eligible to be promoted.

For what it's worth I think it's bollix. I understand you want to have certain standards of facilities in the top tier, but if you win the Championship I think you should be allowed to go up and given 3 years to get the ground up to scratch.

Here is the league as it stands in the English Championship

1 Bristol 28
2 London Welsh 25
3 Cornish Pirates 23
4 Doncaster 23
5 Bedford 22
6 Rotherham Titans 22

Welsh win this they go top. a Bonus point and defending a more than 7 point lead would put them 1 ahead in the Championship...

All they would need then is a ground share or a 10,000 seater stand donation... should their form continue

Brizzle missed a penalty as the ref blows the whistle leaving Welsh winning 10-23 at halftime...

mckay1402 wrote:RFU showing itself to be short sighted again

RFU need to grow some balls and demote the powers of the PR ltd... they are cocking up English rugby a treat.

The daft thing is, Leeds currently sit 9th, which should mean they have no real chance of clawing their way to the top and gaining promotion, but due to the ludicrous play off system in the Championship, they only need to move up 1 place to 8th, and could still conceivably win the whole shebang and get promoted again. It is a mental system.

System has no logic at all...!

I think if Welsh did make it that there would be funds made available.. There are a great deal of valuable connections in that club...

I heard rumours when I was there for the Earth Quake match

Would love to see it maes. Other teams currently outside of the top flight in England that I would one day like to see back there are London Scottish, Richmond and Blackheath.

Would also like to see Cornish Pirates make the step up.

The Premiership is a great league, but I do feel that it is stagnating a little and changes need to be made to the structure of it, and to the Championship, but that is for another thread and another day I think.

Back to this game, I am looking forward to seeing if Jack Moates gets on for Welsh, as he is a London Irish academy boy on loan, and we have high hopes for him.

Interesting to hear what goes on in the changing room at half time, they have the coaches mic'ed up...!

Bristol back in the game.

Very Tidy Rugby league style try their by Brizzle...

Followed some very good pressure

22-23

Welsh need to pull their fingers out now. They have a great backline and an athletic pack... Bristol are beating them up upfront, need to run them ragged...

Ross is having a great game. lovely pass their to Hurrel on the wing...

Whatling and Rob Lewis are doing a great job wither side of him though too

penalty Welsh

for offside by brizzle. rather a blatant one too...

22-26

Bristol pulled a penalty back there... 25-26 63 mins gone

but they have given away two penalties to Welsh in the last five mins. .. now a free kick at a scrum

plenty of fight in both teams though

try for ed jackson in the corner

25- 31

great guidance by Ross

8 in 8 games for Jackson, that's some tryscoring record for a back row forward.

gerat record...

BRFC pulled a kick back its 28-33 and welsh a scraping to stay in this

some good tackles going in though no matter how hard BRFC try

Welsh having to dig in here.

76 mins gone and welsh have been on their line for an age

great turn over, and I think Gordon Ross should be angry at himself for that clearance kick, it barely made the 22.

first mistake he's made all night...

ross gets another chance

bristol lifting early... this is a get out of jail card from Bristol


can welsh get a fifth try in the dying seconds ?

great try bristol

Great try from Tovey, heartbreak for Welsh.

Too true

gutted i couldn't get a stream of this. Looks like an awesome game. great win for welsh

Almost had a heart attack.. Thought for sure we'd blown it with those lineouts. Still, win's a win and we'll be sure to get cidered up.

damn I read the score wrong. thought welsh had won