| CARDIFF GIVE WARRIORS THE BLUES |
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| Friday, 19 February 2010 | |
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WARRIORS 7 – 30 BLUES  Max Evans dedicates his try to injured brother Thom. It was a bad night at the office for Glasgow who were on the wrong end of a 3-1 try scoreline and an impeccable goal-kicking display from the visitors’ All Blacks full-back Ben Blair. Home coach Sean Lineen was short of many of his frontline troops and Glasgow’s reserves did not do enough to enhance their position as Magners League leaders. Glasgow Warriors head coach, Sean Lineen said: “We were architects of the result. “We got a little bit carried away playing in certain areas. “We didn’t convert some great passages of play into points. “But most of all we didn’t control or respect the ball well enough and that was our downfall.” Cardiff had the possession early on, but when they were penalised for holding on to the ball it gave Warriors’ stand-off Ruaridh Jackson a penalty attempt from just inside the opposition half, but his kick went just wide of the post. After some good phases of play by Glasgow the visitors were penalised once again, this time for offside, Jackson was marginally wide again with his attempt, on this occasion from shorter range on the left. The penalty count continued. This time it was the home side that were penalised for a ruck infringement right in front of their own posts, Cardiff full-back Ben Blair goaled to put the Welsh team in the lead. Blair put away another penalty for the visitors, again from in front of the posts, to give them a six point lead. The penalties were coming thick and fast, as Cardiff flanker Ben White was penalised for breaking his binding in the scrum, but, sadly, Jackson missed again. The stand-off had taken a leg knock earlier in proceedings but he won’t look back on this performance with anything other than concern. Cardiff had the majority of possession at this point and when another penalty was conceded, for being offside just in front of Glasgow’s own try line, wing Hefin O’Hare was shown a yellow card. Blair then extended the visitors lead to nine points with the resultant penalty. The beginning of the second half started with a bang, Cardiff scrum-half Gareth Cooper stretching to get the ball over the line for the first try of the game after he had broken left from a close-range ruck. Blair converted to give his side a 16 point lead minutes from the restart. After some good offload play inside the Glasgow half, the away side worked a few phases of play before passing the ball out wide for centre Casey Laulala to go over for the second try of the evening. Blair once again was accurate with the boot to increase their lead to 23-0. Some great individual play by Cardiff wing Tom James saw him beat three defenders before going over in the corner. Blair was successful with the conversion, which increased the gap to 30 points. With 5 minutes left Glasgow make a break from deep in their own half up to the Cardiff 22, but Fergus Thomson knocked it on in the tackle. A try at full-time by Max Evans finally gave the home crowd something to cheer about. Colin Gregor converted to end the game at 7-30.
* = Member of Scottish Rugby's National Academy Cardiff Blues: Ben Blair; Tom James, Casey Laulala, Tom Shanklin, Chris Czekaj; Ceri Sweeney, Gareth Cooper, Taufa'ao Filise, T Rhys Thomas, Gary Powell, Deiniol Jones, Paul Tito CAPTAIN, Maama Molitika, Ben White, Xavier Rush Referee: Dudley Phillips (IRFU) |
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