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Author Topic: Quins Vs Grenoble  (Read 2193 times)

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:34* »
Lang Pen
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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:40* »
74 Mins: YELLOW CARD - Dave Ward

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:48* »
80 MINS: TRY QUINS - Dombrandt

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:50* »
Well, prevented them getting any points for the table. Second half seemed quite a lot less interesting from following the game here and on Twitter.

What was the card for?

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:51* »
High tackle

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 16:57* »
Dombrandt gives us some go forward that we've missed for a while.

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 17:30* »
Pretty good match, try bonus point secured pretty early on, but conceded tries under pressure too easily.

Ward's discipline again an issue only on as a sub and yellow carded

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 18:04* »
Our attack was brilliant in the first half. Lots of inspiration and creativity. Defence was a bit porous!

Second half we tightened up well and kept going. Some odd decisions from the ref at the breakdown and a few things missed. We weren't 'hanging on' but it was quite close. They were going for it as it was their last chance to progress. 

A good performance and a good atmosphere, all in all. Can we get a win in Agen? Fingers crossed!

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« Reply #23 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 18:46* »
Far from an 80 minute performance but really pleased with the result and how the team dealt with the periods where things weren’t going well. Last season we’d lrobably have found a way to lose that.

Special mention to Dombrandt for chasing down the Grenoble 23 in the 79th minute. Great effort from the man with the “uni rig”.
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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 19:00* »
Dombrandt's chase down was fantastic!
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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 19:03* »
Didn't affect the game unduly as we scored soon afterwards, but the touch judge not identifying that Kunatani had scored his try in the first half was pretty pathetic.

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 19:40* »
A few thoughts now I'm back from the game:

Seemed to me that Wallace was a lot more involved than previously after he came on. Looked to tackle and jackal at every opportunity.
I pity the poor Grenoble 22 after he was tackled by the brick outhouse that is Ibuanopke!
DC's decision making as Captain was a lot better than the season where he *was* captain.
Ward's yellow card for the high tackle was the Ref's decision alone (no consultation with ARs or TMO. Did his "reputation" count against him? Who can say.
Ref missed a couple of wayward line-out throws that were distinctly not straight for both sides. His advantage & advantage over calls were a lot different to a Prem Rugby ref (calling advantage over before the team with the ball has passed beyond the line where the infringement had occurred for instance).
Dombrandt is surely up for Discovery of the Season in any team.
We struggled to contain their maul, which given we were improving in that area is a bit worrying.
Grenoble in the 2nd half were doing what we did in our Premiership-winning season: Flooding the channel with receivers on a breakthrough. That meant there was always someone on hand to offload to as a player is tackled, causing our defence all the sorts of problems we used to cause otheres. We should've spotted that.

I'd say that the performance was about a 6.5 out of ten. We let them start the game at speed, pulled the first half back to a decent lead with the bonus point in the bag, then let them push us harder than the scoreline suggests.We know we can do better, & have seen that this season even in games we've lost (e.g. Sarries).

As for this competition, we're in by far the toughest pool. Until today, all 4 teams could have been the pool winner, where other pools have already got clear winners & losers. In some ways this might be better for us (if we qualify) as we will have been properly tested, whereas other teams will have been able to run up cricket scores against the likes of Timisoara & Enisei-STM, not that I begrudge them their places in the competition as I think it's good for the sport that teams in the level below have a pathway for playing with the bigger boys. As things stand, Our pool has been Home wins only. However, I think that may change next week. There's no way for either Agen or Grenoble to qualify even as one of the "best 3 runners up". Yes, they're both playing at home, but the fact that they're out of the competition may mean their coaches have more of an eye on the Top 14. Grenoble and Agen sit 12th & 13th in the Top 14 table on 20 & 17 points respectively. The way promotion & relegation works, the 14th placed is automatically relegated, while the 13th place team plays off against the second placed team in the ProD2. While Perpignan seem destined for the automatic relegation, Grenoble and Agen are at real risk of being the other team embroiled in that tussle, so they may decide to rest key players next week for what are effectively dead rubbers & concentrate more on the Top14.

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 20:32* »
Apparently there wasn't a TMO, is there supposed to be one????

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 20:38* »
This has been the case in other Challenge Cup matches, seems pretty poor that it cannot be arranged, presumably because none of the TV companies are providing any coverage.

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Re: Quins Vs Grenoble
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 12-Jan-2019, 20:40* »
Apparently there wasn't a TMO, is there supposed to be one????

Hmmm, looking in the programme, there's none listed, so maybe there wasn't one. It's a definite oversight by EPCR, as there's enough going on in any game to need to check things back...

This has been the case in other Challenge Cup matches, seems pretty poor that it cannot be arranged, presumably because none of the TV companies are providing any coverage.

BT Sport don't cover every Premiership game, but there's a TMO at every game...

 

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