Heineken Cup , Pool 5, 16 January 2010, 15:45 local, 15:45 GMT
Cardiff Blues (12) 36 - 19 (5) Sale Sharks (FT)

Timeline

Time Cardiff Blues  Score  Sale Sharks
0 start of first half start of first half
2 Blair - penalty goal 3 - 0
6 3 - 5 Koyamaibole - try
20 Blair - penalty goal 6 - 5
29 Halfpenny - penalty goal 9 - 5
33 Blair - penalty goal 12 - 5
39 end of first half end of first half
40
40 start of second half start of second half
42 Rees - try 17 - 5
44 Blair - conversion 19 - 5
46 Davies - try 24 - 5
47 Blair - conversion 26 - 5
48 26 - 10 Tait - try
49 26 - 12 Hodgson - conversion
53 Peel - sub off
Wigglesworth - sub on
55 Blair - penalty goal 29 - 12
56 GM Jones - sub on
Briggs - sub off
57 Tito - sub on
Jones - sub off
59 Kennedy - sub on
Thomas - sub off
61 Abraham - sub on
Koyamaibole - sub off
65 Halsall - yellow card
Kerr - sub on
Seymour - sub off
66 G Powell - sub on
Filise - sub off
69 Doherty - sub on
Cohen - sub off
70 Shanklin - sub on
Laulala - sub off
71 Thomas - sub on
GJ Williams - sub off
72 Rees - sub off
Cooper - sub on
77 29 - 19 Gaskell - try
Hodgson - conversion
78 Gaskell - sub off
CR Jones - sub on
79 Norton-Knight - sub on
Sweeney - sub off
80+1 ME Williams - yellow card
80+2 Rush - try
Blair - conversion
end of second half
end of half
36 - 19 end of second half
end of half
0
82 Rush - try
Blair - conversion
36 - 19

Notes

 
Result Cardiff Blues won by a margin of 17 points

Teams

Cardiff Blues Sale Sharks
Tries Rees (42), Davies (46), Rush (80) Tries Koyamaibole (6), Tait (48), Gaskell (77)
Cons Blair (44, 47, 80) Cons Hodgson (49, 77)
Pens Blair (2, 20, 33, 55), Halfpenny (29) Pens none

Match stats

Cardiff Blues   Sale Sharks
3 Tries 3
3 from 3 Conversion goals 2 from 3
5 from 6 Penalty goals 0 from 1
88.9% Kick at goal success 50.0%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
29 Kicks from hand 29
112 Passes 98
73 Runs 73
349 Metres run with ball 286
Attacking
4 Clean breaks 5
6 Defenders beaten 6
14 Offloads 8
52 from 52 (100.0%) Rucks won 60 from 60 (100.0%)
7 from 7 (100.0%) Mauls won 3 from 3 (100.0%)
19 Turnovers conceded 16
Defensive
79/6 Tackles made/missed 67/6
92.9% Tackling success rate 91.8%
Set pieces
12 won, 1 lost (92.3%) Scrums on own feed 7 won, 4 lost (63.6%)
13 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Lineouts on own throw 9 won, 1 lost (90.0%)
Discipline
10 Penalties conceded 15
1/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Cdiff stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Blair 0/0 18 8/3/5 45 0 0 0 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Halfpenny 0/0 3 1/3/4 44 1 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 2 0/0
C Laulala 0/0 0 2/5/9 44 1 1 0 4 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Roberts 0/0 0 0/2/4 10 0 0 0 0 8/2 0/0 0 0/0
W James 0/0 0 2/3/3 23 0 1 0 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Sweeney 0/0 0 8/16/8 30 1 0 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Rees 1/0 5 6/45/6 26 0 2 0 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Jenkins 0/0 0 1/1/1 7 0 0 0 0 7/1 0/0 1 0/0
H GJ Williams 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/1 0/0 1 0/0
P Filise 0/1 0 0/2/2 5 0 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Davies 1/0 5 0/2/5 5 0 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Jones 0/0 0 0/2/2 5 0 0 0 0 5/0 5/0 0 0/0
F AT Powell 0/0 0 0/4/3 9 0 1 0 1 9/0 0/0 0 0/0
F ME Williams 0/0 0 0/2/3 4 0 0 0 2 7/1 4/0 4 1/0
N8 Rush 1/0 5 0/10/14 84 1 1 0 3 4/1 1/0 0 0/0
(R) Thomas 0/0 0 0/2/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) G Powell 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Tito 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 3/0 0 0/0
(R) Cooper 0/0 0 0/7/0 0 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Norton-Knight 0/0 0 1/2/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Shanklin 0/0 0 0/0/1 8 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Sale stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Macleod 0/0 0 4/7/8 38 0 1 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Cueto 0/0 0 3/4/11 91 2 1 0 1 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Tait 1/0 5 0/3/6 31 1 1 0 0 5/1 0/0 1 0/0
C Thomas 0/0 0 0/0/4 11 0 0 0 1 6/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Cohen 0/0 0 1/1/4 0 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Hodgson 0/1 4 14/21/3 9 0 0 0 4 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Peel 0/0 0 5/29/3 1 0 0 0 2 1/1 0/0 2 0/0
P Lewis-Roberts 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 1 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Briggs 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Halsall 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 1 1/0
L Schofield 0/0 0 0/0/4 1 0 0 0 3 3/0 3/0 1 0/0
L Gaskell 1/1 5 0/2/9 29 1 0 0 1 4/1 6/0 1 0/0
F Fearns 0/0 0 0/1/4 14 1 0 0 0 4/1 0/0 2 0/0
F Seymour 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 2 0/0
N8 Koyamaibole 1/0 5 0/6/8 42 0 3 0 0 4/1 0/0 1 0/0
(R) GM Jones 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Kerr 0/0 0 0/0/2 2 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) CR Jones 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Abraham 0/0 0 0/1/4 11 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 1 0/0
(R) Wigglesworth 0/0 0 2/23/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 1 0/0
(R) Kennedy 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Doherty 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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