Aviva Premiership - Reading, 1 January 2011, 15:15 local, 15:15 GMT
London Irish (17) 24 - 25 (9) Bath Rugby (FT)

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Timeline

Time London Irish  Score  Bath Rugby
0 start of first half start of first half
2 Tagicakibau - try
Malone - conversion		 7 - 0
7 Malone - penalty goal 10 - 0
31 10 - 3 Barkley - penalty goal
34 10 - 6 Barkley - penalty goal
37 Thorpe - try 15 - 6
38 Malone - conversion 17 - 6
40+1 end of first half 17 - 9 Barkley - penalty goal
end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
45 Bell - sub on
Barnes - sub off
55 Thorpe - yellow card
59 17 - 16 Claassens - try
Barkley - conversion
60 Dermody - sub on
Rautenbach - sub off		 Grewcock - sub off
Fernandez Lobbe - sub on
63 17 - 19 Barkley - penalty goal
64 Mapusua - sub on
Malone - sub off
Hodgson - sub off
Allinson - sub on
66 Roche - sub on
Stowers - sub off
Casey - sub on
Garvey - sub off
Ojo - try		 22 - 19
67 Bowden - conversion 24 - 19
70 Dixon - sub on
Mears - sub off
72 24 - 22 Barkley - penalty goal
73 Murphy - sub on
Corbisiero - sub off		 Abendanon - sub on
Cuthbert - sub off
74 McMillan - sub on
Claassens - sub off
79 24 - 25 Barkley - penalty goal
80 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half

Notes

 
Result Bath Rugby won by a margin of 1 point
Aviva Premiership points Bath Rugby 4, London Irish 1 (1 losing bonus)
 
Ground name Madejski Stadium, Reading
Attendance 11811
 
Referee GM Garner

Teams

London Irish Bath Rugby
Tries Tagicakibau (2), Thorpe (37), Ojo (66) Tries Claassens (59)
Cons Malone (2, 38), Bowden (67) Cons Barkley (59)
Pens Malone (7) Pens Barkley (31, 34, 40, 63, 72, 79)
    Team
15 FB
Delon Armitage
14 W
Topsy Ojo
13 C
Elvis Seveali'i
12 C
Dan Bowden
11 W
Sailosi Tagicakibau
10 FH
Chris Malone
9 SH
Paul Hodgson (c)
1 P
Alex Corbisiero
2 H
James Buckland
3 P
Faan Rautenbach
4 L
Nick Kennedy
5 L
Matt Garvey
6 F
Richard Thorpe
55
7 F
Steffon Armitage
8 N8
George Stowers
    Replacements
16
Brian Blaney
17 P
Clarke Dermody
18 P
Dan Murphy
19 L
Bob Casey
20 N8
Kieran Roche
21 FH
Seilala Mapusua
22
Ryan Lamb
23 SH
Darren Allinson
    Team
15 FB
Jack Cuthbert
14 W
Matt Carraro
13 C
Olly Barkley
12 C
Shontayne Hape
11 W
Matt Banahan
10 FH
Butch James
9 SH
Michael Claassens
1 P
David Barnes
2 H
Lee Mears
3 P
David Wilson
4 L
Stuart Hooper
5 L
Danny Grewcock
6 F
Luke Watson (c)
7 F
Lewis Moody
8 N8
Simon Taylor
    Replacements
16 H
Pieter Dixon
17 P
Duncan Bell
18
Aaron Jarvis
19 L
Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe
20
Ben Skirving
21 SH
Mark McMillan
22
Sam Vesty
23 C
Nick Abendanon

Match stats

London Irish   Bath Rugby
3 Tries 1
3 from 3 Conversion goals 1 from 1
1 from 2 Penalty goals 6 from 7
80.0% Kick at goal success 87.5%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
24 Kicks from hand 17
101 Passes 74
76 Runs 93
236 Metres run with ball 235
Attacking
4 Clean breaks 1
5 Defenders beaten 6
2 Offloads 2
66 from 71 (93.0%) Rucks won 76 from 76 (100.0%)
1 from 1 (100.0%) Mauls won 8 from 8 (100.0%)
8 Turnovers conceded 15
Defensive
88/6 Tackles made/missed 79/5
93.6% Tackling success rate 94.0%
Set pieces
10 won, 1 lost (90.9%) Scrums on own feed 8 won, 0 lost (100.0%)
8 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Lineouts on own throw 15 won, 1 lost (93.8%)
Discipline
10 Penalties conceded 7
1/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Irish stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB DA Armitage 0/1 0 2/5/8 39 1 1 1 1 1/0 1/0 0 0/0
W Ojo 1/0 5 1/2/5 29 0 1 1 0 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Seveali'i 0/0 0 0/9/3 11 0 0 0 1 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Bowden 0/1 2 3/10/2 2 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 2 0/0
W Tagicakibau 1/0 5 0/2/9 29 1 1 0 1 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Malone 0/1 7 13/9/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Hodgson 0/0 0 4/37/2 1 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Corbisiero 0/0 0 0/2/12 20 1 1 0 0 7/0 0/0 2 0/0
H Buckland 0/0 0 0/0/9 25 0 0 0 1 10/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Rautenbach 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Kennedy 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 10/0 5/1 2 0/0
L Garvey 0/0 0 0/1/4 3 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Thorpe 1/0 5 0/0/7 41 1 0 0 1 7/2 1/0 1 1/0
F SE Armitage 0/0 0 0/2/2 0 0 0 0 1 7/1 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Stowers 0/0 0 0/3/7 30 0 1 0 1 4/0 1/0 0 0/0
(P) Dermody 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Murphy 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Casey 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
(N8) Roche 0/0 0 0/1/1 2 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Mapusua 0/0 0 0/2/1 4 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Allinson 0/0 0 1/15/1 0 0 0 0 1 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

Bath stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Cuthbert 0/0 0 2/2/9 78 1 2 0 0 1/1 1/0 0 0/0
W Carraro 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 2 5/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Barkley 0/0 20 3/6/4 9 0 1 1 0 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Hape 0/0 0 0/0/3 7 0 0 0 3 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
W Banahan 0/0 0 0/1/7 7 0 0 0 2 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH James 0/0 0 5/17/0 0 0 0 0 2 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Claassens 1/0 5 7/28/6 8 0 1 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Barnes 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Mears 0/0 0 0/0/8 23 0 1 0 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Wilson 0/0 0 0/2/4 4 0 0 1 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Hooper 0/0 0 0/3/4 4 0 0 0 0 10/0 1/0 1 0/0
L Grewcock 0/0 0 0/0/6 4 0 0 0 0 1/0 2/0 0 0/0
F Watson 0/0 0 0/1/15 42 0 1 0 2 8/0 8/0 1 0/0
F Moody 0/0 0 0/0/7 7 0 0 0 2 8/1 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Taylor 0/0 0 0/0/13 39 0 0 0 0 6/1 2/0 0 0/0
(H) Dixon 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Bell 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Fernandez Lobbe 0/0 0 0/0/4 2 0 0 0 0 2/0 1/0 0 0/0
(SH) McMillan 0/0 0 0/12/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Abendanon 0/0 0 0/0/1 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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