Guinness Premiership - Reading, 1 October 2008, 19:45 local, 18:45 GMT
London Irish (11) 28 - 6 (6) Sale Sharks (FT)

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Timeline

Time London Irish  Score  Sale Sharks
0 start of first half start of first half
17 Hewat - penalty goal 3 - 0
29 3 - 3 Hodgson - penalty goal
32 Hewat - drop goal 6 - 3
37 Bell - yellow card
Cox - sub off
White - sub on
38 Thorpe - try 11 - 3
40 11 - 6 Hodgson - penalty goal
40+1 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
41 Rautenbach - sub on
Lea'aetoa - sub off
47 Briggs - sub off
Bruno - sub on
Lamont - sub on
Doherty - sub off
52 Hewat - try 16 - 6
54 Bruno - sub off
Briggs - sub on
55 Coetzee - sub off
Paice - sub on
Richards - sub on
Hodgson - sub off
Lewis-Roberts - sub on
Turner - sub off
56 Chabal - sub off
Abraham - sub on
61 Corbisiero - try
Hewat - conversion
23 - 6
62 Murphy - sub on
Corbisiero - sub off
67 Danaher - sub on
Hala'ufia - sub off
Thomas - sub on
Tait - sub off
76 Tagicakibau - try 28 - 6
77 Kennedy - sub off
Johnson - sub on
Hewat - sub off
Hickey - sub on
80 end of second half end of second half

Notes

 
Result London Irish won by a margin of 22 points
Guinness Premiership points London Irish 5 (1 try bonus), Sale Sharks 0
 
Ground name Madejski Stadium, Reading
Attendance 7563
 
Referee A Rowden

Teams

London Irish Sale Sharks
Tries Thorpe (38), Hewat (52), Corbisiero (61), Tagicakibau (76) Tries none
Cons Hewat (61) Cons none
Pens Hewat (17) Pens Hodgson (29, 40)
Drops Hewat (32) Drops none

Match stats

London Irish   Sale Sharks
4 Tries 0
1 from 1 Conversion goals 0 from 0
1 from 1 Penalty goals 2 from 2
100.0% Kick at goal success 100.0%
1 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
40 Kicks from hand 23
105 Passes 123
80 Runs 94
396 Metres run with ball 503
Attacking
1 Clean breaks 5
9 Defenders beaten 7
10 Offloads 7
52 from 54 (96.3%) Rucks won 58 from 65 (89.2%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
11 Turnovers conceded 25
Defensive
118/7 Tackles made/missed 83/9
94.4% Tackling success rate 90.2%
Set pieces
12 won, 1 lost (92.3%) Scrums on own feed 9 won, 1 lost (90.0%)
9 won, 1 lost (90.0%) Lineouts on own throw 17 won, 3 lost (85.0%)
Discipline
12 Penalties conceded 9
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Irish stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB DA Armitage 0/0 0 6/7/8 64 0 2 2 0 6/0 1/0 1 0/0
W Ojo 0/0 0 0/5/6 17 0 0 0 0 4/0 1/0 1 0/0
C Seveali'i 0/0 0 2/2/6 21 0 1 1 3 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Mapusua 0/1 0 0/7/6 22 0 0 2 1 6/0 0/1 0 0/0
W Tagicakibau 1/0 5 0/1/7 69 0 3 2 3 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Hewat 1/0 13 22/12/2 8 0 1 0 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Hodgson 0/0 0 3/35/1 0 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Corbisiero 1/0 5 0/2/6 53 1 1 0 0 2/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Coetzee 0/0 0 2/0/3 1 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Lea'aetoa 0/0 0 0/3/2 2 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Kennedy 0/0 0 0/0/3 27 0 0 0 0 2/0 5/1 0 0/0
L Casey 0/0 0 0/4/5 6 0 0 2 0 13/0 2/0 0 0/0
F Thorpe 1/0 5 0/4/7 39 0 1 0 0 11/0 0/0 3 0/0
F SE Armitage 0/0 0 1/2/7 27 0 0 0 0 16/2 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Hala'ufia 0/0 0 0/1/8 17 0 0 1 3 7/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Rautenbach 0/0 0 0/0/2 7 0 0 1 0 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
(H) Paice 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Murphy 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Johnson 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(N8) Danaher 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Richards 0/0 0 3/17/1 16 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Hickey 0/0 0 1/0/0 0 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 Tait 0/0 0 1/2/4 20 0 0 1 1 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Cueto 0/0 0 2/3/12 84 1 1 4 2 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
C McAlister 0/0 0 4/12/7 20 0 1 2 2 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Bell 0/0 0 1/3/1 0 0 0 1 1 2/1 0/0 2 1/0
W Doherty 0/0 0 0/1/5 44 1 0 0 0 1/1 0/0 1 0/0
FH Hodgson 0/0 6 10/26/7 58 0 0 1 1 2/1 1/0 0 0/0
SH Peel 0/0 0 3/52/9 72 2 0 1 1 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Sheridan 0/0 0 0/0/6 11 0 0 1 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Briggs 0/0 0 0/2/1 6 0 0 1 2 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Turner 0/0 0 0/3/0 0 0 0 0 0 4/3 0/0 0 0/0
L Schofield 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 1 4/0 4/0 0 0/0
L Cox 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 1 2/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Ormsby 0/0 0 0/3/8 8 0 0 1 4 5/0 1/0 1 0/0
F Fernandez Lobbe 0/0 0 0/5/10 56 1 0 0 3 11/0 6/0 0 0/0
N8 Chabal 0/0 0 2/4/7 28 0 0 2 4 2/0 3/1 0 0/0
(H) Bruno 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Lewis-Roberts 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) White 0/0 0 0/0/3 14 0 1 0 1 1/0 1/0 0 0/0
(N8) Abraham 0/0 0 0/1/3 2 0 2 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FB) Thomas 0/0 0 0/0/2 5 0 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Lamont 0/0 0 0/1/6 74 0 2 1 0 2/0 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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