European Club Rugby : Gloucester draw first blood from Biarritz

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Gloucester draw first blood from Biarritz

Gloucester Rugby	22 - 10	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque
Kingsholm, Gloucester Att: 11,723
Referee: Peter Allan
Saturday 11th October 2008, 17:30
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Highlights Round 1: Gloucester v Biarritz

Olly Barkley clearls Gloucester's line

Match report

Gloucester ground out a win based on the boot of Olly Barkley as they got themselves in shape to travel across the Severn Bridge to meet Cardiff Blues in round two next weekend.

If it wasn’t at all pretty, it was good enough to give last season‘s quarter-finalists a winning start to their campaign with newcomer Barkley providing 14 points as he punished the French visitors’ indiscipline.

Scottish referee Peter Allen sent Biarritz skipper Jerome Thion to the sin-bin afer a series of offences at the rucks and mauls, although his departure to the sidelines came a few minutes after Olly Morgan had been given a 10 minute breather for a dangerous tackle.

Barkley ended with four penalties and a conversion of James Simpson-Daniel’s 18th Heineken Cup try, but he also missed with three others. After his departure, Ryan Lamb added a fifth penalty to put the final nail in the Biarritz coffin.

The game started with a flurry of penalties with three strikes from Barkley overshadowing a drop goal from Julien Peyrelongue. Then came the one decisive move of the half from the home side as they stole a line-out close to the Biarritz line and moved it wide to the left to allow Simpson-Daniel a clear run in.

The conversion gave Gloucester a 16-3 interval lead, but the game was back in the melting pot two minutes after the re-start when a break by Romain Cabannes paved the way for left wing Jean-Baptiste Gobelet to take an inside pas and cross for a try at the posts.

Peyrelongue added the simple conversion, but that was the end of the visitors’ points. Two more penalties came Gloucester’s way and so did the four match points.

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Gloucester Rugby

Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque

Pos

Player

Pos

Jean-Baptiste Gobelet

Replacements

Penalty Tries

First half timeline
3	Gloucester Rugby	Penalty kick - O Barkley
9	Gloucester Rugby	Penalty kick - O Barkley
10	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Drop kick - J Peyrelongue
21	Gloucester Rugby	Yellow card - O Morgan
29	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Yellow card - J Thion
30	Gloucester Rugby	Penalty kick - O Barkley
38	Gloucester Rugby	Try - J Simpson-Daniel
40	Gloucester Rugby	Conversion - O Barkley
Second half timeline
42	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Try - J Gobelet
43	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Conversion - J Peyrelongue
52	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - B Bourrust on for M Moala
52	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - P Som on for M Carizza
56	Gloucester Rugby	Substitution - R Lawson on for G Cooper
57	Gloucester Rugby	Penalty kick - O Barkley
58	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - A Masi on for B Thiery
65	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - E Coetzee on for F Barcella
70	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - F Barcella on for B August
72	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	Substitution - P Bidabe on for R Cabannes
73	Gloucester Rugby	Substitution - L Vainikolo on for O Barkley
78	Gloucester Rugby	Penalty kick - R Lamb

Results so far

Gloucester Rugby

Date	Stage	Opposition	Score
23/1/09	Pool 6	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	L 10-24
18/1/09	Pool 6	Cardiff Blues	L 12-16
13/12/08	Pool 6	Rugby Calvisano	W 48-5
6/12/08	Pool 6	Rugby Calvisano	W 40-17
19/10/08	Pool 6	Cardiff Blues	L 24-37
11/10/08	Pool 6	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	W 22-10

Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque

Date	Stage	Opposition	Score
23/1/09	Pool 6	Gloucester Rugby	W 24-10
17/1/09	Pool 6	Rugby Calvisano	W 23-15
13/12/08	Pool 6	Cardiff Blues	L 6-10
5/12/08	Pool 6	Cardiff Blues	L 17-21
18/10/08	Pool 6	Rugby Calvisano	W 41-10
11/10/08	Pool 6	Gloucester Rugby	L 10-22

Previous Heineken Cup meetings

Date	Stage	Home	Score	Away
Sat 16th Jan 10	Pool 2	Gloucester Rugby	23 - 8	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque
Sat 17th Oct 09	Pool 2	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	42 - 15	Gloucester Rugby
Fri 23rd Jan 09	Pool 6	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque	24 - 10	Gloucester Rugby
Sat 11th Oct 08	Pool 6	Gloucester Rugby	22 - 10	Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque

Heineken CupHistory

Gloucester Rugby

2008/09 - Pool 6

2007/08 - Quarter Finals

2006/07 - Pool 2

2004/05 - Pool 6

2003/04 - Quarter Finals

2002/03 - Pool 2

2000/01 - Semi Finals

Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque

2008/09 - Pool 6

2007/08 - Pool 4

2006/07 - Quarter Finals

2005/06 - Runners up

2004/05 - Semi Finals

2003/04 - Semi Finals

2002/03 - Quarter Finals

2001/02 - Pool 3

2000/01 - Quarter Finals

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