BRITISH & IRISH CUP — WEEK 7 ROUND UP

With three clubs already qualified and two others on the threshold of the last eight, it looks like being a good year for Championship sides in the British & Irish Cup.

Bristol held on to their slender advantage at a wet and windy Deramore Park

Bristol hung on to an 8-14 lead at a wet and windy Deramore Park on Friday night to beat the Ulster Ravens and now require a single point from their final game against Cardiff

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on Sunday to make the quarter-finals.

George Watkins collected a neat offload form Jack Tovey to score under the posts early on and Bristol added a penalty try in the second half.

Ravens’ lock James Simpson reduced the deficit to six points when he crashed over from five metres, and Bristol had to dig deep in the last few minutes to deny Ulster a home win.

“It’s amazing that we’ve won all the games in our pool and yet we still need another win in our final game,” Head Coach Liam Middleton told the Bristol website. “In my opinion, this is the toughest pool in the competition… we’ll take a lot of confidence into Sunday’s game and we expect a difficult encounter against Cardiff, because it was tough at Arms Park.”

Despite tries from from Tom Armes, Chris Locke, James Stephenson and Mark Atkinson, along with two James Pritchard conversions, Bedford were forced to work hard to make it five bonus point wins out of five, and book their place in the quarter-finals.

Stirling County staged a late revival at Brigehaugh on Saturday afternoon, with three tries of their own to push the Blues all the way.

In Pool 3, the Cornish Pirates, who won the Cup two seasons ago, were too strong for

The Mennaye Field — largely unchanged since the ’50s

Dundee High and ran out comfortable winners at the Mennaye Field on Sunday.

The Cornishmen qualified for the knock-out stages by virtue of a six try 34-14 win over the visitors, and only need to avoid defeat at Carmarthen next week to book home advantage in the next round.

Despite an 18th consecutive win in all competition, Newcastle Head Coach Dean Richards was less than happy either with his side’s performance or the refereeing.

“It was a scrappy game and there was a lack of control on our part,” Richards told the Newcastle website, adding: “if you don’t control the game then you don’t get the points that you deserve.”

Ref-basher Richards — unhappy with his own side and the officiating despite the win

Richards again joined the ranks of ref-bashers adding: “The referees’ perception of the scrum was totally not in line with anything else that we’ve come across this season…”

However, despite having two points deducted for fielding the cup-tied James Goode, the Falcons 16-6 victory over the Connacht Eagles at Kingston Park on Saturday was enough to see them through as winners of Pool 4. They need a win at Cross Keys this weekend to guarantee them a home berth in the semi-finals.

Neither Jersey nor Leeds will progress to the next stage. Before Carnegie defeated Jersey at St Peter on Saturday both sides were out of the running in Pool 5.

However, Rory Clegg continued his good start with Leeds by converting two of the visitors’ four tries and adding three penalties.

Despite winning 27-12, Leeds won’t be happy with their discipline in a second half in which they conceded 10 penalties, two penalty tries, yellow cards for Dominic Barrow and Sam Lockwood, and the sending-off of Chris Walker for foul play.

Moseley need a point from their final outing against Llanelli to ensure they top the Pool 6 table.

Although visitors London Scottish had no further interest in the competition before kick off, they pushed Moseley all the way at Billesley Common on Friday.

Four penalties from James Love were not enough to overhaul a try from ex-Scottish centre Charlie Hayter, converted by Glyn Hughes, to add to his two penalties.

In Pool 7, a 3-26 win for Rotherham at Brickfields spelt the end of cup action for Albion and leaves the Titans needing a bonus point win over Aberavon to have any chance of making the last eight.

Unfortunately, they also have to rely on Plymouth denying Munster A a point at Temple Hill — a tough ask.

And finally, a bonus point win against Llandovery would be enough for Nottingham to top Pool 8, provided that the visitors leave Meadow Lane empty handed. At least their destiny is in their own hands.

The Green and Whites built a 0-16 lead in the second half, aided by David Jackson’s 100th

Ton-up man David Jackson — 100 tries for Nottingham

try for the club, before the Knights clawed their way back to 14-16.

This weekend concludes the pool matches, and then it’s back to Championship action.

 

 

 

 

 

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