Cockerill furious despite Tigers leap up the table
Leicester 17 Gloucester 12
Leicester Tigers shot up to second place in the Aviva Premiership after a brutal arm-wrestle with fellow title-chasers, Gloucester.
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Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill
A hugely-physical contest saw referee Andrew Small award four yellow cards - two for each side - and come in for some stinging criticism from Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill for his handling of the scrums.
Leicester enjoyed almost complete dominance in that area of the park but Small only awarded one of his four sin-bins against Gloucester's double-figure penalty count at the set-piece.
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"They got penalised ten times at the scrum and were destroyed for most of the game," said a furious Cockerill. "But they only had one man in the bin from that. Where is the consistency."
Tigers centre Anthony Allen scored the only try of the game early in the second half, just minutes after the Cherry & Whites had opened up a 9-3 lead.
By that stage, Gloucester prop Shaun Knight and Tigers half-backs Ben Youngs and George Ford had all been yellow-carded and when the visitors' lock Will James joined them, Geordan Murphy kicked the hosts into an 11-9 lead, with Ford off the field.
Ford - who started after Toby Flood pulled out with injury - made up for two first-half misses by landing a pair of kicks in the final quarter but Freddie Burns' fourth penalty made it 17-12 going into the closing stages.
Gloucester laid siege to the Tigers line and a thrilling climax ended with a turn over before Ben Youngs booted the ball into the stands to the delight of a 24,000 sell-out.
For the full story, see Monday's Leicester Mercury.
Comments
by wigono
Sunday, December 30 2012, 11:54AM
“i can count at least two occasions where we had 4 onto 3 with at maximum 6 yards from their line= no points.. on one occasion salvi (a highly rated player in my opinion) had two pos' three backs outside him 4-5 yards to the line, instead of a quick easy pass he tried to go solo = no points WHY???= is there so little confidence in his passing? or is it little confidence in the backs having the ball. When will they learn it's a team game”
by Oadbylad
Sunday, December 30 2012, 11:11AM
“Cockeral and his coaching staff have been in charge now for 4 years and i do honestly think we are playing the worst rugby I've ever seen at Welford road
I posted on another article that we need a go to plan when a man up!!!
just how many points have scored this season when we find ourselves in this situation ?”
by Bundy
Sunday, December 30 2012, 9:27AM
“It was Geordan Murphy who finally kicked the ball out to end the game, not Ben Youngs.”
by wigono
Saturday, December 29 2012, 9:47PM
“The ref was poor, but that is no excuse. so much territory, pressure, and dominance not converted into points,chance after chance squandered. At the end i was virtually hoping Gloucester would score that would give the tigers squad the kick up the backside they thoroughly deserve. i'm not wasting any more money watching the same dross.”