Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Leicester vs Wasps EDF Cup Semi Final highlights
Leicester Tigers booked a place in this year's EDF Energy Anglo-Welsh Cup Final with a 34-24 victory over London Wasps in an entertaining clash at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Andy Goode featured prominently as he overshadowed England's new star flyhalf Danny Cipriani. Goode scored one try, created another two and kicked 14 points, his inspired performance showing his class, maturity and of course, experience.
Cipriani did show touches of brilliance though, scoring a great try of his own as well as putting Paul Sackey away for a try with a neat flick pass on one occasion.
Wasps battled to the end but tries from Seru Rabeni, Dan Hipkiss and Martin Castrogiovanni sealed Leicester's win.
The Tigers will meet Ospreys in the final at Twickenham on 12 April, which is set to be quite an occasion.
Posted at 9:12 am | 29 comments
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Nick March 25, 2008 9:37 am
Best club game i've watched in a long while. Really looking forward to Leicester beating the Ospreys in the final!
rugby4king March 25, 2008 10:30 am
better than any 6 nation game this year wot a game leicester v. ospreys will be. Leicester win.
hackneygriffin March 25, 2008 11:00 am
So tell me again why we need to change the laws?
Dave March 25, 2008 11:37 am
I have to agree with hackneygriffin, surely games like this show thatRUGBY ISN'T BROKEN, WE DON'T NEED TO FIX IT. I don't want ELVs in the northern hemisphere, it's just another step in turning union into league. See the video of the penalty try from a couple of days ago. Madness.PS Well done Tigers!
Anonymous March 25, 2008 11:52 am
Beautiful tries! But i think in the 2nd try, Reddan play very well the beggining of the action but give the ball too early to Sackey (the finish was difficult for him).PS: for a frenchie like me, there is a difference between "Sin Bin" and "Yellow Card" (region or slang)?TheObit
Bonzai March 25, 2008 12:12 pm
The real reason they are changing the rules is so that thick football fans can begin to understand whats happening, and so that they don't have to watch a scoreless boring match. But as the commentator at the Ospreys v Saracens game said, 'how long has it been since we saw a scoreless game, or even a scoreless half?' I certainly can't remember one.
Sharky March 25, 2008 12:25 pm
Bonzai, Biarritz vs Brive on the weekend was 0-0 after 50 minutes. :)There's your answer.
James March 25, 2008 1:38 pm
brilliant game, best i've watched for agesbetter than all the super 14 games i've actually seen so far, hopefully the final is just as goodagree with everyone about the rules aswell, just seems like they're changing them for the sake of it really
Sea-Bass March 25, 2008 2:22 pm
Loved to watch it and this shows that the Northern folks can play some beautiful rugby aswell! Hopefully the final will be played on even a higher level of skill and competition. Its going to be great!Ah yeah, Biarritz vs Brive was 0-0 till well in the 2nd half, but they were playing in the middle of a torrential rain fall and came closer to waterpolo than rugby! :-p
mo14k March 25, 2008 3:39 pm
Why isn't Goode playing for England?!?! He should have no problem getting on that sheet!! His play is excellent and most of the time under control!!!
Dave March 25, 2008 3:52 pm
Goode's problem has always been consistency. If he could do that every week he would have far more England caps than he has already.I remember watching him in the same match last year (EDF semi vs Sale), when he threw a simple pass for Hipkiss that bounced twice before reaching him and was about two yards forward. This may well be his last season as first choice at Tigers if all of the talk about Hernandez proves true.
Anonymous March 25, 2008 3:54 pm
Castrogiovanni's try was the bestgood offloads and finished off in such style by the big manI could almost swear the ground shook when he landed
Kerivoula March 25, 2008 4:25 pm
Goode just isn't international standard. He's great at this level and he had a stormer in this game, but if you've seen him on the international stage, he looks slow, physically not aggressive enough, and tactically brittle. He's been overshadowed by Wilkinson and now he's been over-taken by Cipriani who, though the papers say he was eclipsed by Goode, wasn't and also had a great game.
strutinho March 25, 2008 5:31 pm
why isn't hipkiss starting at 12 for england?! thats what we need, some power?imagine him and jamie noon in the centres against the all blacks!
strutinho March 25, 2008 5:33 pm
stick big les and sackey on the wings with boy wonder at 10! too bad about the full back situation in english rugby tho
will March 25, 2008 7:42 pm
The real reason we lost this game was not Goode overshadowing Cipriani, it was Wasps losing so many of their own lineouts, something nobody seems to have picked up on...On a different note, I reckon you could make up a pretty good back line just from Leicester and Wasps how about:9. Ellis10. Cipriani11. Sackey12. Flutey13. Hipkiss14. Varndell15. LewseyThat looks pretty good to me.
Third Centre March 25, 2008 10:14 pm
Thank you BBC for not showing this but instead showing the snorefest Saracens Ospreys game.......
Grimoald March 25, 2008 10:50 pm
The BBC aired both games live, this was the early one on BBC1, while the other semi was broadcast a bit later on BBC2, at least it was in England.
Third Centre March 26, 2008 1:15 pm
Ah my apologies then, it wasn't on BBC northern ireland which is what i get
Anonymous March 26, 2008 8:15 pm
As a wasps fan, i am disappointed to lose. On the other hand, what a game!Shame there isn't any replay's.
sullymonster March 27, 2008 12:12 am
nice to see so many england players playin well, itd be good if they could do that in a white shirt every now and again. bt all credit goode, cipriani, sackey and hipkiss especially. and great to see harry ellis back.
Martin Johnson March 28, 2008 2:45 pm
bring I think that these players from doth clubs daserve a chance for eng. From tigers: Chuter, Croft, Crane, kay, moody, ellis, goode(if he is consistant enough), hipkiss, and varndell. From Wasps: Vicary, cipriani, haskell, lewsey, payne, rees, sackey, shaw, and worsley. Castro's try was so funny lol
angus March 28, 2008 6:08 pm
to the guy who put the england team, you have so many other players from different clubs like strettle, noon, wilko(centre), vainakolo, flood, tait.Haskell is not very good he was always trying to make things that were not on and running like a centre, which he isn't.and to the guy who said no english fullback, lewsey, tait, balshaw-not-flood and ciprani.P.S. hernandez might play at fullback.
Anonymous May 11, 2008 2:40 pm
Anybody thinking of Sackey, Varndell, Ojo and Banahan on the wings against the Kiwis?
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