Big Game Match Report - Marchant of Menace

Quins did the job in the end, holding on for a deserved if shaky 28-24 win against Gloucester with a squeaky-bum exciting kind of finish adding a gloss to a game that was for the first half hour a torpid encounter. The last ten minutes had a bit of theatre about them: down to 14 men with Clifford yellow carded, good last ditch defence against the Glos speed merchants, some headless chicken kicking and decision making from Danny Care and a thunderous response from another big crowd on a very chilly HQ evening under the lights. It made up for the first half, and it needed to. [Christmas cracker: what’s the similarity between the first thirty minutes of this game and a traditional Christmas pudding? They are both plum duff].