Blew It Again

Credit to Irish for their fighting spirit but Quins really should have won a game where they were leading 27-15 with less than a quarter of an hour to go.

So a 27-27 draw felt more like a heavy defeat - specially following some other indiscplined performances.

Curtis Rona got the visitors off to a good start, but  Quins got their act together and  tries from Marcus Smith and Mike Brown (right) put us in front only for Motu Matu'u tio close the gap to 17-12 at the break.

Scott Steele increased the margin,  and with Smith on form with his kicking the lead was stretched to 12 points.

However, things changed when White deliberately knocked on and was sent to the bin - the extra man told as Tuisue burst over.

In a tense finale Smith gave away a penalty  and from the line-out Hoskins was able to go over with Jackson slotting  the conversion to secure the draw.

Fortunately for Quins, he missed with one last chance as he went for a penalty from the half -way line.That would have added insult to injury.