Saturday 19th March 2005
England 41 Chinese Taipei 0
England put last night’s loss to France behind them by beating Chinese Taipei 41-0 in the second day of the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong.  England’s performance showed they had gone some way to rediscover the impressive form they displayed yesterday morning in their wins over Georgia and Italy, but a few basic errors were still present by the three time Hong Kong Sevens winners.

Richard Haughton (Saracens) and Ugo Monye (NEC Harlequins) once again proved invaluable by both scoring tries (Haughton scored twice taking his tournament tally to six).  Also scoring tries for England were Ben Gollings, Henry Paul (Gloucester), Rob Thirlby (Penzance & Newlyn) and Neil Starling (Northampton Saints).  Ben Gollings was successful with two conversions and captain Simon Amor (Gloucester) secured another conversion to leave the final score at 41-0.

The clean sheet could prove crucial as the fight for the top two positions in Pool B continues.

England play Samoa today at 10.53am UK time.

Scorers:

England – Tries: Richard Haughton (2), Ben Gollings, Neil Starling, Ugo Monye, Henry Paul, Rob Thirlby

Conversions - Ben Gollings (2), Simon Amor


 

Teams:

England – Geoff Appleford (London Irish), Tony Roques (London Irish), Pat Sanderson (Worcester Warriors), Henry Paul (Gloucester), Ben Gollings, Simon Amor, Captain (Gloucester), Richard Haughton (Saracens)

Reps: Ugo Monye (NEC Harlequins), Neil Starling (Northampton Saints), Rob Thirlby (Penzance & Newlyn)

Reps not used: Peter Richards (London Wasps), Phil Dowson (Newcastle Falcons)

Chinese Taipei – Hsieh Cheung-Chung, Huang Han-Yang, Chang Wei-Cheng, Wang Kuo-Feng, Chen Chi-Chung, Chen Chih-Fei, Chang Chun-Ming

Reps: Pan Chih-Ming, Tung Yuan-Hsiang, Wu Chih-Wei

Reps not used: Sun Cheng-Yen, Wu Chih-Hsien

Referee: Eric Darriere (France)