From the kick-off Gloucester give away a silly penalty gifting Irish a chance to cancel Laidlaw's points.

Irish getting back into the game now but concede a penalty at the scrum taking from their momentum.

The game has now come alive with 11 points in the last 5 minutes. Both teams attacking more trying to win the game.

Good try by Gloucester almost straight off the kick-off. A good offload and a simple ball through the hands gave Purdy the ball who had plenty of pace to finish off in the corner.

The ball hits the post and Gloucester come flying in and win the penalty infront of the posts. Laidlaw makes no mistake and converts.

Gloucester kick to touch and disrupt the Irish lineout winning the penalty which Laidlaw hits the post.

We are back underway here at the Madejski.

The half comes to an end in a poor game so far but both teams doing well in defence.

London Irish have a scrum on the half way and win the penalty from it. the clock goes into red so Irish go for the posts from over 50 meters.

Eventually Laidlaw kicks a good penalty to give Gloucester the lead with 5 minutes to go until half time.