The rugby begins early at Twickenham with Moseley's victory over Leeds Carnegie in the EDF Energy National Trophy Final Cardiff v Gloucester: The scoring opens with the Blues' Richie Rees creating a beautiful try for Leigh Halfpenny to touch down Halfpenny adds a second try on 20 minutes and Ryan Lamb is lucky not to be sin-binned for taking out Gloucester's jitters on Rees With little possession or guile Gloucester look out of the game but a try from Mark Foster brings the score back to 17-5 Ben Blair's boot is also on fine form, bagging a penalty and two (of three) conversions in the first half It's starting to look like men against boys as Cardiff's Tom James gets the ball down in the corner despite Lamb's best efforts 22-5 down at half-time, Gloucester need to score early in the second half but can not penetrate the Blues' defence The Blues are happy for Gloucester to have some ball and pick off James Simpson-Daniel's momentary turns of speed It all looks too easy as the side from Wales carve through their opposition again for Ben Blair to cap his performance with a try Seconds later and Cardiff are in once more as Gloucester leave a high ball and Ceri Sweeney jaunts in between the posts Good Gloucester pressure yields a penalty try but scores for Blair and Tom Shanklin seal Cardiff's win, clocking 50 points Cardiff at times were little more than a blue blur past Gloucester's eyes and captain Paul Tito lifts the Welsh side's first trophy Despite not scoring Martyn Williams marshals the Twickenham pitch for 80 minutes and deserves his man of the match award
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