London Irish beat Bath to pick up their first points of the season in the round four fixture back in September 2012 in the Round 4 Premiership fixture.

Halani Aulika and Jonathan Joseph crossed for the hosts tries in addition to 19 points from the boot of Steven Shingler to give the Exiles the 29-22 victory.  

The visitors opened the scoring through an Olly Barkley penalty goal, who was playing in his final away game for Bath before his move to Racing Metro.

The departing fly-half exchanged penalties with Shingler in an even opening first quarter before the Irish centre landed his third to make it 9-6.

Bath regained the lead when Kyle Eastmond dived over following a great break and inside pass from full back Nick Abendanon. Barkley converted to give the visitors a four-point advantage.

Irish launched an attack just before half-time and, from a line-out, the pack drove Tongan prop Halani Aulika over before Shingler added the extras.

Bath pulled back the deficit to three points after the re-start as Barkley landed his third penalty, before Marland Yarde charged through into the midfield and provided a great pass to Jonathan Joseph to cruise over against his future club. Shingler's conversion stretched the Irish lead to 10 points.

Barkley continued his fine form with the boot and added two more kicks. Before a moment of ill-discipline after 71 minutes proved decisive as Shingler booted his last penalty to finish the contest.

Scorers: London Irish: Tries: Aulika, Joseph; Conversions: Shingler (2); Penalties: Shingler (5); Bath: Tries: Eastmond; Conversions: Barkley; Penalties: Barkley (5)

London Irish:

15 Tom Homer, 14 Topsy Ojo, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Steven Shingler, 11 Marland Yarde, 10 Ian Humphreys, 9 Tomas O'Leary, 1 Max Lahiff, 2 Scott Lawson, 3 Halani Aulika, 4 Bryn Evans, 5 Matt Garvey, 6 Declan Danaher (c), 7 Jamie Gibson, 8 Ofisa Treviranus

Replacements: 16 David Paice, 17 Jerry Yanuyanutawa, 18 Alan Cotter, 19 George Skivington, 20 Jon Fisher, 21 Anthony Watson, 22 Shane Geraghty, 23 Jack Moates

Bath:

15 Nick Abendanon, 14 Kyle Eastmond, 13 Dan Hipkiss, 12 Olly Barkley, 11 Tom Biggs, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Michael Claassens, 1 Nathan Catt, 2 Lee Mears, 3 Anthony Perenise, 4 Stuart Hooper, 5 Dom Day, 6 Carl Fearns, 7 Ben Skirving, 8 Taylor

Attendance: 7,324

Referee: JP Doyle

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