Ford has a 75% success rate in goal kicks, the fifth-best in the Premiership.
But both kickers also missed relatively straightforward kicks at goal inside the opening quarter-of-an-hour.
Contepomi missed two kicks at goal immediately into the second half but converted his third attempt.
They twice spurned kicks at goal, only to be denied from close-range scrums, before finally making the breakthrough.
Stand-off Brough missed five kicks at goal as the Wildcats came up just short at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster.
Bath turned down kicks at goal early on in a bold bid for tries but failed to breach the Sharks defence.
The win came despite fly-half Danny Cipriani having an off day with the boot and missing four kicks at goal from five attempts.
But Hull had enough attacking verve to make the missed kicks at goal academic as they swept to their 14th win in 15 games.
Cipriani stepped up to make it four out of four successful kicks at goal with his third penalty of the afternoon on 45 minutes.
But the fly-half, who missed five kicks at goal in the Basque country, saw his effort fall short as Biarritz surged into the semi-finals for the first time since 2006.
But Blair, who had missed a couple of straightforward kicks at goal, came good from just inside his own half to level the scores - and that is how it stayed.
Their first try came from Martin Ridyard midway through the first half, while Stuart Donlan added a late second prior to Armitstead's closing effort, Mick Nanyn landing two of his three kicks at goal.
Wilkinson missed two kicks at goal, one of them a simple chance in the second half, and Newcastle turned over plenty of possession after a promising start which yielded a fifth-minute penalty for the England fly-half.
It was not a vintage display for the 28-year-old Canterbury fly-half, especially with the boot as he missed four out of his first five kicks at goal, but he and his team had enough in the locker to see off Wales for the 24th time in a row.
Both sides had their first sight of goal courtesy of early free-kicks.
Leicester dominated the first half and should have had more to show for it than Flood's kicks, with Shane Williams dropping a goal in reply.
If it does go to penalty kicks are you going to pull your best goal scorers off the field in extra time?
Camp then saved two more Guthrie free-kicks but could do little when Enrique scored the first goal of his career to secure all three points and edge Newcastle closer to automatic promotion.
Italy appeared to regroup and settle the game down after that goal, even testing Iker Casillas with a couple of dangerous corner kicks, until Jordi Alba put another one in the net for Spain four minutes before halftime.
He had a succession of dangerous free kicks in the second half, but was unable to place a single one on goal.
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Birmingham City moved up to eighth place after winning 3-2 at Wigan Athletic, with Alex McLeish's side coming from a goal down to score three in 11 second-half minutes as Sebastian Larsson scored with two free-kicks and Colombia striker Christian Benitez netted the other.
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