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Christian Wade’s arrival at Gloucester Rugby is the club’s second marquee signing this week, signalling its intent to compete at the highest level. Gloucester Rugby directory of rugby George Skivington was elated with his latest capture after adding talented fly-half Gareth Anscombe earlier in the week: “He [Wade] is a proper X-factor player. I think […]
Gloucester Rugby opened their Gallagher Premiership campaign with a narrow victory, 29-28, over Harlequins at Kingsholm on Saturday. Head coach George Skivington was “most of all really proud of the lads and how they managed the game.” Double centurion and captain Lewis Ludlow led his side to success and was at the heart of everything […]
A slow start for Gloucester Rugby meant they trailed at the break, but three unanswered tries in the second half were more than enough to claim a 35-14 victory on a historic day. On the clubs 150th anniversary, encouraging performances from Adam Hastings and Ollie Thorley, in particular, inspired the second-half comeback, which saw Gloucester […]
Gloucester this week confirmed that Italian International back-rower will leave the club at the end of the season to take up a contract with Italian side Zebre, leaving a big whole in the side’s back-row. With veteran Ben Morgan set to retire, and rumours circulating around the future of Jordy Reid, we take a look […]
Gloucester Rugby were defeated 26-5 by Leicester Tigers on Sunday at Kingsholm in a contest that has severely hampered their chances of making the play-offs. It was an important game for both teams, with just five rounds to go before the end of the season, the battle for the Champions Cup places is heating up. […]
Leicester produced a superb 2nd half performance at Kingsholm to hand Gloucester another home defeat this season. 29 points scored after half time was enough to brush past a lack lustre Gloucester outfit. However, on the day that the home side would have been looking to further strengthen their playoff hopes , there was a […]
Louis Rees-Zammit returned from a two-month injury absence to inspire Gloucester to a crucial 28-26 win over play-off rivals Harlequins at Kingsholm on Friday night. In a thrilling contest that saw both sides score try-bonus points, Gloucester overtook the London-based side in the league table to propel them back in the play-off places. Tries from […]
Welcome to Park Life Sport’s official live blog for today. Stay up to date with all the current goings on in the sporting world. Today we’ll have all the reaction to England women and their victory over Italy in the Arnold Clark Cup. We’ll also analyse Cheltenham Town and Forest Green’s results over the weekend […]
Chris Harris helped get Scotland over the line in the Calcutta Cup, as every away nation recorded victories on the opening weekend for the first time in Six Nations history. Harris came on as a replacement for Huw Jones in the 76th minute at Twickenham, a couple of minutes after Duhan van der Merwe had […]
Having earnt his first England call up, Gloucester Rugby’s George Mcguigan has now been ruled out of the England squad due to a knee injury and is replaced by Bath’s Tom Dunn. The hooker, who joined the Cherry and Whites from Newcastle Falcons in December, played 76 minutes on Saturday as Gloucester secured their place […]