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Article: Gloucester get back on course
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 23, 2005
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Gloucester 21
Bristo l0
PRETTY EASY for Gloucester in the end and not a moment too soon
for their season either. Last week, by all accounts, they were
shocking against Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup. "One of the most
disappointing results of my coaching career," confessed Nigel
Melville, their director of rugby, afterwards. Two weeks earlier they
were thumped at home in the premiership by Leicester. So in that
context this win against former local rivals Bristol in the Powergen
Cup was welcome. (Typical of English rugby, by the way, that they can
run three different competitions simultaneously over a four-week
period.)
But Gloucester's achievement must be judged against the calibre of ...