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LV Cup - 30 January, 2010
Gloucester 17 - Worcester 5
Woeful Wuss Sent Packing
If I was Cecil Duckworth – I wish I had his money – I’d surely be wondering about how effective Mike Ruddock and his coaching team are. This Wuss side was the worst team I’ve seen at CG for a long, long time, and quite how a bunch of talented players can produce such dross has to be one of life’s mysteries.
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Heineken Cup: 16 January, 2010
Gloucester 23 - Biarritz 8
Much Better!
Can I take you back to 06 September of last year, Gloucester’s first game of the season, when a crowd of nearly 13,000 – that’s almost 3,000 more than we had for this game – saw us dispose of Bath in fine style. We were on a high and the mood was pure optimism. And then we found out that it wasn’t us that was good as much as Bath being desperately poor, as the following results proved. My only nagging doubt after what seemed to be an excellent Glaws performance is how good were Biarritz?
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Guinness Premiership - 2 January, 2010
Gloucester 13 - Worcester 13
Late Late Attwood Strike Saves Blushes
It’s amazing how different people see games in very different ways. I’m sure that there will be those who take the result at face value: a draw at home against genuine relegation candidates, so sack everyone involved with Gloucester Rugby. However, my view – and it’s just one man’s opinion – is at odds with the serially pessimistic view that tends to prevail nowadays on Shedweb.
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Heineken Cup- 20 December, 2009
Gloucester 19 - Glasgow 6
A Game of Two Halves (no, it really was...)
It’s getting harder and harder to weigh up this Gloucester side. In the first half it was a truly dreadful, lacklustre, and at times seemingly uninterested performance, but then they followed it with a second half that gave us hope that they can still be a good team. Baffled? I know that I am.
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Heineken Cup- 11 December, 2009
Glasgow 33 - Gloucester 11
Well beaten by Glasgow
As we watched the fog swirl in across the pitch from our room behind the posts, high above Firhill, we wondered whether we would get to see any rugby six hours later. We also wondered why we’d bothered to buy tickets for the match, as the view from our eyrie was far better than the view from within the ground.
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Guinness Premiership - Saturday 5th December, 2009
Gloucester 25 - Newcastle Falcons 13
Glaws Triumph in 'Huge' game
This was genuinely a huge game for Glaws: if we’d lost then who knows where our season would have gone, but a win meant that everything is still possible. In the end we did it well against a Newcastle side that isn’t the collection of prima donnas of previous years.
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Guinness Premiership - Saturday 28th November, 2009
Harlequins 35 Gloucester 29
SO NEAR, YET SO FAR (again)…
So near and yet so far: this was a game where the ‘glass half full’ and the ‘glass half empty’ merchants both had something to take home with them. If you’re in the former camp than you’ll have seen what you believe to be more green shoots of recovery from Glaws, but if you’re of a more negative mindset you can latch on to yet more missed tackles that cost us a game we could (and should?) have won.
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Guinness Premiership - 20 November, 2009
Gloucester 12 - Leicester 9
Gloucester Rediscover 'The Dog'
Let’s start with the obvious – this was as poor a Leicester performance as I’ve ever seen. However, they didn’t come into the game on a six match losing run, and despite the traditional Tigers complaint, it was Glaws who were more weakened by call-ups, injuries and suspension. So, despite the caveat, this could just be the game that turned our season round. Confidence is a huge thing in rugby, and if Tuqiri had snatched the most unjust of victories, Glaws might have gone into freefall – this was as important a win as you could imagine.
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Anglo Welsh Cup - 15 November, 2009
Wasps 21 - Gloucester 14
Same old Glaws: lots of spirit but undone by errors
We now know that Freddie Burns isn’t the new Messiah…yet. Until he went off injured he was the focal point of this game, scoring both of Glaws’ tries – the second you can rate as brilliant or the softest thing you’ll ever see, you decide – and then gifting Wasps the one that got them back into the game. He’s a rough diamond – some of his kicking from hand was seriously dodgy – but there was also a lot of the Ryan Lamb about him, although he’s bigger and tackles much, much better. It would not surprise me in the slightest if he was our starting 10 by the end of the season.
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Anglo Welsh Cup - 10 November, 2009
Gloucester 25 - Cardiff 26
Another loss and more injuries
There was a period in the first half when I briefly thought that we had turned the corner: the Cardiff scrum was creaking badly, and we’d scored two tries, and I even harboured thoughts of a bonus point win. However, it then all fell apart through a succession of the same old errors; missed tackles, poor passes and amateurish handling. It also featured more than a smattering of sheer stupidity, the sort than you’d never hope to see from a professional outfit.
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International Friendly - Tuesday 3 November, 2009
Gloucester 5 - Australia 36
Great Evening - Not So Great Result
What a cracking night! A touring team play the Cherry and Whites under floodlights and in front of a sell-out crowd – well done to the management of Glaws for making this happen! In a rugby sense we didn’t learn too much with the jet-lagged Aussies not really having to move much out of third gear against a young Glaws side – our team was pretty well what our ‘A’ side would look like if Brush didn’t have injuries with which to contend. That said, they gave it a proper go and all concerned come out of it with huge credit.
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Interview Special... 2 November, 2009
When CM met Brush
Some people will have already seen the Rugby Paper interview that CM did with Bryan Redpath last week, here is the bits they didn't use - and well worth a read it is too.
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