Guinness Premiership: 21st April 2009

Another Fun Night At Castle Grim

That’s it for another season and we’re spared the humiliation of failing in the play-offs by not even managing to get there.  If you were a neutral then the match was an entertaining one, full of the intensity and passion that makes the Guinness Premiership the great competition that it is.  If, however, you’re a Glaws fan then it was just another 80 minutes of frustration and disappointment.

Cir Mhor Finds Things Haven't Improved Since The Weekend...

EDF Cup Final: 18th April 2009

The Final Straw?

For me this was almost the final straw.  I can forgive most things as long as I see passion and commitment from the players, but today I saw something that reminded me of the latter days of Nigel Melville, and it can’t be tolerated for any longer.  Unless that bunch of players get a remarkable result against Wuss and then Wasps, a fair number of them must go, and Dean Ryan must go with them.

Cir Mhor says enough's enough...

Guninness Premiership : Sun 4th April
Northampton Staints 40 - Gloucester 22
Away Day Blues Continue
I don’t know what to make of this game.  There have been times this season when I felt that we should have won but didn’t, but I can’t, in all honesty, say that about today.  We could have won it but did we deserve to – I’m not sure? 

Cir Mhor Reports...

EdF Semi Final : Sun 28th March
Gloucester 17 - Ospreys 0
Fantastic Defence Sets Up Victory
After all of the usual doom and gloom that followed the defeat at Wuss, this was a remarkable performance.  It was the same old story that we’ve seen so often in rugby: a team will nearly always beat a collection of individuals, no matter how talented they are, and there lies the problem for DR’s many critics. 

Cir Mhor reports from his sofa...

Guinness Premiership : Sun 22nd March
Worcester 14 - Gloucester 10
Desperate...

This was desperate stuff against a poor Worcester team, and players and coaches alike should hang their heads in shame – I can’t see any obvious excuses for the lack of performance.

Let’s start with the team selections: Dean Ryan stuck two fingers up to Haze by preferring Qera to him – our DoR needs to start recognising the value of a specialist 7 or it might just end up costing him his job.  As a decision, it was dim, dim, dim.  It’s hard to put into words just how bad the back row of Satala, Qera and Narraway was – their primary function seemed to be to get in the way of our attacks.

Cir Mhor's Report

I reckon watching Glaws in the past two games has been at least as tough as a walk in the Sahara, and I bet the weather was better there too! 

Cir Mhor ponders...

Guinness Premiership : Sun 28th February
Gloucester 36 - Bath 27
Bath Out Bath'd At Kingsholm
For me this was a genuine ‘must win’ game for Glaws.  B***, who Stuart Barnes keeps telling us are the best team in England, Europe, and probably the known universe, had two games in hand, and had we lost, then a top two spot looked to be a challenge. 

In the end we won, and we won well, outscoring them in tries, and sending them home with nothing – that’s three wins on the bounce against them and you have to wonder when the pundits might just come to the conclusion that we’re the better side.

Cir Mhor's words of wisdom...

Guinness Premiership : Sun 21st February
Five Minutes Too Far For Glos

In the greater scheme of things, a losing BP at the Stoop isn’t that bad, but I’d hoped for more and can’t get away from the feeling that with a bit of luck we’d have got it. The most positive thing to come out of the past three weeks is that the pack finally seems to have sorted itself out. 

Cir Mhor is our man at The Stoop

February 14, 2009
Glos Come Back - Again...

I never thought I’d see the day when Carlos Spencer ran out in a Gloucester shirt at Kingsholm, but it happened and the early signs are good.  Of course, all of the other stuff – the All Black caps, the Super 14, and the stint at Northampton – was just a preparation for the most important rugby of his career, and as we all know, that’s in Cherry and White!

Cir Mhor's thought...

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