Preview: Gloucester vs Newcastle Red Bulls - prediction, team news, lineups

Gloucester invited Newcastle Red Bulls to Kingsholm Stadium this Saturday day for the last gameweek of this year's regular Premiership Rugby season.

The Cherry and Whites suffered precocious decision against Northampton Saints successful their erstwhile fixture, portion the Red Bulls came from down to bushed Sale Sharks astatine Kingston Park.

Match preview

After losing 9 of their archetypal 10 league matches this season, Gloucester were near dwindling towards the bottommost of the Premiership array and highly improbable to beryllium playing for thing travel June.

However, pursuing immoderate affirmative results implicit the erstwhile fewer gameweeks, the Cherry and Whites person pulled distant from the ft of the array and fixed themselves a immense accidental of competing amongst Europe’s champion sides adjacent season.

Picking up awesome wins astatine location to some Sale Sharks and the Exeter Chiefs successful caller weeks, George Skivington’s men presently inhabit eighth spot successful the table, which would gain them a spot successful adjacent season’s European Champions Cup.

However, with Harlequins trailing them by lone a constituent and having a superior points difference, Gloucester cognize that lone a bonus constituent triumph volition corroborate that spot travel the extremity of play connected Saturday.

The location broadside volition beryllium softly assured that they tin execute this though, having claimed maximum points successful 5 of their erstwhile 7 matches against Newcastle Red Bulls astatine Kingsholm. 

After different twelvemonth of rebuilding their squad, Newcastle volition beryllium hoping that they tin find immoderate positives to physique connected and beryllium warring for positions successful adjacent season’s league campaign.

Winning conscionable 2 of their 17 Premiership matches this season, Stephen Jones’s men beryllium firmly astatine the ft of the table, tallying lone 12 points and trailing ninth-place Harlequins by 14.

As Newcastle’s 4th consecutive twelvemonth rooted to the bottommost draws to a close, truthful does Jones’s clip astatine the club, with the Welshman making mode for Dan McFarland astatine the extremity of the season.

After clawing backmost a 25-point shortage successful the 2nd fractional to bushed Sale Sharks 45-42 connected Saturday evening, the Red Bulls volition beryllium optimistic that they tin springiness the 48-year-old a capable nonstop disconnected and bash the league treble implicit Gloucester this season.

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Team News

Gloucester person made a mates of changes to the battalion that narrowly fell abbreviated past play arsenic Ciaran Knight and Deian Gwynne marque mode for Val Rapava-Ruskin and Matias Alemanno, who makes his 100th quality for the club.

However, Skivington has opted to proceed with the aforesaid backline, with Ollie Thorley and Ben Loader either broadside of Seb Atkinson and Max Llewellyn successful the centre.

The Red Bulls person besides made 2 changes to the scrum with Murray McCallum replacing Richard Palframan connected the front-row and Freddie Lockwood coming successful for Amanaki Mafi astatine fig eight.

Christian Wade besides misses retired connected the wing, dropping to the seat arsenic Elliott Obatoyinbo pairs his member Harrison connected the flanks.

Gloucester starting lineup:

15 Redshaw, 14 Loader, 13 Llewellyn, 12 S.Atkinson, 11 Thorley, 10 C.Atkinson, 9 Englefield; 1 Rapava-Ruskin, 2 Blake, 3 Fasogbon, 4 Clark, 5 Alemanno, 6 Thomas, 7 Venter, 8 Trenholm

Replacements:

16 Innard, 17 Bleuler, 18 C.Knight, 19 Gwynne, 20 Clement, 21 Austin, 22 W.Knight. 23 Edwards-Giraud

Newcastle Red Bulls starting lineup:

15 Grayson, 14 H.Obatoyinbo, 13 Hearle, 12 Arnold, 11 E.Obatoyinbo, 10 Connon, 9 Benitez Cruz; 1 Hancock, 2 McGuigan, 3 McCallum, 4 Hodgson, 5 Scott, 6 Leatherbarrow, 7 Christie, 8 Lockwood

Replacements:

16 Fletcher, 17 Clark, 18 Palframan, 19 Cardall, 20 Parsons, 21 Elliott, 22 Healy, 23 Wade

We say: Gloucester 45-22 Newcastle Red Bulls

After their pulsating triumph past weekend, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot whether it volition beryllium the Red Bulls broadside that faced Sale turning up this Saturday, oregon the 1 that mislaid by 57 points to Bath conscionable a fortnight prior.

We deliberation that the visitors volition acquisition immoderate joyousness implicit the people of the afternoon, but volition yet autumn abbreviated arsenic Gloucester unafraid a bonus constituent triumph and suffice for adjacent season's Champions Cup.

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