Greig Laidlaw and new-look Gloucester take first strides towards rebuilding fortress Kingsholm

You need to prove yourself at Kingsholm however good you are, so when
Gloucester were trailing Sale 17-3 on Saturday, having conceded three tries,
their raft of new signings were in danger of being booed off from their
opening-day audition.

It was Sale’s Danny Cipriani doing all the impressing,
creating all three tries and later adding one of his own.

His was a stunning
attacking performance.




Gradually, though, Gloucester’s new boys shrugged off their nerves after the
53-6 hiding at Northampton in the opening round and found some cohesion to
emerge 34-27 victors.
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