On The Up -sort of
By Cheery Cherry
November 4 2013
Let's look on the bright side - we have moved up a league place and are now third bottom thanks to Irish losing and our bonus point from the "let's snatch defeat from the jaws of victory " performance against Wasps ...
But it was another defeat at the former fortress of Kingsholm and Nigel Davies appears to be quietly tearing his hair out.
He's on record as putting the 32-30 defeat down to a moment of madness as Wasps capitalised on a dropped restart ball to effectively clinch the game. He probably has stronger words for the gift of two soft tries to Wasps in the opening quarter.
Christian Wade got the first and Nathan Hughes the second after we lost the ball on our put in inside the 22.
Wade went on to have an outstanding game, and if Stuart Lancaster hadn't released him from the England squad we would probably have won. His second try was a scorcher.
We did fight back and went into a deserved 23-20 lead with a score from Shaun Knight who pounced on a loose ball. Sione Kalamafoni strolled over from a lineout at the start of the second half immediately after the half-time break.
Cook put us in the lead on 71 monmutes but from the retstart came that disastrous dropped ball from the normally dependable Jimmy Cowan.
Cook did get a last ditch try to win us the bonus point but it could, and should have been five.
Gloucs: Tries: Knight, Kalamafoni, Cook 2.
Cons: Burns 2. Pens: Burns 2.
Wasps: Tries: Wade 2, Hughes, Thompson.
Cons: Goode 3. Pens: Goode 2.
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That try from the restart was the killer but you have to make allowances for the weather. Ball was like a bar of soap