This column comes with a warning. The Gallagher Premiership is nowhere near the standard of the Springboks. Sprinting past full backs or leaping to pluck the ball from the sky with the determination of a salmon swimming upstream is no guarantee of Test-match glory. At no stage did they awaken from their nightmare as Gloucester did untold damage to their play-off prospects with a convincing victory on Saturday. SponsoredFifteen minutes into the match a lovely inside pass from Gloucester’s Mark Atkinson opens the Saints defence and the ball is soon in the hands of the freshest British & Irish Lion, Louis Rees-Zammit.

Source: The Times May 09, 2021 23:03 UTC