Gloucester Rugby

Gloucester on Friday have confirmed the appointment of Scotland skipper Greig Laidlaw as the captain for the upcoming season.

With the summer international tours now over, focus has already begun to swing back on the looming 2016/17 Aviva Premiership season.

Former Gloucester fly-half Tim Taylor has been appointed as the new backs coach of the English Premiership club replacing former England scrum-half Nick Walshe ahead of the upcoming Aviva Premiership season.

Gloucester’s Matt Kvesic admits he is determined to keep on performing to the best of his ability despite the disappointment of being left out Eddie Jones’ England squad that will tour Australia.

Gloucester star Matt Kvesic believes that the NatWest Schools Cup is a great initiative for the development of young players.

England are still basking in the warm glow of their second Rugby World Cup win, Eddie Jones is set to receive his knighthood and a team from the Premiership has just wrapped up the division’s fifth-straight European Rugby Champions Cup title.

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Northampton secured a European Champions Cup spot for the next season after beating Gloucester 28-20 at Kingsholm.

England captain Dylan Hartley is set to make a comeback for the Northampton Saints in their final game of the Aviva Premiership season against Gloucester at Kingsholm on Saturday.

Stand-in fly-half Greig Laidlaw kicked Gloucester to their first Aviva Premiership triumph at Sale since 2001 following a narrow 12-11 victory at the AJ Bell Stadium.

Gloucester ended a run of four successive Aviva Premiership defeats with victory over their west country rivals Exeter.

Gloucester's up-and-down season continued as Newport Gwent Dragons pulled off a shock 23-21 victory at Kingsholm in the quarter-final of the European Challenge Cup.

Gloucester will aim to put a run of defeats in domestic competition behind them when they resume European Challenge Cup business on Saturday.

Bath's England heroes returned to lift the spirits but it was the overlooked Semesa Rokoduguni's two second-half tries that earned the visitors a rare derby victory over Gloucester in front of a full house at Kingsholm.

London Irish kept their hopes of remaining in the Aviva Premiership alive with a 23-18 win over Gloucester, bringing them to within five points of 11th-placed Newcastle Falcons.

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Fifteen points from James Hook kept Gloucester in contention for Aviva Premiership play-off and Champions Cup places with a convincing 32-6 victory over Newcastle at Kingsholm.

Saracens' Schalk Brits has been suspended for three weeks after pleading guilty to punching Gloucester's Nick Wood.

The six best teams in the Aviva Premiership academy league met at Allianz Park on Monday for Finals Day, to decide the teams’ final positions for the 2015/16 season.

Martin St Quinton has completed his full takeover of Gloucester Rugby, buying the Aviva Premiership club outright from Ryan Walkinshaw.