It was a rather ranty pod recording for this one. I hadn't quite realised just how much that game angered me!

I got a bit ranty in this one...

Jesus Christ

My Barf supporting nephew, getting himself ready to text me....

Having predicted us to beat Saint's comfortable Cherry Jam: A Gloucester Rugby Supporter Podcast's host with the least Ed Price thinks it'll be close against Bath till the 55th Minute and then they'll pull away a little.... We all know what happens when he makes a prediction.

Russ' Brain: "that was an horrific week, we are utterly exhausted, but it's time to relax. What we doing?" Russ: "it's West Country Derby time" Russ' Brain:

Simple but effective game plan from Bath. Pin us into the corner and see if we can cope with the continuous pressure. Luckily we have previous at being strong in these situations...

I honestly don't know what I was expecting. But I hoped we'd at least fire some shots, but we look like a 3rds team that's been put out against a 1st XV. I just feel numb about it.

Individual bit of brilliance from Joseph aside, our back line is very disjointed. It's far from cohesive and boy does someone need to step up and take control.

Our line out is an absolute joke. If only we had someone in the coaching staff, who might know a thing or two about how to put it right....

Oh Gloucester don't do this, don't give me hope... Weird how we get the ball in the hand of the players with skill and pace, with space to exploit, we look good...

If we are going to have any chance of doing something (coming 9th, I'm not insane) we have to sort out some kind of line out and find someone who can coach our defence to some sort of competent level, it's laughable.

"Gloucester showing resilience and grit at the end." Might have been good if we'd have shown that when we had a chance of getting something out of the game.

Budget does not cause us to miss tackles, not resource a tackle and make monumental brain farts after getting yourself back into a game Bad coaching, game plans and mindset does. No idea where a win comes from.

So what you don't do against Exeter is give away daft pens so they can pin you in the corner....

Our defence.

Ending the first block of the Premiership rugby winless, that Skivs isn't going anywhere and at some point a text is coming asking for my availability for the next Cherry Jam: A Gloucester Rugby Supporter Podcast pod...

A privilege to take the boy to his first game today, those who know, know what this means to me. Even better to have a good mate on Ed Price there... The Gloucester Hartpury girls are some team.

Yeah I wonder fucking why the BBC? Absolute mystery isn’t it?