Fly half Freddie Burns is the latest member of the Gloucester Rugby squad to agree a new contract with the club, signing a new contract that will keep him at Kingsholm until the end of the 2013-4 season. The 21 year old joined the Gloucester Rugby Academy from local rivals Bath and made his...
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Gloucester Rugby have moved swiftly to strengthen their back division following last week’s departure of Lesley Vainikolo to La Rochelle with the signing of Ollie Phillips. Phillips, who can play wing or full back, has previously played his club rugby for the Newcastle Falcons and Stade Francais. However, he is also well known for...
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Gloucester Rugby have confirmed that Fijian international flanker Akapusi Qera has agreed a new two year contract with the club. Suva born Qera is currently in his fifth season at Kingsholm and the confirmation that he has agreed to extend his stay with Gloucester is a welcome boost in a week which concludes with...
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Gloucester Rugby Head Coach Bryan Redpath makes five changes from the side that won in Galway last Saturday as his team welcome Connacht to Kingsholm on Saturday (kick off 3:40pm) for the return fixture. Last weekend saw a hard fought fixture between the two sides and Gloucester edged it by 14 points to 10....
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Gloucester Rugby have confirmed that second row Will James has signed a one year extension to his current contract keeping him at Kingsholm until the end of the 2012-3 season. The former Welsh international is currently in his sixth season with the club and has made over 100 first team appearances. He has been...
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Gloucester Rugby have confirmed that number eight Luke Narraway will be the club’s captain for the forthcoming season. Narraway, of course, was skipper for large parts of last season when Mike Tindall was absent on international duty and lifted the LV= Cup trophy when Gloucester were triumphant in the final at Franklin’s Gardens. So,...
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Scrum half Nick Runciman, a summer signing from London Welsh, will get his first Gloucester Rugby against his former club with London Welsh the first preseason opponents for Bryan Redpath’s side. Also starting the game will be prop Dan Murphy who also joined Gloucester in the summer, in this case from London Irish. It’s...
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Gloucester Rugby can today confirm that they have signed Western Force hooker Nathan Charles on a short term deal. 22 year old Charles, who has recently finished the Super Rugby season with the Western Force, moves to Kingsholm on a short team deal as Argentinian international Matias Cortese has had surgery on a minor...
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Gloucester Rugby are combining their annual open day with a Sevens tournament which will be held at Kingsholm on Friday, 12th August from 4pm. The free event that welcomes everyone will kick off at 5pm with a Gloucester Rugby open training session featuring the entire available squad. This will give supporters the opportunity to...
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Gloucester Rugby this morning named their squad for the second leg of the JP Morgan Asset Management Premiership Rugby Sevens which takes place at Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton on Friday evening. With the first team squad flying out to Portugal for a preseason training camp in Portugal next week, it’s an opportunity to see some...
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