{"id":570720,"date":"2025-11-14T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:14:12","slug":"prem-rugby-cup-round-up-wins-for-gloucester-and-sale-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/570720\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby Cup round-up: Wins for Gloucester and Sale Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gloucester claimed a hard-fought <\/b>19-17<\/b><\/a> victory against West Country rivals Bath in the Prem Rugby Cup amid terrible conditions at Kingsholm.<\/b><\/p>\n

While battling the elements, the Cherry and Whites ran in three first-half tries through Josh Hathaway, Kealan Freeman-Price and Will Knight to remain top of Pool A.<\/p>\n

In arguably worse conditions in Greater Manchester, Sale Sharks swept aside Exeter Chiefs to claim their second win of this season’s competition.<\/p>\n

Sam Dugdale – who signed a new deal earlier in the day to stay at the club until 2028<\/a> – scored two tries as Sale fought off vicious gales brought on by Storm Claudia to clinch a 34-3<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n

The results mean Gloucester move to 15 points while Sale leapfrog Bath into second in Pool A with their bonus-point win.<\/p>\n

Bath opened the scoring after just two minutes when Sam Winters ran a good line before unselfishly setting up full-back Austin Emens to dive over.<\/p>\n

After Gloucester prop Nepo Laulala was sent to the sin-bin for a high shot, the hosts levelled while down to 14 men when Hathaway scored in the right corner.<\/p>\n

A strong leg drive from Ethan Staddon from close range put Bath back in front before tries from Gloucester hooker Freeman-Price and 18-year-old centre Knight saw the Cherry and Whites go seven points clear at the break.<\/p>\n

In the second period, a loose ball ended with Will Butt setting up Tyler Offiah who closed the gap to two points with a good finish in the corner.<\/p>\n

Fly-half James Linegar had the opportunity to kick Bath ahead but he hooked a penalty to the left from inside the opposition half with just over five minutes remaining as the home side held on for a narrow derby victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester claimed a hard-fought 19-17 victory against West Country rivals Bath in the Prem Rugby Cup amid terrible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-570720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115550359717872157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}