George Skivington has vowed Gloucester will progress “very hard at the Premiership next season” as a terrible home marketing campaign nears its conclusion.
Regardless of successful simply 4 of 17 league video games this time period, Gloucester may nonetheless finish it with two trophies.
The Premiership Rugby Cup has already been tied and they are going to face South African challengers the Sharks on this season’s EPCR Problem Cup ultimate at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Might 24.
Must Gloucester beat the Sharks, they are going to store qualification for the 2024-25 Investec Champions Cup.
A call was once made to focus on cup competitions next a membership file 9 successive Premiership losses between past due October and early January left Gloucester without a life like hope of difficult for the play-offs.
However Skivington’s staff face their ultimate league fit towards Newcastle on Saturday following a 90-0 annihilation by means of title-chasing Northampton, when Saints scored 14 tries.
It was once the heaviest Premiership defeat in Gloucester’s historical past and rugby director Skivington stated: “I can’t make any excuses around the scoreline or the performance and nor will I.
“It is an embarrassing scoreline and I can’t defend it. I don’t think anyone here is pointing fingers – we have all got accountability for what happened.
“We have chosen what we are focusing on, but it doesn’t make that loss any easier.
“That scoreline is very painful, and there is a good bit of digging to do through the off-season around how we manage the squad next season and up-skill some players.
“This is probably one of those that I will put into the back pocket and have a really good look at in the off-season rather than putting any energy into it now, because we have got to move forward quickly.
I don’t try and pretend our Premiership season has been okay. It hasn’t been
George Skivington
“I don’t think the result adds pressure to us. I don’t think it changes our focus and what we have set out to do.
“When we made the decision to go after two cups, at that point we could probably climb a place or two in the Premiership, which might excite some people that we could finish mid-table or whatever, but we knew we weren’t getting anywhere near the play-offs.
“Some will disagree, but I would think supporters would be more excited about going to finals than climbing up a couple of places in the Premiership.
“I don’t try and pretend our Premiership season has been okay. It hasn’t been.
“I had much better ambitions than that for the Premiership, but once it got away from us it got away from us. Next season, we will be going very hard at the Premiership.
“I understand why people are upset. This year in the Premiership we have fallen short too many times.
“I need to work out how we are more competitive in the Premiership next season, which I am very confident we will be.”
3 days on from Gloucester wilting horribly at Franklin’s Disciplines as Skivington made 12 adjustments to his launch line-up, he had additional celebrate for Northampton.
“I’ve watched that game back four times and to be fair to Saints they were absolutely ruthless,” he added.
“I don’t think I have ever seen a team keep the pedal to the floor like that for 80 minutes in any context.
“They were on it from minute one and they never let us off, they never let us breathe and we struggled with that massively.”
