A Santi Carreras-inspired Gloucester earn a narrow victory over Northampton Saints at Franklin's Gardens in the Gallagher Premiership.
A Santi Carreras-inspired Gloucester saw off reigning Gallagher Premiership champions Northampton Saints at Franklin's Gardens.
That was as good as it got for the hosts in the first-half, however, and after Saints winger George Hendy had already made two excellent try-saving tackles, Wales international Freddie Thomas intercepted a slack pass from Saints’ scrum-half Tom James to run clear and intelligently find Mercer to slide in as the visitors regained their lead.
Eight minutes into the second-half, Saints scrum-half Alex Mitchell returned to the field following a long-term neck injury and with the applause still ringing around the Gardens, South African Augustus charged over to reduce the arrears to eight points. Soon after, Gloucester replacement hooker Seb Blake was sent to the sin-bin leading to his side facing a wave of attacks but some excellent defending meant they did not give up a point while down to 14 men.
"A lot of errors, we got past three phases once. Most of the time we were defending on our own 22, discipline was poor and we couldn’t get anything going and credit to Gloucester who got on top of us and rolled us over.
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