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BBC News
27-04-2025
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Gloucester thrash Exeter in record-breaking win
Gallagher PremiershipGloucester (43) 79Tries: Clement, Blake, Ludlow, Harris, S Atkinson 2, Anscombe, Williams, Ford-Robinson, Wade, Singleton 3 Cons: Carreras 6, Anscombe Exeter (7) 17Tries: Hodge, Rigg, Haydon-Wood Cons: Slade Gloucester scored 13 tries in a club-record-breaking win over Exeter to move up to fifth in the Cherry and Whites totally outclassed their opponents as they ran in seven first-half tries to lead 43-7 at the break, having earned a bonus point inside the 20 minutes. Jamal Ford-Robinson and Christian Wade took the try tally to nine within 10 minutes of the restart as Exeter began to get embarrassed. The hosts went on to score four more tries - replacement Jack Singleton got a hat-trick - as they registered their record Premiership victory, overtaking a 64-0 win over Bath three years defeat was Exeter's heaviest in the top flight, surpassing a 55-12 loss to Sale 14 years marks the second record-loss for Rob Baxter's side this season, after a 69-17 defeat by Bordeaux broke their record in European remain second from bottom of the table. More to follow. Gloucester: Carreras; Wade, Harris, S Atkinson, Morris; Anscombe, Williams; Rapava Ruskin, Blake, Fasogbon, Clark, Thomas, Clement, Ludlow (capt), AckermannReplacements: Singleton, Ford-Robinson, Gotovtsev, Jordan, Clarke, Englefield, C Atkinson, CotgreaveExeter: Hodge; Hammersley, Slade, Hawkins, Brown-Bampoe; Skinner, Armstrong; Sio, Yeandle, Street, Tuima, Jenkins (capt), E Roots, Vintcent, FisilauReplacements: Norey, Blose, Iosefa-Scott, Capstick, Vermeulen, Townsend, Haydon-Wood, RiggYellow card: Haydon-Wood 68Referee: Karl Dickson
BBC News
28-03-2025
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'I love the club & city' - Sprangler's Saints passion driving survival mission
Skipper Sven Sprangler's "love" for St Johnstone is fuelling his drive to keep them in the Austrian midfielder Sprangler has let Saints get under his skin since joining in September 2023."Since day one, I love to be part of the club, I love to be part of the city," Sprangler, 29, said."The training, the lads, the people around the club, everyone, I love them. Now it's like a family here, it's my second family."Everyone I know from the changing room is passionate about it. If we lose, everyone is disappointed, but if we win, it's so much better."Everyone loves to be here. Everyone gives everything for the gaffer, for the club, for the city."Despite Saints sitting five points adrift at the bottom with eight games remaining, Sprangler insists the squad are full of belief as they target victory at Hibs on Saturday."Everyone is positive. Everyone believes, and a lot of that comes from our training staff," he said."The gaffer brings so much energy to us and on every training session we give everything and we put every effort in to improve as players and as a team."We have the quality in our dressing room, and if we are doing the right things I still believe that everything is possible."I know what the lads are capable of, and everyone is still positive in the changing see in every game the support from the fans, it's massive. Now we keep fighting until the end."
BBC News
25-02-2025
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- BBC News
'Next two games could define our season'
Dundee's slide continues. A fourth consecutive league defeat - this time at Ross County - leaves the Dark Blues second bottom of the next two games could define Dundee's season. A trip to Motherwell on Wednesday will determine whether we remain within reach of the mid-table teams or if a daylight gap Dundee were 10 points ahead of St Johnstone in January. By Saturday, we could replace them in bottom Motherwell and St Johnstone being the teams directly above and below Dundee it adds heavier emphasis to the matches for a team that will be feeling the could very well be the biggest week of Tony Docherty's managerial career to date. Failure to pick up points could throw the manager and club into a very alarming the other hand, a turnaround now would be perfect timing given the Scottish Cup quarter-final and Dundee derby at Tannadice on the is a funny game - just now feels very doom and gloom but we could quickly be on cloud nine. It is up to to the players to prove they have the character to match their ambitions and rise up from their current wreckage of this chaos, I find myself reminiscing about how strong the team looked at the start of the season. I stated that if Dundee sold Luke McCowan for anything less than a club record fee, it would be a disaster. I argued that, to compete for Europe and make cup runs, keeping him was essential and his influence outweighed any short-term financial losing a captain in a team short of leaders, a matchwinner in a side lacking a talisman, and the heartbeat of the squad, worth just £1m?Dundee have a history of underselling their best assets. And in every scenario I can think of it never ends with us competing where we want to be.
