{"id":333408,"date":"2025-12-07T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333408\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:41:09","slug":"forgotten-england-star-shines-as-gloucester-see-off-castres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333408\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten England star shines as Gloucester see off Castres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/gloucester\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gloucester<\/a> put in a late kick to ease to a 34-14 victory our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/castres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castres<\/a> in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/european-champions-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investec Champions Cup<\/a> opener at Kingsholm.<\/p>\n<p>The match had been level at 14-14 with 20 minutes to go before the home side streaked to the win, thanks largely to two late tries from substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/charlie-atkinson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Atkinson<\/a>, the second of which with almost the final play ensuring they picked up a winning bonus point.<\/p>\n<p>Castres had taken the early initiative and gone in front through a converted try in the ninth minute from Vuate Karawalevu.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Thomas went over for Gloucester\u2019s first score before the visitors regained the lead through Loris Zarantonello\u2019s converted try.<\/p>\n<p>Will Trenholm crossed over to level things once more before fly-half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ross-byrne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Byrne<\/a> kicked two penalties to edge Gloucester into a lead they would not relinquish.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/104.png.webp\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p> 22m Entries <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/204.png.webp\"\/>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/castres-vs-gloucester\/stats\/?g=948435\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>That set things up for Atkinson to seal victory late on and move his side second behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bath<\/a> in Pool 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester put in a late kick to ease to a 34-14 victory our Castres in their Investec Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}