{"id":493646,"date":"2026-02-21T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:42:13","slug":"prem-rugby-cup-big-wins-for-gloucester-and-northampton-saints-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493646\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby Cup: Big wins for Gloucester and Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Redshaw scored Gloucester&#8217;s opener when a quick pass gave him space to sprint over the line from 30 metres out and apply a diving one-handed finish in the corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale then lost Nathan Jibulu for 10 minutes when the hooker was yellow carded for a tip tackle on Ollie Thorley and the Cherry and Whites took advantage when Seb Blake went under the posts after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester took a firm grip of the game as half-time approached when Caolan Englefield fed Charlie Atkinson and the fly-half converted his own try to make it 19-0 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Atkinson was sin-binned early in the second period for making head contact in a tackle on Jibulu and Sale scored their first try soon after through a nicely worked move that saw Rob du Preez send Alex Wills into the corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Gloucester hit back immediately when lock Eite charged down a box kick from Sale scrum-half Gus Warr, who had only just joined the action as a replacement, to give George Skivington&#8217;s men a bonus point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts were breaking tackles and making metres at will and Matias Alemanno&#8217;s offload allowed Trenholm to grab a fifth before another error, this time from Sharks winger Arron Reed, gave Redshaw an easy second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lovely kick and gather from Gloucester&#8217;s Wales international wing Josh Hathaway rounded off a fine night at Kingsholm, with Sale scoring consolations via a second for Wills and one for Ethan Caine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Redshaw scored Gloucester&#8217;s opener when a quick pass gave him space to sprint over the line from 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-493646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493646","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=493646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}