The two clubs are locked in a battle for eighth place and the final Champions Cup spot that comes with it, but Gloucester<\/a> currently sit five points clear of their rivals, who are now looking over over the shoulders at basement club Newcastle.<\/p>\n Chris Boyd, the veteran Kiwi coach who oversaw Northampton\u2019s revival, has joined the club as technical director and Skivington believes a strong finish to the season is possible after the break for the Six Nations<\/a> was used to outline their new goals.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore the recent Prem Rugby Cup spell, a couple of us coaches went over to Toulouse<\/a> to watch them train and spend a bit of time on what we\u2019re going to go after for the rest of the season,\u201d head coach Skivington said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re realistic that there\u2019s only so much we can do in the league, so we want to get as many points as we can and climb as high as we can.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to make sure that in these last eight games we look like what we want to look like, we go after what we want to go after and play some good rugby.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been clear on what we want to go after and against Harlequins, the boys did a good job for the most part. It wasn\u2019t perfect, but the forwards were really, really good in the set-piece.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always taken a lot of pride in set-piece but in the last 18 months with us pushing our attack, we\u2019ve dropped off there and we\u2019ve been average.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the forwards have worked hard very hard on it over the last couple of months and we got a bit of pay out there when we needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n Harlequins<\/a> have not won in the Prem since defeating Newcastle<\/a> on October 25 and their whole season hinges on the Champions Cup with their round of 16 tie against Sale<\/a> in a fortnight the next assignment.<\/p>\n Quins interim head coach Jason Gilmore said: \u201cWe are where we are for a reason. We know where we want to get to.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a plan and structure we feel will get this club to back where it needs to be, but it\u2019s going to take hard work. No-one is liking it but we have to face reality.<\/p>\n \u201cThe three things we want to do is still dream big in Europe. We have Sale in two weeks at home which is massive in terms of the play-offs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can have a massive go to get into the quarters. We want to finish outside the bottom two in the league.<\/p>\n \u201cBut most importantly we want to use this three months to get as good as we can before we hit the pre-season. We don\u2019t want to meander through the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Skivington insisted Gloucester\u2019s refreshed identity began to take shape in their determined 26-19 Gallagher Prem victory at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-555630","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\/555630","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=555630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/105.png.webp.png\")
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