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Saracens\u2019 win moves them three points off the final play-off spot as they look to give McCall a fitting send-offMatthew Lewis\/Getty Images<\/p>\nShow Details<\/p>\n
It might go down as Noah Caluori\u2019s most frustrating day in a Saracens shirt. Yet such is the momentum behind their late-season surge, it could not prevent Mark McCall\u2019s side from leapfrogging Bristol into fifth and moving to within three points of the play-offs.<\/p>\n
Saracens won their fourth match in a row and have in effect turned the final-day clash with fourth-placed Exeter Chiefs, who suffered a surprising defeat by Harlequins on Saturday, into a quarter-final.<\/p>\n
Caluori, the leading tryscorer in the Gallagher Prem, however, had a day to forget. He knocked on with the tryline at his mercy and failed to dominate the skies, as has been his way in this breakout season. Yet individual discontent brought collective joy as Saracens instead made a matchwinner out of their other wing, Rotimi Segun.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt times he is undefendable, this has been his best season at the club by miles,\u201d McCall, Saracens\u2019 director of rugby, said of Segun. \u201cPeople don\u2019t see how brilliant a defender he is and, with the ball, he\u2019s as good as anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has not played for England but this is the year he might get into the conversation. He\u2019s playing as well as anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saracens had the game won inside the first quarter by turning left instead of right. In the previous ten league games involving Caluori the Londoners had habitually fed the teen in the No4 shirt and been rewarded with 18 tries. Not unreasonably Gloucester anticipated more of the same. So they were as surprised as anyone that Caluori was left standing in splendid isolation on one touchline while the home side went the other way to great effect.<\/p>\n
Saracens\u2019 win moves them three points off the final play-off spot as they look to give McCall a fitting send-offMatthew Lewis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Segun, 29, had scored eight tries himself in those ten games but Gloucester were slow to identify the threat when they overthrew a lineout in the seventh minute. Tom Willis tidied up and Fergus Burke straightened.<\/p>\n
Out wide Caluori waved his hands and, as the visitors twitched, Burke slipped the ball to Max Malins on his left shoulder. The full back accelerated before linking with Segun, who did the rest.<\/p>\n
Another lineout followed soon after and again Segun made hay. This time Maro Itoje secured possession and Ben Earl attacked off the base going right. Gloucester kept their spacing for fear of Caluori going round the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earl identified the scenario and found Segun, straightening impressively before ripping up the guts. A tap tackle slowed his progress but the Londoner, who signed a new deal in January, was too athletic to be denied.<\/p>\n
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Earl scored Saracens\u2019 final try in their confident win over GloucesterMatthew Lewis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
There were 13 minutes on the clock and 15 points on the scoreboard. By the standards of this crazy Prem campaign it appeared a far from terminal situation for the visitors. Yet it felt that way in the ground and looked that way from Gloucester\u2019s body language.<\/p>\n
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It was a frustrating afternoon for the league\u2019s top tryscorer, CaluoriMatthew Lewis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n