Agony for Hastings as Saints hold on

By PAUL REES

Gloucester ....................... 29pts
Tries: Clarke 27, Harris 40, Alemanno 47, Carreras 52
Conversions: Hastings, 28, 40, 53
Penalties: Hastings 59

Northampton Saints......31pts
Tries: Mitchell 4, Langdon 7, 38; Coles 7, Litchfield 64
Conversions: Smith 5, 39, 65
ADAM Hastings had the chance to end Gloucester’s losing league run with a long range penalty with the final kick of a match that had at one point looked beyond them but, despite the crowd trying to will it over, the ball held up in the breeze and dropped agonisingly short.
If it seemed to sum...

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