ON paper, Gloucester looked set for a comfortable victory and that proved to be the case as an under-strength Sale pack struggled all afternoon.
■By ROGER PANTING

In truth, Gloucester should have won by a wider margin but lacked accuracy at crucial times and were not helped by the leniency of the referee towards Sale in the scrum, who could have picked up more than two yellow cards.
Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson said: “We lost the game in the set piece today as that gave them the ability to gain decent field positions.”
So Gloucester were able to provid...