Gloucester out to make Wasps defeat an 'anomaly' with Dragons in their sightsGloucester Rugby’s short trip over the Welsh border to face the Dragons in the final pool game of the European Challenge Cup is not a dead rubber match, insists George Skivington. Having already qualified for the last 16 knockout round of the competition which is to be played the following weekend and is a one-leg affair in the Challenge Cup rather than two-legged like the Champions Cup, Skivington could be excused ringing the changes. But after a disappointing 21-27 home defeat to Wasps in the Gallagher Premiership last weekend to hurt the club’s play-off chase chances, Gloucester head coach Skivington said: “We want the performance to be good so we can get back on the horse.
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” READ MORE: George Skivington looks inwards after rusty Gloucester come up short against Wasps Skivington said there were storm clouds over his household over the weekend and at the training ground on Monday and he and his side are looking to bounce back quickly after giving a poor account of themselves. “I don’t think it is a dead rubber game, ” he said. “I actually think it is a really important game for us because we have to get a performance and we need a few of those cogs to be firing again so last week’s display was an anomaly, and show we have learned from it.
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” “I think we will see a different Dragons to what we have for the bulk of the season and there are some ex-Gloucester people there as well so they will be looking forward to us coming over. " Whether Skivington is correct about his opponents' selection is unclear with winless Dragons having no way of progressing in the competition. Skivington added: “We have got an opportunity to get our heads back together and remember how painful it is to lose when you don’t quite get it right. “When we have lost games but been on it and given everything, you can take those, the tricky bit to swallow is we weren’t as good as we have been.
” The Cherry and Whites have a busy month ahead as they continue to battle for silverware on three fronts, sitting in touching distance of the top four in the Premiership with just four rounds remaining and having secured a place in the Premiership Rugby Cup semi-final against Worcester Warriors at Kingsholm on April 27. Skivington said: “We need to attack it and we want to go and win and win as many games as we can for the rest of the season, regardless of what is at stake or the permeations.
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