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The Most Important 21 Days Of The Season Start On Friday

Monday, March 10th 2008

Director of Rugby Philippe Saint Andre spoke this morning about yesterday's defeat and the next three games, he said,"Friday is the start of a critical 21 days for us with three home games in succession. Those 21 days will shape our season and we will have, by Saturday 5th April, a clearer picture of whether we will be on target for a top four finish in the Premiership and whether we have qualified for the European Challenge Cup Semi Finals. This type of run in will test everyone at the club and in that I include you the supporters. At Saracens we started poorly and were 21-0 down before we started to play our normal game. We showed character in the second half which has been lacking in the past few weeks. We picked up a losing bonus point which was better than nothing but it has put even more pressure on us to deliver on Friday evening.
Gloucester have a good squad of players, well coached and we will need to be at our very best on the night if we are to get the win we need to keep up our top four challenge.
We want to finish the season in style, achieve our target of a top four finish, win the European Challenge Cup and qualify for next season