Harlequins 20 Gloucester 14

Gloucester 23 Connacht 19

Connacht 10 Gloucester 14

Joe Worsley is set to miss out on playing in his fourth Rugby World Cup after being cut from England's training squad.

Matt Stevens’ return from the ignominy of a drugs ban continued today when he was confirmed in England’s 45-man Rugby World Cup training squad.

England 32 Barbarians 38

Hendre Fourie has replaced Joe Worsley in the England squad to play Italy in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations match at Twickenham after proving he has recovered from a calf strain.

Louis Deacon has been recalled to the England squad for the RBS 6 Nations as a replacement for banned Gloucester lock Dave Attwood.

PROP Tendai Mtawarira is a doubt for South Africa’s clash with England at Twickenham on Saturday after missing training yesterday with a medial knee ligament strain.

MUNSTER 15 GLOUCESTER 10

Tom Voyce, Scott Lawson and Will James all make their first starts of preseason for Gloucester against Munster at Musgrave Park on Friday evening.

DOUG HOWLETT is just one of a number of senior players set tointensify Munster’s pre-season effort when they take on Gloucester at Musgrave Park tonight (7pm).

Gloucester 19 Glasgow Warriors 6

England team manager Martin Johnson has insisted Danny Cipriani is still part of his plans for this season’s RBS 6 Nations Championship.

Biarritz 24 Gloucester 10

Gloucester 12 Cardiff Blues 16

Ben Foden’s blistering form for Northampton has been rewarded with a call-up to the elite England squad.

Harlequins wing Ugo Monye has been drafted into England’s elite player squad as replacement for the injured James Simpson-Daniel.

James Simpson-Daniel has been ruled out of England’s autumn internationals after suffering yet another cruel injury setback.

Gloucester 22 Biarritz 10

Rob Andrew has revealed injured fly-half Danny Cipriani is unlikely to be included in England’s elite player squad for next season.

ARGENTINA will play South Africa in Johannesburg on August 9 in the first move to include the World Cup semi-finalists in southern hemisphere competition, South African officials confirmed last night.

JAMES Simpson-Daniel is determined to help Gloucester cast off their nearly-men tag and finally savour Guinness Premiership title glory.

Gloucester boss Dean Ryan hailed Munster as “a team built for European rugby” after the Irish mean machine rumbled into its seventh Heineken Cup semi-final.

Gloucester head coach Dean Ryan is determined not to abandon his attacking principles in the cauldron of a Heineken Cup quarter-final against European heavyweights Munster.

England star Mike Tindall could return to action on Saturday – two months after suffering a sickening injury that put him in the intensive care unit of a London hospital.

JONNY WILKINSON and Lesley Vainikolo could be the high-profile casualties from England’s Murrayfield horror show.

Shane Geraghty’s hopes of forcing his way into England contention for the RBS 6 Nations clash against France next Saturday could be dashed by injury.

Gloucester 29 Ulster 21

Ospreys 32 Gloucester 15

GLOUCESTER boss Dean Ryanbelieves today’s Heineken Cup showdown against a star-studded Ospreys side “falls right into the top bracket” of European club rugby.

England boss Brian Ashton has sprung a major surprise in his 32-man RBS 6 Nations squad by selecting former Bradford Bulls rugby league star Lesley Vainikolo.

Bath 10 Gloucester 5

Dean Ryan has major injury concerns ahead of next weekend’s return game against Bourgoin in pool two of the Heineken Cup.

Bourgoin 7 Gloucester 31

Gloucester 26 Ospreys 18

Gloucester 26 Ospreys 18

Ulster 14 Gloucester 32

Ulster 14 Gloucester 32

David Strettle and Mike Tindall could both be ruled out of World Cup contention today when England boss Brian Ashton assesses his casualty list.

England’s troubled tour of South Africa is in danger of descending into complete disarray after four players were ruled out of Saturday’s second Test against South Africa at Loftus Versfeld.

David Strettle has been backed to make a full recovery from his disastrous trip to South Africa.

England’s battered and bruised squad limped out of Bloemfontein ready for possible further punishment from the Springboks, with pack leader Mark Regan admitting: “We’ve got another tidal wave coming at us”.

South Africa 58 England 10