Rugby: Gloucester take it on chin and credit Munster

IT’S often been said, but nonetheless true, the real measure of a team is how they react to defeat.

In that respect, and just as they were when they lost the corresponding fixture almost exactly a year ago, the men of Gloucester RFC are class, sheer class.

Gracious, generous, magnanimous, humorous even, despite the fact that it hurt, had to hurt, for the second season in succession they took it on the chin, gave credit where it was due. To Munster.