Making most of gamble by Gloucester

Will Gloucester’s rotation policy come back to bite them?

If Heineken Cup pool qualification is a sprint with no room for error, then how come Gloucester director of rugby Nigel Davies is sending a completely different team to Thomond Park from the one which did so well to beat Perpignan at Kingsholm last Saturday? Never mind the old adage of ‘if ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, conventional wisdom would suggest Munster, still wounded by defeat at Edinburgh, are going to come out all guns blazing this evening. This Gloucester team isn’t exactly full of lambs to the slaughter but it is a gamble to throw a new XV to the Thomond Park wolves.

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