AFTER similar poor performances in the first half of their last two home league games against Worcester and Bath, Gloucester’s director of rugby Johan Ackermann knows an improved start is badly needed.
He said: “The first half was not good enough as we needed to be patient and keep the ball against a massive team but we showed great character to come through it.
“We threw fifty-fifty passes and lost ball in contact but we knew that the longer the game went on, the more we would come into it, which is what happened.
“The second half was a lot better as our physicality...