Tonight sees Gloucester face the long trip up to Kingston Park as they face Newcastle Falcons in the Premiership Cup quarter final.
The Cherry and Whites will be looking to go one step closer to retaining the Premiership Cup and become the first ever team to win the trophy on more than one occasion.
Gloucester’s defence coach was very clear that despite it now being knockout rugby that the side’s approach to the game would remain the same.
“We are approaching the quarter finals as we have the whole competition, we’re giving an opportunity to young guys who we want to keep as first team players for the future.
“We saw two weekends ago in Exeter that it’s a fantastic opportunity and the players are taking advantage of those opportunities.”
The side that Gloucester has named is heavily rotated as they go up against a fairly strong Newcastle Falcons XV, despite this Waldouck believes the young side stand a chance.
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“The quality of the session today was unbelievable. We’ve got a team defending today against Santi Carreras, Chris Harris, Seb Atkinson, Max Llewellyn and Tomos Williams. You’re not going to defend against a back line like that very often so, it was a good test for the lads but they stood up to it. It’s brilliant training against that sort of opposition, it is only developing the young players which is exactly what we’re trying to do with this Premiership Cup squad.”
Newcastle go into the game as clear favourites with the bookies having the home side as clear favourites, despite this, Waldouck believes Gloucester can cause a similar upset like they did a fortnight ago against fellow West Country side Exeter Chiefs.
“Our win was massively against the odds. When you look at the two team sheets on paper they were incomparable, but rugby is a game built on attitude and we showed unbelievable attitude. We were relentless, we were aggressive, we were committed to each other and when you do that you can do special things in a rugby game.”
Can Gloucester go against the odds and pick up a shock victory or will the Falcons fly into the semi final?
