Glos to Sink Bath (pun) - Hopefully

As suggested last night, the city’s finest chance of winning the Powergen Cup was to draw Bath at home and that is the tie that has emerged from the hat tonight. I’ll certainly settle for that. Hopefully we can find a tad more confidence within the squad by then, James Simpson-Daniel will move inside to provide the midfield with more creativity and the correct balance in the front, second and back rows will be discovered - by live sacrifice ritual if need be. I am still unclear what a home draw actually means. Do we play Bath at Kingsholm Stadium or merely at a large venue of our choice near to Gloucester? Oh, what a palaver!

I sense a war of words brewing in the respected sports pages of The Citizen. Andy Gomarsall keeps banging on about how much he loves the club, how much he wants to stay, how badly he wants a new contract to be signed, even how a supporter came up to him at the weekend and told him he wanted to have Andy’s babies. That’s a Lloyd Cole reference by the way. Tonight Melville, very pointedly I thought, wrote in his column that the club rarely saw its England players so they should be reasonable in their wage demands. I don’t dislike Gomarsall although for a so called international class player I would have expected more than the occasional match for the city where he has actually bossed proceedings noticeably. I also think he’s a bit of ‘a tart’ at times, kissing the badge and overdoing the ‘we are not worthy’ muppetry. I would rather he remained at Gloucester but if he thinks he is worth 170K he can shove off to Saracens or another soulless shack.