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Aviva Premiership Round 21 Preview
The Falcons will be hoping that Bath can do them a favour by beating Wasps this afternoon which will ensure Newcastle still have a chance of staying in the Premiership next season.
Post-match reaction: Bath 36-17 Worcester Warriors
Bath secured a bonus point victory over Worcester Warriors at the Rec with two tries coming from both Michael Claassens and Tom Biggs with Matt Banahan adding another. Worcester on the other hand could manage only two from Arscott and Benjamin. Simon Ward was on hand and caught up with Sam Vesty and Matt Banahan after the match.Aviva Premiership Round 13 Review
Northampton put 24 points past Quins to seal victory at Franklin’s Gardens. The win puts the Heineken Cup runners-up into third place in the Aviva Premiership table. Jim Mallinder was pleased with his side's performance and said "Defensively we shut them up and stopped them playing, which of course they are good at, so we're very pleased.”
Sixways was full to capacity for Worcester v Gloucester in a local derby match. Tries from Andy Goode and Marcel Garvey for the Warriors sealed the win whilst Jonny May's try gained Gloucester a losing bonus point.
Gloucester boss, Bryan Redpath, said “I felt that Freddie Burns directed us around well in the first half, but in the second half our retention of possession was poor and we tried to throw the ball around a bit too much.”
Post-match reaction: London Wasps 0-6 Worcester
Former Aviva Premiership champions, London Wasps, have slipped to second bottom of the table after losing for the fifth straight time in the league. Worcester now climb above them in the table after winning a game with the joint-lowest overall scoreline in Premiership history. After the game at Adam's Park, Russell Hargreaves spoke to Wasps lock Richard Birkett and Worcester's former England scrum half Shaun Perry.
Aviva Premiership: Worcester 13-32 Leicester
Leicester Tigers powered past the Worcester Warriors at Sixways with a four try victory putting them into 5th place in the Aviva Premiership table.
It took the 9 time English champions just 22 minutes to gain a lead of 17 points that under normal circumstances would have been hard to come by for the entirety of the first half, if not the match. However, this wasn’t normal circumstances; this was a Leicester side featuring the likes of Toby Flood, Manu Tuilagi, Ben Youngs along with a whole host of up-and-coming players.
Newly promoted Worcester Warriors faced a tough challenge at the break when they trailed byan almost unsurpassable 20-3.
Newly promoted Worcester Warriors faced a tough challenge at the break when they trailed byan almost unsurpassable 20-3.
Featured Match - Gloucester v Worcester
One of Gloucester ’s many young stars, Jonny May, and opened Gloucester Gloucester
A confident looking Tim Taylor added six more points from penalties in the next few minutes and added another just after the thirty minute mark.
Worcester Legend set to Retire
His career ending injury was suffered five months ago, in March when Worcester took on Bristol in one of the Championship play-offs.
Sanderson has had a very succesful career appearing in a Worcester shirt more than one hundred times and captaining England with an international career spanning from 1998 through to 2007.