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Lewis Ludlow hits major Gloucester milestone

GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND - APRIL 27: Gloucester's Lewis Ludlow celebrates scoring his sides third try during the Gallagher Premiership Rugby match between Gloucester Rugby and Exeter Chiefs at Kingsholm Stadium on April 27, 2025 in Gloucester, England. (Photo by Bob Bradford - CameraSport via Getty Images)

Former captain Lewis Ludlow will play his 250th game for Gloucester after being named in the back row for the visit of Harlequins on Saturday.

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The openside, who returns from a hand injury, is not the only player to reach a milestone at Kingsholm, as winger Ollie Thorley is set for his 150th appearance for the Cherry & Whites.

Ludlow will be joined in the back row by PREM debutant, Deian Gwynne, and Will Trenholm.

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Matias Alemanno and Freddie Thomas, back from international duty, pack down in the second row, with Ciaran Knight, Seb Blake and Kirill Gotovtsev in front of them.

In the backs, captain Tomos Williams combines with Ross Byrne once more, with Seb Atkinson also returning from injury to partner Will Joseph in midfield.

Thorley is joined by a second PREM debutant in Rob Russell and Ben Redshaw in the back three.

On the bench, Val Rapava Ruskin is back in a Gloucester matchday squad for the first time this season.

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Meanwhile, the club have confirmed that scrum-half Caolan Englefield won’t play again in 2025. Englefield suffered a shoulder injury whilst playing for England A against Spain.

Gloucester v Harlequins:

15 Ben Redshaw
14 Rob Russell*
13 Will Joseph
12 Seb Atkinson
11 Ollie Thorley
10 Ross Byrne
9 Tomos Williams (C)
1 Ciaran Knight
2 Seb Blake
3 Kirill Gotovtsev
4 Freddie Thomas
5 Matias Alemanno
6 Deian Gwynne*
7 Lewis Ludlow
8 Will Trenholm

16 Kealan Freeman-Price*
17 Val Rapava Ruskin
18 Afo Fasogbon
19 Cam Jordan
20 Josh Basham
21 Mikey Austin
22 Charlie Atkinson
23 Jack Cotgreave

*Denotes Gallagher PREM debut.

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GrahamVF 5 minutes ago
Robertson's departure could herald the biggest shake-up in New Zealand rugby history

My perspective is the difference in expectation pressure between the NZ coach and Rassie. SA fans remember not very long ago the ignominy of being routinely beaten by the All Blacks with even lower points every now and again like losing to Italy. Post Rassie we are grateful for every win and really not that fussed with the occasional loss because we see progress. Compare that to the NZ fan base - almost a reverse mirror image. For a large portion of the current generation’s experience, AB wins were taken for granted and losses were hard to take - that puts pressure on the coach to be conservative and stick with the players he knows best. It’s being not afraid to lose if the end result works vs the expectation to win every game. The NZ national rugby coach is in a similar position to the Australian national cricket coach. Every loss results in accusations of wrong selections and wrong tactics - probably the most precarious jobs in international sport.

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cw 15 minutes ago
Jeff Wilson: 'They didn't play with a great deal of confidence'

Agree Robertson failed badly. But you don’t give him enough credit for the reformation he was undertaking. Perhaps it was a Crusader plan - but why is that a negative - he won 7 Super Championships with it - it would be surprising if he did not look to build a team around a plan that had that level of success. But it was in any event directed to meeting a hard fact - ABs had fallen well behind the power and intensity of SA and France, and latterly England. For too long the ABs had become over reliant on a smash and grab all of game counter attack. By stark contrast Robertson was focused on building structured power game where he could rely on set piece dominance and synchronised attacking structures. At one level it produced a remarkable statistic - 87 % of tries scored from set piece and within the red zone. Of course the negative flip side is the almost total absence of counter attack. But perhaps more importantly Razor was visibly reshaping the forwards - he could now assemble a starting and impact pack to rival the gargantuan packs of SA and France for the full 80 minutes involving among other things a three lock second row strategy with Vaa’i and Holland playing 6 when fit that when deployed never went backwards including against the Boks and 6-2 French impact packs. His greatest failure in my view is that he was too conservative and did not fully implement this structured power game and go 6-2 especially against the English who had already mastered what NB has called “periodising” - the art of maximising intensity at key times. The loss against them was highly predictable because of it. But it is simply wrong to say that Razor did not innovate - he did but as you say lacked the confidence or ability to get his team to fully implement. Razor also clearly had the insight that if he did not build the Black Crusaders the ABs were are serious risk of free fall. A stark statistic in this regard is that the tier one team with the bigger combined start and impact packs measured by collective weight and height won all games against other tier one teams last year including the ABs v SA at Eden Park, the Boks in Wellington, Paris and Dublin and the English in London. Finally, Razor this year achieved the best win % improvement of all tier one teams last except England (and they did not play the Boks) and the ABs was the only tier one team to beat the Boks. So yeah he deserves some some credit.

PS I am not a Crusader fan and looking forward to Joseph taking over.



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PB 18 minutes ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

You haven’t for a minute stopped to consider that Rassie has inly now posted something. So for a few days he didn’t take time to consult with Tony, where he stands? Honestly!

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Over the sideline 18 minutes ago
New Zealand Rugby confirm Scott Robertson's All Blacks exit

Yes t wasn’t till the Arg leg of the RC when Dmac went home because his grandmother died. Mounga started in the Arg test and then the SA test.

I think, after this week, people are realising that afostet wasn’t the problem people thought he was and it becomes clearer where the problems were. Mounga at 10 was one of those problems. Razor has destroyed every 10 he’s had and failed to bring thru a new one or two. We are basically a generation behind now due to the policy Razor had of “bring back Mounga”.



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Jordon 19 minutes ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

If you were TB and you were considering jumping ship if the opportunity came up, would you tell rassie? What if it doesn’t come up. I think the chances are 90% he stays in SA. You never know. I dont think Joseph should get the job though. It should be Schmidt to take them to 2027.

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Over the sideline 28 minutes ago
New Zealand Rugby confirm Scott Robertson's All Blacks exit

Ok didn’t know that. Thought he had recently re-signed with the Women’s team.

Very good coach and NZR could definately do worse. It would be a “back to the future” moment but has he any desire to coach the ABs after 2003?



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Over the sideline 33 minutes ago
Robertson's departure could herald the biggest shake-up in New Zealand rugby history

Yes an assistants role could be possible for sure. People thinking ROG as HC are very wrong tho. McMillian os another name I’ve seen suggested. I put him in the pile same boat as ROG.

I see nothing but experience being chosen after Razors two years.



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Over the sideline 39 minutes ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

But not Kolisi of course. He is 2mm lower so only a yellow eh. That must be the “mittergating 2mm””.

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GrahamVF 41 minutes ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

Jerking your chain mate.

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Over the sideline 41 minutes ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

Maybe he could have changed his thinking, but I think he is too conservative. Year 1 was time for change but he failed that. Year 1 losses with would have been accepted far better had we seen change, but we basically daw Foster selections. Year 2 never really got going with good followed by bad, and wrong decisions repeated.

YEs perhaps a 6-2 split could be done but lots of things could have.



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Over the sideline 48 minutes ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

The even more obvious answer is “can they do any worse” and the clear answer to that is “I doubt it”.

Something had to change. I gather Razor didn’t see it the same way.



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Over the sideline 53 minutes ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

Haha agree!!!! This is going to drag out tho I think.

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Over the sideline 55 minutes ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

Spot on. I felt it was the best time to make the decision. Why spend another year wasted. Just wernt seeing progress sadly. Razor bought promise but did not deliver

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GrahamVF 58 minutes ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

And now it has come. So cast your desperation in another direction.

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Over the sideline 1 hour ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

So they WERNT FIGHTING for a draw?

Weirdly enough when your team is 7 POINTS BEHIND with mins to go, bit according to you they wernt fighting to score.



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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

Clearly having Brown means a lot to NZ fans. From our side if Brown wants to swap the pool of emerging talent coming from the Junior World Champions together with the 40-odd players who already have considerable test experience, for what the NZ player pool has to offer he’s welcome. The outcome of the next WC certainly does not depend on TB. We love him here because he loves being here. And one thing is for sure - he has far more freedom under Rassie than he would under the very straight laced NZ rugby authorities. Can you really see NZR saying to Brown “have go your way - if we lose, we lose. Were in it for the long term goal.” NZR spurned him and now desperately want to get him back. What did they expect - that Brown should sit on his hands until NZ decided to give him a go, and when they did decide he should drop everything and gratefully jump at the opportunity to be the next victim of NZ short sightedness?What a strange situation for the mightiest rugby nation on earth to be in. The key to all this lies in the expectations of fans. The NZ fan pool by and large expect the AB’s to win every game - three losses in a row and talk of changing coaches begins.

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Over the sideline 1 hour ago
Sir Wayne Smith: NZR has jumped the gun on Razor’s All Blacks exit

So… Rassie appointed in 2018… you must be 6-7. Not a cute child at all tho

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PB 1 hour ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

That my one-eyed friend will only become apparent in the next two years. I believe the NZR have committed the rugby equivalent of Hari kiri

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PB 1 hour ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

Poppycock! You really believe since news broke if Razor’s axing, Rassie didn’t consult with Tony? Like really! Did you even think this comment through, or is it simple desperation from the AB fans as their ship starts to take on water?

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Jordon 1 hour ago
Rassie Erasmus squashes Tony Brown's All Blacks coaching rumours

Why don’t you take your eye patch off and just admit that we were all wrong. Robertson was never the man for the job. That became clear a while ago.

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