Gloucester hoping Johan Ackermann can work another miracle | The Breakdown


He transformed the fortunes of the lowly Lions in South Africa, and the early signs have been positive for the latest man in charge at Kingsholm

Gloucester and Bath played before a full house at the Recreation Ground on Sunday. The only two full-time clubs in the Premiership who have never won it keep packing them in even though they have been shedding tears at Kingsholm this decade and Bath’s home has been one of wrecked dreams.

Gloucester, as is customary for a side that has spent the last few seasons wallowing in the wrong end of the league table, have a new head coach this season, the South African Johan Ackermann, who at the start of the decade was working for a consultancy firm having retired as a player in 2008.

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