Challenge Cup Progress Can Provide Financial Boost For Glos

Gloucester can off-set the financial deficit of missing out on the Champions Cup this season but reaching the semi finals of the Challenge Cup, according to chief executive Stephen Vaughan. The Gloucester Citizen have reported Vaughan as saying that beating Connacht at home in the quarter finals and thus earning a home semi final will provide a timely financial boost. The Cherry and Whites were left with a big hole in their financial forecasts by finishing ninth in last season's Premiership and therefore failing to qualify for the top tier of European rugby. Vaughan said: "We had a significant…