Gloucester 22-23 Bordeaux-Bègles | European Champions Cup play-off match report

• Gloucester 22-23 Bordeaux-BèglesA last-ditch drop goal denied Gloucester a place in next season’s European Champions Cup. Pierre Bernard’s effort from just outside the 22 edged Bordeaux-Bègles a point clear in a fraught finish. Until the fly-half popped up to finish off a final attack Gloucester had controlled most of this play-off match at Worcester’s Sixways ground, but they were denied at the death.David Humphreys, Gloucester’s director of rugby, admitted his team wasted their advantage before half-time. “It should have been dead and buried by then,” he said about a dominant first …