Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I huri a Kingsholm hei Whare o te Harikoa i te pō o te Rāhoroi i te wā i whiua ai e Gloucester a Exeter ki te whakatakoto i tētahi whiringa toa o te Challenge Cup ki a Edinburgh. I tukuna e te Cherry me nga White te mahinga tino pai o te pakanga ki te whiwhi waahi ki Twickenham Stoop - ka whakataetae ratou mo to raatau taitara Pakeha tuatahi mai i te 2006. Ko te wikitoria i te taone nui ka whiwhi i te taha o te Tai Hauauru he waahi mo te kapa Champions Cup i te tau e whai ake nei, engari ka akiakihia ratou ki te rapu waahi rereke mo te tukinga na te mea he konohete Madness kua whakaritea i mua o te The Shed. Kei te whakanui a Bill Meakes i muri i tana whiwhinga i te whiringa tuatahi mo tana kapa i Kingsholm. Ka wikitoria a Mariano Galarza i tētahi whakawāwā i a ia e titiro ana ki te whakatakoto i tētahi atu whakaeke. "He whakamutunga nui tēnei", te kī a David Humphreys, kaiwhakahaere o te whutupaoro o Gloucester. <unk>E whai wāhi ana mātou ki te tango i tētahi mea whai tikanga mai i te wā.<unk> He pō whakahirahira tēnei mō Gloucester, nā te mea kua kore te pakanga o te kapa Aviva Premiership. I tākaro rātau ki te whāinga me te whāinga, e whakatū ana i tētahi turanga i te kōhanga hei tāpiri i to rātau oma uaua i te kokonga. Engari kaore i taea e ratou te whakamahi i te rohe wawe, ka tohaina 3-3 i muri i te hawhe haora. I whakatuwheratia e Greig Laidlaw te kaute me <unk> ki te waiata o <unk> tinihanga, tinihanga, tinihanga <unk> i muri i tana nekehanga tinihanga i tana tee ki te tata atu ki nga pou <unk> Henry Slade i whakatauhia mai i te 40 mita. Ko Sione Kalamafoni, kaitākaro o te kapa Cherry me te kapa White, ka tukinotia e Kai Horstmann, kaitākaro o te kapa Chiefs. I taea e Nick Wood, te upoko-kore o Gloucester, te uru ki raro i te kaitautoko Anglo-Welsh a Tomas Francis, i tino miharo ki a Northampton, ki te whakapumau i te mana o te scrum. I a ia e koa ana ki te rohe me te mana, ka eke a Bill Meakes i te whiu a James Hook, me etahi atu whiu ka eke te ope ki te 13-6 i te wa o te haurua. I werohia a Jack Nowell ki roto i tana potae, ā, i tāpiri atu ki te tautohetohe o nā tata nei mō te whai huatanga o te potae tiaki, ā, i hoki whakamuri tōna taha me ētahi atu tohu e ono mai i te hu a Slade. Engari...
I eke a Gloucester i nga whakamatautau ahakoa ko Bill Meakes, Tom Savage me Jonny May. I whakautu a Exeter mā te whiwhinga kotahi a Elvis Taione. Ka whakataetae te kapa Cherry and Whites mō tā rātou taitara Pākehā tuatahi mai i te tau 2006.