Danny Cipriani left Gloucester last night with immediate effect - and the club insisting there had been no bust-up. The mercurial fly-half, who will be replaced by Scotland No.10 Adam Hastings, said he went with “mixed emotions”.
But any suggestion he had been forced out was dismissed by Cherry and Whites chief executive Lance Bradley. “Mutual consent always makes it sound like there’s some big secret or that some terrible bust-up must have happened,” said Bradley. “But that’s not the case.
I understand why people must think there must be a bigger story here but there really isn’t. “It’s more that both of us realised it wasn’t working and we’d be better off trying something else.” The timing is strange, coming four games into the new season
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