Sam Te’o looks set to return to the All Golds line-up, while Brendan Smith and Joe McClean are also available to coach Steve McCormack. McCormack said: “I may have to leave out some good players this week, but that’s a good sign with regards to the squad. Some of our younger players have made those decisions even harder with their recent performances.” All Golds beat York City Knights in their last outing but McCormack insists they will not get complacent. He said: “Whatever has happened for us in the last few weeks has gone; we’ve got to keep moving forward. "I watched Oxford against Gateshead, South Wales and London, and they’re capable of scoring a lot of points.”

Orl coach Tony Benson is without Dave Ellison, Chris Clarke and Matty Hadden for Sunday’s clash. Benson said: “Gloucestershire have shown real improvement since Steve McCormack arrived there, and they’ve had two weeks to prepare for this. We know they’ll be tough.”

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Can not wait for this one the big Cotswold derby, with are 38-24 win over the All Golds back in April, i can not see why we can not do it once more ok maybe not by 14 but a win in this one would give ORL alot of hope for the rest of the season, so COME ON YOU BLUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ORL Team from = Baird, Benson, Bentley, Blaney, Briggs, Brooker, Connick, Crabtree, Davies, Ellison , Hadden, Hayles, Hoggins, S.Morris, Mulkeen, Osborn, Rowland, Rice, Sharratt, Temata, Thompson, Newton, Winfield.


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From the Gloucester Citiezen, www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Gold ... story.html

Another disappointing display, another defeat and not even a bonus point as consolation.

Gloucestershire are a decent side and Steve McCormack has certainly got them well organised. They were beatable though. On the rare occasions Oxford clicked they tended to scythe through the All Golds. However no side with the sort of error count rattled up can realistically hope to win. Many of the errors came very early in the set to make it a little worse.

I'm no blaming the ref, we deserved to lose, but it's fair to say the Oxford players nearest a couple of tries were unhappy they were given. Both times the ball came loose basically on the line and was touched down. Due to the eight lane running track I wouldn't like to say who was right, the ref or the players.

It should be mentioned both missed kicks hit the post. Neither were easy kicks.

Finally there were rumours a couple of players may have left. No idea who one is, the other seems to have left for totally understandable personal reasons and it's probably best to let the club reveal whatever info they agreed with him.

Onwards and hopefully upwards but we'll need to play much better next week or Oldham could be embarrassing.