Morgan ready for Newcastle fight

Gloucester’s Olly Morgan expects Newcastle to be looking for revenge for the LV= Cup when they visit Kingsholm.

The teams met a fortnight ago with Gloucester dominant 34-7 winners.

“Newcastle will be wanting to right a few wrongs and they’ll have put that final to bed and moved on,” full-back Morgan told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

“For us, psychologically, without being aware of it there might be something there but we take it one step at a time and this weekend will be difficult.”

Gloucester plan this to be the first step of another winning run after coming unstuck at Harlequins last time out.

A club record 11 victories in a row helped them climb to third in the Premiership in the race for an end-of-season play-off place.

But that run came to a crashing halt

at Quins in a 53-15 rout,

a game Morgan missed because of a knock to his medial ligament sustained in the final against the Falcons at Franklin’s Gardens.

The 25-year-old is fit again to resume his position in the number 15 shirt and believes stiff competition for places on the back of recent successes will help as they look to extend Newcastle’s losing run at Kingsholm, which dates to April 1998.

“With the 11 games we were missing key players and guys really stepped up in the last two or three months,” added Morgan.

“It was no different at the weekend, but things just didn’t click. We simply weren’t good enough and Quins took full advantage.”