Gloucester win a penalty after an infringement at the scrum and James Hook goes for the posts. It's off target, but still plenty to encourage Laurie Fisher so far.

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Five minutes to go before the break as Worcester lock Darren Barry limps off holding his shoulder and is replaced by Dan Sanderson.

Warriors are on the attack again but they concede the penalty for not releasing. Good work from Luther Burrell there.

How did he not score? 

Wynand Olivier goes straight through a gap in the Saints defence but he can't put the ball over the line. Teimana Harrison with a superb tackle to deny him and Northampton are extremely lucky not to be further behind in this game.

Tom Collins with a lovely break for Northampton as he wriggles past three or four defenders. Bryce Heem's excellent tap-tackle brings him down just short of the line and Warriors survive.

We go back for the penalty and Myler once again kicks to touch. But after another decent spell in Worcester's 22, Saints come away with nothing.

Newcastle give away the penalty and James Hook makes no mistake from the tee. Early lead for Gloucester.

There's also been a late change for Newcastle. Andy Goode took a knock in the week and has been replaced by Craig Willis in the starting XV.

Meanwhile, Gloucester's Jacob Rowan was absolutely pole-axed from the kick off and is replaced by Matt Kvesic.

Francois Hougaard is running the show here and Worcester are looking dangerous. 

Saints are having to absorb a lot of pressure but the Warriors are careless with the ball-in-hand and Northampton will have the scrum with 17 minutes played.

Gloucester's James Hook gets us started. Big, big game for both sides.

Gloucester and Newcastle emerge from the tunnel at Kingsholm. Have we got another 10-try thriller on our hands? Lets hope so!

Tom Heathcote strikes the ball straight through the middle and the visitors take the lead against the run of play.

Worcester are working hard in defence here as Saints are on the front foot. Warriors are called for a couple of offsides but Saints reluctant to take the points and they kick for the corner.

End-to-end stuff as Warriors defence survives and they surge upfield on the counter-attack.

Newcastle make four changes to the starting XV in winger Giamba Venditti, scrum-half Sonatane Takulua, lock Calum Green and back-rower Richard Mayhew.

Michael Young and Mouritz Botha make the bench, but Alex Tait and Sean Robinson drop out.

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Replacements: McGuigan, Rogers, Hatakeyama, Botha, Clever, Young, Willis, Socino. 

Gloucester make seven changes to the side that lost to 14-man Saracens in their last Premiership fixture.

Prop Nick Wood is out after he was punched against Sarries, while flanker Ross Moriarty replaces Matt Kvesic.

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Replacements: Dawidiuk, Thomas, Doran-Jones, Savage, Kvesic, Braley, Burns, Trinder. 

After recording back-to-back wins in the Premiership for the first time, Gloucester stalled in dramatic fashion against league leaders Saracens last week.

Up against 14 men for 60 minutes, the Cherry and Whites never really got going, prompting director of rugby David Humphreys to say his side went about 18 months backward I in their development.

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Newcastle Falcons are looking much less the relegation-threatened side they were a week ago, having beaten play-off chasing Northampton at Kington Park.

Dean Richard’s men start the day seven point clear of the drop zone and as full of confidence that a one of the league’s perennial strugglers could be.

So, just the 10 tries to start the afternoon's Premiership action then! 

Unbelievable entertainment at the AJ Bell Stadium.

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A lively start here as Worcester win a penalty on half-way. Tom Heathcote has a shot at the posts but his kick falls wide. 

An early opportunity missed there.