Gloucester head coach George Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
“I expected us to be good in defence, I expected us to try and back up what we did last week but nilling a team is outstanding and that shows character more than anything.
“The work Joel Tomkins [defence coach] has done to get the boys in that mindset is great.
“The snapshot for me of the game is when we are winning at the end and we chase back as hard as we did to stop Quins getting a try – that’s really the character we’re looking for.
“All round pretty happy, I think there’s a lot of things we can do better. We felt like that at half-time, that was what we talked about, and that’s testament to the group – they’re working unbelievably hard, theyre not satisfied.”
Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore said:
“The performance was totally unacceptable and you are not going to win a game with a 21-5 penalty count against you.
“We fed the referee, which meant we struggled for possession, and they were able to get easy field position and were able to launch 20 line-outs in the red zone to our five.
“At half-time we felt we could still do something but conceding two tries in the first four minutes after the interval took the wind out of our sails.
“That put the result beyond doubt and we spun out of control afterwards as we tried to chase the game.”
Gloucester: Barton; Thorley, Joseph, S. Atkinson, Loader; C. Atkinson, Englefield; Rapava-Ruskin, Lake (capt), Fasogbon, Kleyn, Clark, Thomas, Morgan, Trenholm.
Replacements: Innard, Bleuler, C. Knight, Clement, Ludlow, Robson, W. Knight, Denny.
Harlequins: Furbank; Anderson, Beard, Bradley, Murley (capt); Slevin, Porter; Hobson, Walker, Delgado, Dun, Browne, Kenningham, Evans, Carr.
Sin-bin: Evans (17 mins)
Replacements: Riley, Wenger, Kerrod, Petti, Cunningham-South, Friday, Lang, Green.
Referee: Sara Cox.
