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Head coach George Skivington said there is a lot of “hurt” in the Gloucester team after three consecutive Premiership losses.<\/span><\/p>\n Gloucester have fallen to defeats by Sale, Newcastle and Harlequins in November and are seventh in the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n They next face Northampton at Kingsholm on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n “We are disappointed, there is a lot of hurt in the camp right now,” Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. <\/span><\/p>\n “This autumn period hasn’t been very kind to us but there’s reasons for that. <\/span><\/p>\n “I think the best thing you can do is be honest as a group, review the game very honestly, make sure everybody understands what happens in the Premiership if you lose a couple of games and the context around that. <\/span><\/p>\n “But then you’ve got to move on roll your sleeves up and try and be better at what you’ve got to improve on.”<\/span><\/p>\n Gloucester had started the season well, going unbeaten in October, before the run of losses.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet in their three recent matches they repeatedly conceded a host of tries early on, falling 14-0 down to Sale and Quins inside 15 minutes and just failing to fight back from being 24-0 down against the Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’m not concerned by any lack of motivation or anything like that,” Skivington said.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s more the reality of you’ve got to address the issues and we’ve had a few similar issues three games on the trot now and that’s got to change.”<\/span><\/p>\n Gloucester were without a number of first-choice players through November due to the autumn internationals and Skivington said other players stepping in had been on a learning curve.<\/span><\/p>\n “I don’t think it’s complacency, certainly some younger players have learnt some serious lessons over this autumn period that’s for sure, we can’t get away from that,” he added. <\/span><\/p>\n “Good and bad lessons, they’ve all fought unbelievably hard but possibly the shock of the intensity of the Premiership has caught us a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n “I think there’s some poor mistakes and some poor execution early in our game plan and that’s something we are very honest about as a group.”<\/span><\/p>\n Gloucester will remain without fly-half Adam Hastings for the next few weeks after he sustained a knee injury on international duty with Scotland. <\/span><\/p>\n However they have been handed a boost after winger Louis Rees-Zammit was helped off the pitch with an injury in the closing moments of the defeat by Harlequins.<\/span><\/p>\n