Saracens 46-24 GloucesterTom Parton scores fastest hat-trick in Premiership history
Not the biggest thrashing in Premiership history, maybe, but this was the sort of non-contest to give a competition a bad name. There was something dispiriting about the inevitability of what unfolded, albeit enlivened by a pair of quickfire hat-tricks, each harvested in less than a quarter of an hour.
Tom Parton did make Premiership history with his hat-trick, the third scored a few seconds into the 21st minute, breaking David Strettle’s record 11 years ago, also for Saracens. That set up a scoreline that read 32-0 on the hour, when Josh Hathaway scored his first hat-trick for Gloucester. He racked his up in 13 minutes – even quicker than Parton, who scored his in 15. If only the previous hour had not happened, the record would have been his.