New Gloucester coach Nigel Davies has insisted that the team won't be successful unless they play for each other.

The Cherry and Whites are currently on a pre-season training camp in the French Alps ahead of the new Aviva Premiership season. Davies hopes that the players will be able to forge unbreakable bonds while away from England.

"It's absolutely vital to go through these team-building exercises. This group has to be a family, they have to act and react like a family, and look after each other," said Davies.

"And to do that they have to have a very good feel for each other. And that's one of the things that I'm sure we'll get out of Tignes. The aim is to come back from Tignes with a powerful bond as a unit, and return to Kingsholm as a family.

"We've got to care about each other and about our ambitions and challenges right up to that level, there's nothing else for it. If we can't do that, we can't succeed. But in everything I have seen from the squad and the new set-up so far, I'm very confident that we will generate that kind of atmosphere."

Gloucester finished ninth in the league last season.