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Gloucester are planning to raise awareness of mental health at their next home game against Sale.

It comes after fly-half Danny Cipriani was targeted on Twitter following the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack.

Former Love Island host Caroline, who dated Cipriani last year, was found dead at her London home on Saturday and a lawyer for her family confirmed she took her own life.

Cipriani said he never cried so much after hearing the news and missed a phone call from Caroline during Gloucester’s game against Exeter on Friday night.

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After being accused of using her death to criticise the media, Cipriani responded by saying: "You couldn’t be more misguided. I don’t know who you are. I sincerely hope u get the love you never received.

"This has nothing to do with a game. I missed her call because of a f*****g game. I’ve been up all night. Never cried this much. But I’m showing u it’s ok to be vulnerable."

Discussions have since taken place between Gloucester chief executive Lance Bradley and Cipriani about using the game against Sale on Friday, February 28 to promote a mental health charity and they will be meeting later today to iron out the details.

“As things developed over the weekend I thought we should try and turn this into something positive,” Bradley told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

“I spoke to Danny about ‘what do you think if we made our next home game in aid of a mental health charity with you at the forefront of it so we can turn it into something positive that everybody can unite behind?’

“Danny was very positive about that and that’s what we’re going to do. Danny was very keen to emphasise: be kind to people.”

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Bradley, who revealed on Twitter that he reported the abuse Cipriani received, also said that personal criticism of players is unfair.

"Our staff are in the limelight so much and some people think it’s okay to make them a target,” he said.

“And honestly it’s not. They’re people too.

“If you think a player didn’t play well or we should’ve won a game that we lost, all of those things are perfectly valid for fans

“Personal criticism I really don’t think has a place and people need to think, all of us need to think carefully about what we Tweet and I think the rule should be if you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, don’t say it.”

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