Wasps A tonight at Sixways

[Neils]

Sirker quite speedy.

[Raggs]

Umaga really seems to do the deception well. It's key to stopping the defence from just blitzing out the back and killing the move.

[JonnyD]

That Sirker try is something else!!!!!

We have been running that move for years, most effectively off Cipriani. Bassett and Daly have regularly made line breaks with that love but no one has run it it like that from the left wing!!!!

[mike909]

Sirker - that try was v serious wheels, only Wade or a young Varndell could get close to that sort of extravagance - really good top speed as well as moves and the like. Wow!

[Hymenoptera]

Great try...but the Worc 15 was as quick in the race to the line?

[Damian68]

Great try...but the Worc 15 was as quick in the race to the line?

Pretty obvious from the video that Sirker was easing up from 10 metres out knowing that the try was in the bag even taking into consideration the covering defender had the angle on him! What the video also doesn't really show you is the work Sirker did before coming in off the left wing to take the pass out the back so he would be perfectly entitled to be feeling a little knackered toward the end of his run in.

To all that were in attendance that evening it was almost universally remarked by supporters (both Wasps and Worcester) that they couldn't recall seeing somebody cover the ground as quick as Sirker in scoring this try!

[Hymenoptera]

Thx for clarifying

[Damian68]

Thx for clarifying

You're very welcome Hymenoptera.

Just as an aside, I overheard a Wasps player talking to somebody whom I assumed to be a male family member saying that Sirker was officially the quickest player in the Club and had been clocked at a top speed of 10.5 metres per second in the previous Shield encounter with Leicester!

That equates to a speed of 37.8 km/h and, to put that speed into context, the fastest a player in the recent Hong Kong leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series was officially clocked at 36 km/h. At an elite level, where margins are generally pretty small, that difference is very significant and could explain why Sirker is so devastating:

https://twitter.com/WorldRugby7s/status/1115871041446973444

[Raggs]

If true, that's insane. Johnny May clocked a 10.49m/s recently, to give some easily comparable context.

[Damian68]

Indeed - and he's still only 20 years old !!

[mike909]

Wade went over 11 m/s

https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/christian-wades-top-speed-leaves-irish-hopefuls-dust-147787

The really, really quick guys would be getting 10.5 or 10.6 while Christian is regularly getting 11 and sometimes hitting 11.1 and 11.2

[Hymenoptera]

Wade was only quick on get go...over distance May would cream him

[Damian68]

Wade went over 11 m/s

https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/christian-wades-top-speed-leaves-irish-hopefuls-dust-147787

The really, really quick guys would be getting 10.5 or 10.6 while Christian is regularly getting 11 and sometimes hitting 11.1 and 11.2

That's interesting as Wade himself has said that Carlin Isles (USA 7s & Olympic qualified sprinter) is the fastest rugby player in the world - Isles appears in the video link I originally posted of the top 4 fastest players at this years' Hong Kong leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.

Here's the article where Wade talks about this subject:

https://www.rugbyworld.com/countries/rest-of-the-world/wadeys-fastest-men-rugby-36213

[andermt]

Thx for clarifying

You're very welcome Hymenoptera.

Just as an aside, I overheard a Wasps player talking to somebody whom I assumed to be a male family member saying that Sirker was officially the quickest player in the Club and had been clocked at a top speed of 10.5 metres per second in the previous Shield encounter with Leicester!

One of the tries Sirker scored in the 1st half against Tigers you could see him change gear as he obviously decided top speed was the key, so assume it was the one he clocked the highest speed.

I've seen him in a number of A-League games and I would say that it is only the last few he has really stepped upto the plate, in some of the earlier A Games he was quite anonymous which at the time was disappointing as when he played Prem 7's at the start of the season he was amazing.

[mike909]

Wade was only quick on get go...over distance May would cream him

If they both maintain their quoted top speed - that isn't true is it?