Wasps squad update ahead of Sale Sharks trip

[Rossm]

Bobby Bridge reports:

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/joe-launchbury-wasps-rugby-news-17205169

[BG]

Sale are going to be without their 4 WC finalist players but will still be able to field a very strong side (I wonder if PRL are now going to actively start analysing other clubs' squad's and doing "back of a fag packet" calculations)

If Matteo, Paolo and Zach are fit then I'd play them again, maybe have Watson on the bench to cover 15 and wing.

If Gaskell doesn't recover then I can see Launchers being dropped in. He must be busting a gut to get onto the field.

Just looking through the senior squad I'd completely forgotten about Theo Vukasinovic. Flament seems to have usurped him  and despite not even being in the senior sqaud, is almost a guaranteed selection for the 23 at the moment. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Flament, out of the forwards, is near the top of minutes played tis season.

[HDAWG]

Quick note that Launchbury is very unlikely to play surely. He may not have had any games (bar one group stage) but he's not been a part of the wasps structure.

I want him to play, just maybe a a week or 2 to get up to speed

[Neils]

Launchers = Bordeaux  I would think.

[BG]

Launchers = Bordeaux  I would think.

Eh? What the club or a bottle of?

[Neils]

Launchers = Bordeaux  I would think.

Eh? What the club or a bottle of?

We will welcome him to the club with a bottle in France!

[Brandnewtorugby]

Dai said he was giving Launchbury a week with his family first. So at least two weeks.

[Hymenoptera]

Not sure how Watson doesn't start

[Neils]

Not sure how Watson doesn't start

Bench perhaps as the others played well last game?

[Hymenoptera]

No. He is our most attacking threat, that's agreed upon, he's scored a couple of good tries. Dog did ok last game but did nothing that puts him as a starter, especially against a team that know's him inside out.

[Shugs]

For me Watson starts instead of Kibirige. I'd be tempted to stick with Odogwu against his old club. Sounds like Gaskell is touch and go so Flament gets a go. Not only does he seem to have usurped Vukasinovic but also Matthews.

[Rossm]

Brief interview with Thibaud:

https://twitter.com/WaspsRugby/status/1192154683814633473