A Team v Sale

[Rossm]

Wasps A have named their side to battle Sale Jets at Broadstreet RFC on Monday night (kick-off 7pm).

A young side includes 13 Academy players as they search for their first win of the season in Round 3 of the Premiership Rugby Shield.

Wasps also hand game-time to eight first-team players with the experienced Josh Bassett and Rob Miller starting on the wing and fly-half respectively.

Tickets for the game are free for Wasps Season Members and also for under 16s, while being £5 for all others. Car parking is also free on-site at Broadstreet.

15 Owain James

14 Tom Bacon

13 Cameron Anderson

12 Will Simonds

11 Josh Bassett

10 Rob Miller

9 Sam Wolstenholme

1 Ben Onyeama-Christie

2 Gabriel Oghre (C)

3 Jeff Toomaga-Allen

4 Ben Morris

5 Theo Vukasinovic

6 Harry Wilson (Hartpury RFC)

7 James Tunney

8 Will Wilson

 

Replacements

16 Alfie Barbeary

17 Zac Nearchou

18 Alex Hunt

19 Pete Vickers

20 Anjo Ademuwagun

21 Nick Harris (Trialist)

22 Sunni Jardine

23 Jude Williams

[Neils]

Ben Morris 2nd row again.

[Shugs]

JTA is the intriguing one for me. Presumably we're trying to get him some scrum time but it's a real indicator as to how we rate him that he's in the A team. Makes me wonder how much research went into his signing. It's ok whilst Brookes & Owlett are fit but we'll be relying on JTA if either are injured.

[Hymenoptera]

I see it as gametime, getting used to tings as much as anything. Opinion is split but I thought he has done some decent stuff in patches, just needs to settle down a bit

[JonnyD]

Not seen the Sale team but after last weeks performance we could be in for a long evening.

Searle not used this week which is interesting.
Bassett can’t be happy either but needs to show more.
Just shows how these retirements etc hurt us, Rieder, Garrett, Neal should be playing in these games to support the youngsters coming through but with all these injuries as well our squad does look weaker all of a sudden

[Shugs]

I'm confused as to how Bassett isn't playing instead of Kibirige. Kibirige probably edges things in attack but is very very average defensively and costs us tries.

[HDAWG]

Shugs, I agree somewhat. Bassett isn't great in attack in recent form... Depends which ability we're willing to compromise

[RBB]

Spoiler

If anyone is interested the feed is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5mHnYoW7E&feature=youtu.be

[Hymenoptera]

nice one..who's channel?

[RBB]

Sale - https://twitter.com/WaspsRugby/status/1209214361971122178?s=20 - BP win, here is the 4th try....Barbeary looked a handful when he was on, as you would expect...

[Hymenoptera]

JTA and Ogre  played well. Bearbury had a good carry but little opportunity..his darts werent all that though. Taller than i realised.

[Steve from Cov]

Tight game but the squad dug deep for the win.

Wolstenholme, Miller, JTA showed their experience. Some of the youngsters showed up well.

Nice to see Derek and a large number of first teamers eg Brad Shields, Zak, Tom Willis, Biyi, Juan, Tim Cardall there.

Well done fellas.

[Shugs]

A really positive display and as mentioned above a good squad turnout as well. A decent mix of grunt and guile. Wolstenholme looks a good prospect. Nice to see Bassett get over the whitewash and we have some very exciting academy prospects.

[Rossm]

Josh Bassett's swift reminder and five other things we learned from Wasps A win

Bobby Bridge Reports.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/wasps-rugby-news-sale-sharks-17468911