LI Game Thread

[Heathen]

Definitely more Waspies there!

The AP and LR fans were there in force. Many familiar faces.

[RogerE]

Who was MoM?

[NellyWellyWaspy]

Don't know, but surely HAD to be Willis?

[Neils]

It was an irish player. Not interested who.

[Rossm]

It was an irish player. Not interested who.

Well that makes sense

[Neils]

Their 20 minute scrum half got it!!

[Raggs]

Their 20 minute scrum half got it!!

That's got to be a mistake? I thought Meehan did really well and could deserve, but didn't notice Phipps at all.

[HDAWG]

Meehan was pretty brilliant, Phipps not bad but not great.

[RogerE]

Was the match on BT?

At our matches it seems that if it is then they award MoM, otherwise it goes to twitter for "Wasps Man of the Match"

[wasps]

Whats with the Dogwu love?

His try saving tackle was worth 7 points to us... That's as good as scoring himself.


I generally feel that he has minimal impact on games, however, he looks so busy all the time when he has ball in hand that you expect something special to happen - even though the tackle was probably the highlight of his day.

It's easy to get excited when someone looks like they can create something out of nothing... We just need that to materialise now.


Given recent form, I'd still be starting Kibirige when fit

[TheTameWasp]

Definitely more Waspies there!

The AP and LR fans were there in force. Many familiar faces.

along with RA fans who were also there in force, I know because I was one of them.

[Vespula Vulgaris]

Definitely more Waspies there!

The AP and LR fans were there in force. Many familiar faces.

along with RA fans who were also there in force, I know because I was one of them.

Is that Repton Avenue? Or Ricoh Arena?

[Wiltshire Wasp]

Two from Ricoh here. 😀

[RogerE]

The way the first LI try was something I am surprised not to see used more often.

Back in 1965, whilst at school it was something we did, quite successfully, a lot, as our then rugby master, John Dawes, identified that within a few yards of the line a team will defend pick and goes by spreading along the offside line, leaving the space behind undefended. So kicking from close to the ruck means you cannot be legally tackled, and the SH has the advantage of defenders having to turn before getting up to speed.

Although Watson's try was a thing of beauty, I did like the LI third try. The awareness of the prop to get the ball back as he was being driven out, and the awareness of Rogerson to pick up and go over was excellent.

[Tervueren]

Much as the Sarries match was great, a rare treat and some great play, there was an element of the opposition going to pieces so fast that people could have been hit by the shrapnel. Sunday was a test, a team on form with something to play for and (as it transpired) never going to give up.
Wasps were outplayed for the first half and it was looking like a early-season type surrender could be on the cards, and then they worked out what was in front of them, played like a team, and beat it.

To me (for the reasons given) this was an improvement from last week.