Morning Neils, NWW, Ross and all Waspies from a grey old Guildford. Pre game ritual is underway, although I have temporarily replaced coffee with a nice cup of Yorkshire tea. Let us hope my change of routine will be reflected with our boys turning around their form and performance.
Looking at the two squads it has the potential to be a cracker. My concern however is that we have too many question marks over our lads. The forwards, especially the tight 5 are constantly struggling to match the physicality of the opposition, our scrum and line out rarely give good front foot ball, we lack turnover ball, and currently have a paucity of players jack long effectively. Umaga is having a crisis of confidence, I am concerned that it is going to take a few games for Robson to shake off the negative style that Eddie Jones loves so much. Our midfield looks unbalanced at present and our backs play in general has lost its potency. We look like a team playing with the weight of the world on our shoulders.
If this game is to go to form we will lose, and if we are unlucky we will possibly be the team that takes the heaviest beating of all this weekend, it really could be a man v our moment.
But sport has the wonderful ability to surprise, a 80 minute game from a team playing with unity, physicality, trust and spirit can get victory despite all odds, and this kind of victory can become a turning point in a clubs fortunes going forward.
Everyone is expecting us to lose, but can Lee and the boys find victory when certain defeat is predicted and indeed expected?
Come on you Wasps!
Chris
Once a Wasp ALWAYS a Wasp!