Good morning all Waspies from a clear and crisp Guildford! I’m up with the lark as usual, however my alarm this morning was conducted by my stomach after last nights vindaloo....Gaviscon is effective, but not for the 12 hours it promised on the bottle! My wife wonders when I will learn that my love of very hot food can be upsetting for my digestion, but then she remembers my love for Wasps and the impact that has! So as my local Indian restaurant owner knows he has my unquestioning loyalty -although there was an incident regarding an onion bhaji - so my ongoing lifelong love and loyalty to Wasps continues.
This is a huge game, win and top 6 is possible, lose and there is more chance we will be running out in Russia rather than La Rochelle next term. Make no bones about it this is one tough assignment! Continuing this weeks food theme, choking on my sandwich as I read the team sheets over lunch at work yesterday was 50% it going the wrong way and 50% seeing Chiefs lineup. They have gone fully loaded for this game, and will be hurting from last week. Baxter is a DOR I admire hugely, some may not agree with his style, but it is accurate, forceful, explosive and highly highly effective. He knows how to get the best out of his team and do it with consistency...If only we could get him HQ bound! We alternatively have a pack struggling to assert their physical dominance, a line out that is misfiring, our fantastic 10 trying to find his form once more, a 12 that divides opinion, a high earner that never found his true potential with us, a young group of extremely talented players that are still finding their way and a coaching and playing group as a whole that have been unable to assert our game plan and style for long enough to dominate other teams and get those precious wins. When you compare and contrast this could be a very tough 80 minutes where we are shoved all over the park and will spend more time under our posts than Andrew Ridgeley spent in George Michael’s shadow!....Maybe with all this against us, it could actually turn for us? Oh! There goes my stomach again! Where’s that Gaviscon?
Come on you Wasps!
Chris
Once a Wasp ALWAYS a Wasp!
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