Wasps v Tigers: Post Match Thoughts

[MarleyWasp]

Suspect we'll be without Hougaard for a few weeks. He looked like he pulled a hamstring as Brad made his break at the end.

[Rossm]

I don't think I've ever seen Lee so animated.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1480243486569938946

[Rossm]

During all the tension and excitement, I didn't realise that Ryan Mills never got on the pitch!

[Rossm]

And another thing. we nilled them in the second half. Quite a defensive achievement.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

During all the tension and excitement, I didn't realise that Ryan Mills never got on the pitch!

Did he not? I could have sworn I saw him in the second half.

[Bloke in North Dorset]

Suspect we'll be without Hougaard for a few weeks. He looked like he pulled a hamstring as Brad made his break at the end.

I hope not. I was just thinking he must be so full of confidence that we should get him back to 9, we're still too slow at the breakdown despite the 2nd half improvement.

[Bloke in North Dorset]

At one point in the 2nd half Charlie tried to run for our 22 but got in to trouble and the commentators remarked that because he'd had the ball in one hand he'd been able to keep it away from any prospective jackler until the cavalry arrived. That wasn't the only time he'd gone on a run with the ball in one hand but is wasn't picked up by the commentary team.

Is this something he's picked up or was he doing it before the injury?

[westwaleswasp]

Season turning performance, hopefully.
The sort of win that generates momentum, confidence and bums on seats. Just the tonic after the bad news vis-a-vis Fifita.
Hoogaard I think is likely to play on the wing for us for a while, he has a lot of rugby nous and looks busy.
Reminded me of Wasps Tigers of old, especially as our set piece was under pressure and we did not come out on top in the scrums, but our back row was immense, like the old days.

[backdoc]

They are playing Cluedo on the Tigers site.

Apparently it was the Ref that did it, with the whistle, at the CBS stadium

[Neils]

Not seen much mention of Biyi. He was loud in the second half. Think he helped level up the refs view of the scrum. Stooke was immense yet again. Spink was a very solid tackler and you could see his anger when some things didn't come off. Elsewhere I agree with others on the players.

[Westy68]

Well, who'd have thunk that would happen in the second half? Some team talk. Lee looked like he had turned into a kangaroo as he bounced up and down at the final whistle.

I dont think even the most optimistic of us saw that coming....and even more so after the first 40 Nelly! Lee's reaction and the boys being out on their feet told me the most....that this is a group that can ride out hardest of times and come out the other stronger.

Maybe this could be the making of us

[NellyWellyWaspy]

At one point in the 2nd half Charlie tried to run for our 22 but got in to trouble and the commentators remarked that because he'd had the ball in one hand he'd been able to keep it away from any prospective jackler until the cavalry arrived. That wasn't the only time he'd gone on a run with the ball in one hand but is wasn't picked up by the commentary team.

Is this something he's picked up or was he doing it before the injury?

Richie Mo'unga

[Covkid40]

Not seen much mention of Biyi. He was loud in the second half. Think he helped level up the refs view of the scrum. Stooke was immense yet again. Spink was a very solid tackler and you could see his anger when some things didn't come off. Elsewhere I agree with others on the players. Wasn’t a game to bring Mills on, the players were in the zone and battling for their lives and each other, I think changing the midfield would have unsettled it

From where we were sitting it looked like Genie had GTA beaten all ends up in the scrum but when Biyi came in it seemed to even up. I think a bit of praise should go to Nearachou (or however you spell it) while it is obvious he isn’t yet ready for premiership scrummaging but time and again he put himself in there and didn’t give up or surrender especially that set of scrums at the end where we kept getting pinged and tigers kept going back for another scrum. There was lots of encouragement from senior players and he didn’t shrink he went back for more and eventually stood his ground, well done young man. That will do his confidence the power of good

[BrackenandMacken]

Thought we were really really good in the second half.

Played with much greater pace and intent, we aren't going to win set piece based arm wrestles so we need to do all we can to avoid them.

Great to see how much the non playing squad enjoyed it, appears this group are really close knit.

Finally, pretty happy that you can't bring just a scrum to a game of rugby and come away with the win.

[HDAWG]

At one point in the 2nd half Charlie tried to run for our 22 but got in to trouble and the commentators remarked that because he'd had the ball in one hand he'd been able to keep it away from any prospective jackler until the cavalry arrived. That wasn't the only time he'd gone on a run with the ball in one hand but is wasn't picked up by the commentary team.

Is this something he's picked up or was he doing it before the injury?

Richie Mo'unga

This legit something Mo'unga does or jokes based on the article posted today?