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Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« on: January 24, 2022, 10:40:47 AM »
But Dan Frost could miss Six Nations period

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https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/wasps-injury-updates-joe-launchbury-22849746
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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2022, 10:44:03 AM »
Not sure I love the second part of that Headline!

Feels like this season is a game of Snakes and Ladders!

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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2022, 10:47:30 AM »
Not sure I love the second part of that Headline!

Feels like this season is a game of Snakes and Ladders!

+1 knowing our lack of luck that's an operation incoming.
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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2022, 11:20:31 AM »
Frost is one of those players a bit like Fekitoa - almost to involved for his own good. It’s great but he will pick up injuries. Wouldn’t change him though. Personally I’d have Launchbury on the bench and go with Cardall and Stooke with Gaskell at 6.

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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2022, 11:30:09 AM »
Launch, Gaskell and Fifita 4,5,6 for me.  Stooke to start on the bench, only as he's had a lot of minutes this season and could probably do with a bit of a break.

Hopefully, we can put a 6,7,8 out of Fifita, Brad and T.Willis.  That's a big old back 5 in the pack, but also a pretty mobile one.

ETA: Sorry Shugs - Looks like i'm copying you.  Genuinely replied to this before seeing you'd posted pretty much the same in the post-Munster thread.  Great minds and all that...  :D
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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2022, 12:17:46 PM »
Launch, Gaskell and Fifita 4,5,6 for me.  Stooke to start on the bench, only as he's had a lot of minutes this season and could probably do with a bit of a break.

Hopefully, we can put a 6,7,8 out of Fifita, Brad and T.Willis.  That's a big old back 5 in the pack, but also a pretty mobile one.

ETA: Sorry Shugs - Looks like i'm copying you.  Genuinely replied to this before seeing you'd posted pretty much the same in the post-Munster thread.  Great minds and all that...  :D
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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2022, 01:01:28 PM »
The amount of time Shields has spent on the pitch without a break worries me - he gives so much. He must be drained. Alternative??

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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2022, 01:14:30 PM »
Alternatives would be Fifita, Gaskell, Curran. But it looks like we may be without Morris, Carr and Young and we don’t know if we’re getting Barbeary back. So you’re possibly picking a back row from the three above plus Tom Willis. With Frosts injury even the possibility of Oghre covering might not be feasible. So I think Brad gets his boots on again.

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Re: Wasps handed Joe Launchbury boost.
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2022, 01:17:42 PM »
Alternatives would be Fifita, Gaskell, Curran. But it looks like we may be without Morris, Carr and Young and we don’t know if we’re getting Barbeary back. So you’re possibly picking a back row from the three above plus Tom Willis. With Frosts injury even the possibility of Oghre covering might not be feasible. So I think Brad gets his boots on again.

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