Jonah Holmes was lured away from Wales to go there this season in a deal big enough to rule himself out of further Wales caps (although he was a way down the pecking order)
Don't expect new Wasps to have an easy time and the thought of Tom West going to Trailfinders for "less abrasive" seasons is laughable.
I am not downplaying the quality in the championship at all but my opinion that the levels of physicality Tom West would face there would be far less compared to what his body would be put through in training, in the Prem and in Europe, I really don’t think is a ‘laughable’ suggestion.
Maybe we might just need to find some middle ground here. I have no doubt some time in the championship would be beneficial to West physically in the same way players taking sabbaticals in Japan for example have said it has improved their longevity in the game.