Playing and coaching staff rumours

[wasps]

Given the news today, I thought I'd start this to keep track of rumours of coding / playing staff.


I can't believe that we'll see any international level players.
Or income is going to be minimal, therefore wage bill needs to be minimal.




I think there was a rumour the other day about Cipriani playing for next season


Has there been any others?

[Neils]

No

[Shugs]

wasps - what a welcome thread after recent months! The construction of this squad is going to be fascinating. I’ve heard no rumours re previous squad members and our cloth will obviously have to be cut accordingly. Based on absolutely nothing at all I’d be ecstatic to see a squad based around a core of say Harris, Cruse, Millar-Mills, Vukasinovic, Morris, Wolstenholme, Spink, Bacon, Kibirige.

[Neils]

That's not a bad start but let's start with a coach or two.

[Skippy]

Perhaps £5 will be up for a player/coach role.

Loving the fact that we get to have this conversation.

[AndyL]

All I want to say is isnt it nice to be talking about who could be playing for us. It feels almost like normal. Thank you legends.

[Neils]

All I want to say is isnt it nice to be talking about who could be playing for us. It feels almost like normal. Thank you legends.

+1

[HDAWG]

Torn on who we'd sign, especially given ambiguity of state of the leagues, specifically promotion and relegation.

Would players formally of this parish come back? A few I think would, but at expense of international game time assuming we're in the championship? Probably not.

I could see a fair few academy lads and such come back, but fringe international players no. Really interested how we bounce back.

[Vespula Vulgaris]

I think the ridiculously low offers a lot of players got may play in our favour. Especially as they get to work out of the EPIC.  If the money is there it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that we could be looking at promotion again after only one season.

[Neils]

We will probably never know in detail but the new owners will need a fair wack of money to get a team up and running. The need to attract players is great so £ will need to be spent.
Might become clearer after the NY. I would hope once clear of RFU's requirements there might be an announcement to fans after all they will need to attract us!

[Shugs]

That's not a bad start but let's start with a coach or two.

Fair point. Fowkes? Johnson? Gopperth? I’d be surprised if the incumbent isn’t already known.

[Neils]

I said Neil Fowkes on another thread because I haven't seen him pop up anywhere plus good Championship knowledge.  Gopps a good call. Also Fiver might be a good dual player/coach (not defence or tackling).

[wasps]

If we're aiming for promotion, we'd have to stick to a £5m salary cap, and look for a bigger ground for next season.


I'd be happy with getting some grounding and work on becoming competitive. Being one of the best teams in the championship will not be easy when you're starting from scratch.


Someone previously said that some of the championship clubs work to a wage bill of up to £2m.


A 30 man squad, £2m... Average £65k per player.
As a rough stab in the dark, if that's the finances we'd be working with, then the highest paid player would probably be around £100k, and there won't be more than 1 or 2 of them


If that £2m has to cover coaching as well, then things drop down a little.
They'll also drop even lower of we need nearer to 40 players in the squad

[backdoc]

Ashley Johnson please. Not only because he will do a great job, but we owe him. And that is what this must be about.

[wasps]

Ashley Johnson please. Not only because he will do a great job, but we owe him. And that is what this must be about.

I signed back in to say exactly this.
I don't know if he'd want to be a player, but I'd be happy with him as a coach.
He's also a link to Wasps of the last 10 years.


It's a shame that Simmo has just announced his retirement. A season or 2 with him at 9 would make it feel like Wasps