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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Who are you really?
« on: December 08, 2018, 10:45:41 PM »
I'm David, and started watching Wasps at Sudbury in 1964. I'd play my school rugby match on a Saturday morning, then get on the tube to Sudbury Town, then home to Harrow from there. After leaving school at 18, I played for Wasps colts and then the senior sides, once making the Second XV during a flu epidemic.
After a bad leg break, I gave up playing for a few years, got married, moved to High Wycombe, and took up playing again when my son started in Mini Rugby and I attended RFU coaching courses. He went to the RGS, and played at Twickenham in the Daily Mail Schools Cup U15 final in 1998, a proud moment for me.
I didn't go to many games at the soulless Loftus Road, but when they moved to Adams Park, went to most home games there. The Ricoh is a big chunk of time commitment including travelling time, so I now only do 2 or 3 home games a season, and go to the away games at Sarries and Quins, and TW2 if we're playing there. Subscribing to BT Sport is generally much easier and cheaper.
After a bad leg break, I gave up playing for a few years, got married, moved to High Wycombe, and took up playing again when my son started in Mini Rugby and I attended RFU coaching courses. He went to the RGS, and played at Twickenham in the Daily Mail Schools Cup U15 final in 1998, a proud moment for me.
I didn't go to many games at the soulless Loftus Road, but when they moved to Adams Park, went to most home games there. The Ricoh is a big chunk of time commitment including travelling time, so I now only do 2 or 3 home games a season, and go to the away games at Sarries and Quins, and TW2 if we're playing there. Subscribing to BT Sport is generally much easier and cheaper.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Hard to be disappointed
« on: December 08, 2018, 10:27:07 PM »... I don't subscribe to the prevailing view elsewhere that Lima is actually the devil and gives babies cancer in his spare time, but I do think we have to give the guy the opportunity to show what he can do with a stable platform. He has moments of absolute brilliance and you don't start for the ABs at 10 unless you are truly gifted.
I'm one of those who has expressed disappointment with his overall performances. He showed one flash of brilliance today, when he suddenly decided to accelereate through a gap, and made a lot of yards through the Toulouse defence which should have produced a try. On the debit side, both Toulouse tries came after he missed tackles he should have made.
Our forwards put in a lot of hard graft, particularly both second rows, but there was absolutely no sparkle in the back play, epitomised near the end when WLR passed the ball to nobody in particular, and it rolled harmlessy into touch. Bassett and Neal tried hard with limited opportunities, but most of the time if they got the ball, it was with two or three red shirts on top of them.
We may as well put out second string / academy teams now for the next three Euro fixtures, probably a blessing in disguise that we won't be troubling the quarter finals, and try and keep enough players fit so that we can have a strong finish to the season, and at least make the top 6 of the Prem.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Pecking order?
« on: December 02, 2018, 04:45:41 PM »10. Sops.
The more time he has, the better he looks in my mind.
I'm afraid I can't agree. Sure, he defends well, and having a 10 who can jackal over a tackled opponent and win turnovers is a bonus.
But in attack, he looks very ordinary indeed. He takes the ball too far behind the gain line, and usually just shovels it on to the next player, so we struggle to make, let alone break, the gain line. His kicking from the tee is OK, but his kicking from hand is of variable quality, as is his ability to execute long cut-out passes, unlike an unmentionable person now in a cherry and white shirt.
If the All Blacks once considered him to be the next best option after Beauden Barrett, they must have a dearth of quality 10s in NZ.
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