Always a Wasp

Fans of other clubs which I have spoken to have sympathy (the more intelligent understand that their club might be next!) but don't see why Wasps, of the others, should get any kind of special treatment, especially if it means established Champ clubs get relegated because they don't fit the franchise system, or don't want to. No one wants a franchise system where clubs get promoted or relegated on anything other than playing performance.

Cars and most other vehicles are not engineered to run at or below 20 mph.

I don't think is correct any more. If you place your car in 3rd and drive at 20mph the engine will be virtually idling & you will be burning almost no fuel. There's less accelerating up to speed & braking again so less omissions & less wear & tear on your vehicle.

Large chunks of London are now 20 mph zones. TFL have introduced it on selected roads & several boroughs have put blanket speed limits in place.

Apparently, "monitoring of the 20mph schemes in London shows that since they were introduced, the number of collisions has reduced by 25% (from 406 to 304), and collisions resulting in death or serious injury have also reduced by 25% (from 94 to 71), demonstrating the huge impact of lowering speeds across London."

But that's TFL's own figures so should be suitably doubted.
I have to say that once you get used to it, its actually more relaxing and a lot of the time roads are so busy you can't do much over 20 if you wanted to.

I thought he was still out. I have nothing against Ford if he has a decent game plan to follow, but was hoping a absence of Ford & Farrell would force a more exciting game plan, never mind 

Rob Miller was doing some form of sports marketing but can't find much about it now.

I do wonder if some of the guys who seem to be flourishing, Maasi-White, Opoku-Fordour, Feyi-Waboso, Fisilau, Miller-Mills, were still at Wasps how much actual game time would they have got?
Fisilau for example, would he really have forced his way into a back row of Brad, Jack, Tom, Alfie, Nizaam ?
Dont think Feyi-Waboso got a prem start for Wasps did he?
Miller-Mills was always a 3rd or 4th choice at Wasps now he's in the Scotland squad.

Interesting articles.
Also a centure capital firm has just taken over Cardiff.
You would wonder what such a firm would want with a Welsh Rugby side given that the WRFU seems to have presided over an even bigger mess than the RFU.
But as has been said about CVC, they don't do this for fun or ego's its about money & they think they can make a profit on it.
If others can be convinced maybe the investment in the game can be found to move things forward? Too late for Wasps, Warriors & Irish (Jersey might be able to recover IMO).

Just seen that Harry Mallinder is also joining the gateway, he is looking at a kicker/punter position.

What happened to him at Saints? He was the next big thing, but I see he ended up in Japan. That obviously didnt work out.
Would be sad if a player that talented ended up  "just" kicking in the NFL.

That said, he's probably more likely to succeed as a kicker than LRZ. Far less complexity involved

I seem to remember that he got very little playing time, and I felt he was being overlooked quite often? 

well the stats show that in the 2018/19 season, the one where Wade left, he started every game & played the full 80 in all of them.

The season before he started in 25 out of 28 (only not playing at all in one game) games & he averaged 74 minutes playing time.

Now he may have fallen out of love with rugby & lack of England selection may have been a factor but as far as Wasps selection went, he was playing plenty.