Always a Wasp

Thanks Vesp..

There was a lot of debate about who was best.  Chesty seemed to be mroe powerful, but Mullan was supposedly more technical.  I'd be hesitant to rule Mullan out of first choice without seeing how he does when he comes back.  He's played internationally and not let anyone down so he deserves that at least.

Placing Mullan as 1st choice LH is a leap of faith given its been ages since he last played (how long ago was it??) and even when he did last season, some would argue that Si Mc probably held that berth. In terms of scrummaging they are probbly equal but i think chesty offers more in terms of carrying and offloading ability. Ben Harris has also come on leaps and bounds and has scummaged well and is a good ball carrier. Mullan will be 32 at the end of this season when I presume his contract is up. Will Dai renew it?

In terms of the backrow, when our injuries come back we are blessed but at the moment YY has to be 7, he offers something that only Jack Willis seems to be able to do, which is reading the game at rucks and snaffling the ball (without that ability teams seem to be able to go through phase after phase against us). Shields seems to be settling in and might become one of those team unsung heros doing all the dirty hard graft . I'm torn between Nemo and Hughes at 8. They are completely different players. Nemo is quick and finds and steps through gaps and offoads, Hughes is a big lump who ties in defenders. In my view though Hughes hasn't stepped on as a player and that he hasn't added to his game in the way the 2 Vunipola brothers have in improving his handling and offloading ability.

We played some of our best rugby last season with Carr at 8, so controversially, I'll give him the nod there.

In terms of backs, you might as well write names on a pieces of paper and pick them out of a top hat as no-one really is head and shoulders better than anyone else this season (apart from Bertie possibly)

Dai needs follow the Exeter model. Bringing in expensive short term SH players doesn't seem to benefit the club in the medium term. I hate to say it but WLR looks like he's mentally already left the club (perhaps he's jaded after travelling 3 times around the globe playing in the summer and early Autumn for SA?). Some of the new signings (Booj, Neale, Morris, Atkinson) look like they're prepared to run through brick walls for the team in comparison.

I don't know what to make of Daly at the moment. Apart from kicking the occasional long penalty he hasn't really performed this season yet.

I think Bristol will stay up. They've assembled a good squad. As far as I'm aware they don't lose anyone to international duties and have a very rich and passionate backer. I have a feeling it will be one of the big names that will go down this year, and that, along with the potential CVC deal may start the ringfence process

For those of us that have logins for both sites I think we should start promoting this site for the regular DW users (as long as Vesp is ok with that)... and hopefully SamLee (who took to the Sarries forum to keep trolling Wasps) won't find it

The penalty against Brookes was apparently for boring in but hiis shoulders were still square to the try line and I thought it was the Sarries prop he then got twisted but JP read it the other way?

Anyway.. I quick trip over to the Tigers board

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