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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Hope?
« on: November 04, 2022, 04:29:46 PM »
Less than the near 100 million quid debt
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: November 04, 2022, 12:38:51 PM »Alfie Barbeary set to turn down Saracens for Premiership rival - should imagine he doesn't want to sit on the bench waiting for something to happen to Billy
Planning on Bath then is he?
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Hope?
« on: November 03, 2022, 12:11:00 PM »At a guess, in order to get promotion, we are going to spend some cash. In order to put a squad together, we will need to have a fair outlay.Totally agree Neils. Two years there - negotiate as lower rent as possible and incur minimal if any capital outlay. Rebuild the team. Try and get promoted. Then look about.
These things seems contradictory.
Explain
I would hazard a guess at us needing to assemble a young core, but also there will be a need for some signings that would not be out of place in the prem.
Problem will be what happens if the 10 or 11 remaining clubs ring-fence.
I honestly cannot see a long term future for Wasps unless they can see a route to the top table.
Yes, pretty much this. We are a failed brand, and if we want a squad capable of getting back to the Premiership we are going to need to pay over the odds to get players who are rightly going to be worried about the security of their wages.
Does the MSC not require primacy of tenure anymore for newly promoted clubs?
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Hope?
« on: November 03, 2022, 10:54:39 AM »Totally agree Neils. Two years there - negotiate as lower rent as possible and incur minimal if any capital outlay. Rebuild the team. Try and get promoted. Then look about.
These things seems contradictory.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: November 03, 2022, 10:51:46 AM »
I'm not sure I get that Alfie joke? It's been a long few weeks!
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: November 01, 2022, 01:14:52 PM »
Shields, Koch and Odogwu are also all medical jokers
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: October 31, 2022, 10:08:06 AM »Fekitoa still a penalty machine
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/malakai-fekitoa-tackle-munster-ulster-275285
He's bloody lucky that was only a yellow. While the Ulster player is dipping, Fekitoa's movement is all upwards. Terrible technique.
Honestly, I think Fekitoa was probably a worse signing than Lima.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Hope?
« on: October 31, 2022, 10:03:29 AM »
I think the possibility of us bouncing back up is probably quite far fetched. These are going to be lean times as if the cupboard was bare before, we're now rebuilding the walls before putting another, home made, cupboard back in.
But we're back to the pre Coventry problem. No stadium, no income. So how that gets sold to the RFU for them to approve the business plan is going to be a challenge.
But we're back to the pre Coventry problem. No stadium, no income. So how that gets sold to the RFU for them to approve the business plan is going to be a challenge.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: October 26, 2022, 05:23:02 PM »
I imagine his appendicitus (and potential appendectomy?) might be limiting Tom at the minute.
I've not heard even a rumour about Umaga which is quite surprising.
I've not heard even a rumour about Umaga which is quite surprising.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« on: October 26, 2022, 12:34:54 PM »
Brad to Perpignan being reported.
As an example of the dire situation the players find themselves in, Launch is currently being offered just 60k for the rest of the season elsewhere.
As an example of the dire situation the players find themselves in, Launch is currently being offered just 60k for the rest of the season elsewhere.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Memories
« on: October 24, 2022, 10:46:09 AM »
Lemi's match winner against Toulouse at AP. Winning the EDF trophy at Twickenham. Gopperth's match winning kick against Exeter. The Valentine's Day Massacre at Sarries. Horrendous Friday nights at Kingston Park when we never seemed to win for four years.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Who might stay?
« on: October 21, 2022, 10:46:31 AM »
Players probably can't be offered deals beyond end-of-season loans due to cap space, but if anyone is offered a longer term deal they are going to take it.
Maybe they would look to come back in a couple of years, but it doesn't look like there'll be anything to come back to.
Maybe they would look to come back in a couple of years, but it doesn't look like there'll be anything to come back to.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Brad & Dan to play for Baa-Baas
« on: October 20, 2022, 10:23:52 PM »
They also get paid if they play
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: BB Breaking - Announcements
« on: October 20, 2022, 05:10:32 PM »
Hard to say it is Covid's fault as Wasps were losing £175,000 a week for seven years
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: BB Breaking - Announcements
« on: October 20, 2022, 12:39:55 PM »
Would anyone want to go into business with - and let's be brutally honest here - a damaged brand? Cov may want to pick up as many players as they can, but why would they dilute their own brand or identity? What could we bring to the table that an owner couldn't just do direct by investing in Coventry?