Always a Wasp

I believe Wasps would have qualified for Europe by now, maybe more if the team were not ravaged by injury for the first half of the season. 

I found this entry that gives some perspective, if not quite complete;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2022%E2%80%9323_Premiership_Rugby_transfers

I think Wasps are likely to emerge next season in a relatively better place than most other clubs because it feels like they started this process of bringing in academy earlier than most other clubs. It seems to take most championship and academy players a year or two to start to show, obviously some notable exceptions. So I think other teams are in for a couple of years of disruption as Wasps have started to settle.

I really don't think the backs are far off. They were a few sympathetic passes away from beating a French team full of internationals.

"Of the eight semi-finalists across the Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, five are French with only Leinster, in the top competition, and Saracens and Wasps, in the second-tier one, breaking the Top 14 monopoly."

Great to see Irish on the rise, been some great games over the years and some unusual ones. I was remembering that ~40 point draw when the teams were announced.

Regardless of whether it is a good idea or not, Harlequins is a terrible example and nothing like any team going to Yorkshire. What is Simon Massie-Taylor on about? How do we end up with people that think illogically like this in charge of things?

There was me thinking that the backs are starting to look exciting again.

Re-watched the tries, and 3 of ours came about from a Biarritz player shooting up out of the line and Atkinson or Barbeary exploiting the resulting dog-leg. Emphases the importance of a cohesive defensive line and playing heads up in attack.

Of theirs, 2 are from mauls where the Biarritz player breaks off just after our player (perhaps Frost in both cases?) joins the maul as it starts to creak forward (not blaming Frost). I guess after the first time it happened we put Barbeary there but he was slow off the mark and then took the player too high to stop him. Something for the coaches to solve.

Armitage's try for them should not have happened (at least not off first phase), yes he has decent acceleration but a no.8 shouldn't be making it over from that far out when the scrum doesn't wheel a lot, seems Willis hesitated about which way he had gone or something.

I think on one occasion it was Gabby, I wondered if Gabby joined the maul to early and so couldn't make the tackle, but maybe if he hadn't then they would have rumbled over anyway. Perhaps it was earlier in the maul that Biarritz did the damage when setting up and then good awareness from the ball carrier.

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Morning all, best wishes to you and yours. I am in a similar position to you Wiltshire Wasp. Although part of me wonders why I am bothering to try and keep my bugs away from others as nobody else in the house seems to be bothered (not at all miffed that people have decided it isn't important now it comes to my turn to be waited on!).

Looking forward to the game today, team looks strong and has for the most part had time to settle. At the last game Joe looked back to his grinding disruptive best and there were glimpses of the Wasps flair.

Here's to a great performance between two great teams. Come on you Wasps.

Safe travels, if anyone was able to.
Notso