Always a Wasp

Octavian Morariu, President of Rugby Europe & Member of International Olympic Committee commented:

Even though I hoped hat these news won’t be confirmed, unfortunately, I can now sadly say that Oleksi Tsibko, former captain of the Ukrainian national team, former president of the Ukrainian Rugby Union (2003-2005) and also Mayor of Smela City (2015-2018) died defending his town and his country.
May he Rest in Peace and be always remembered!

That was a really enjoyable 30 minutes.......great memories! It wasn't long enough to include more of the great characters involved with Wasps at that time but certainly gave a sense of the intensity.
Funnily enough I had completely erased my memory of that home loss to Celtic Warriors even though I was at the match but remember the rest so clearly. Quite how LBND and Volls managed to carry on after that head collision vs Gloucester in the quarter final is still beyond me as we heard the sound from the halfway line....just imagine the reaction nowdays! I also had not realised the family background situation for Trevor before the Munster game.....then he scores the winning try.....what a guy!

This smacks of desperation by mad Eddie.......to even consider playing someone who has been out for so long with a serious injury and who has not yet played a full game back (oh! and who certainly got some knocks last weekend).

I am a fan of what Eliot Stooke has brought to us since joining and would have him ahead of Ewels and Isiekwe never mind a not too/fully fit Launch. I would love to see Eliot's stats against the others as I wonder if he has even been told he is on the England radar.

Has now been reduced to 29 players, I know EJ does a lot of stupid stuff but I’m finding this squad very odd.

The 2nd row is difficult to fathom. He has itoje, which is obvious, then his other choices are Chessum, Ewels and maybe Isiekwe, who may even have to play in the back row.

I know it’s good for us but how the hell is Chessum and Ewels ahead of Stooke.
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I would like England to do well but I’m struggling to see us get pass Scotland, Ireland and France

I fully agree with the above and cannot think of a second row better than Itoje with Stooke at present based on what we have seen though the season so far. Do you think Mad Eddie has clocked the impact Eliot has had and what do you think he has to do to get representative honours?

I really hope I am wrong but if I were a betting man I would be going with Scotland to get the win. Some friends in Jockland are going to the match and tell me the weather forecast is foul!

It was a replacement forward (#16) who got in Jacob's way at the end so I wouldn't blame him for that........however he is just too prone to brain farts that ultimately cost us. Great comeback by the boys.....as usual for Wasps it was so frustrating but ends up with you feeling proud of them.
Allez Wasps!!!

Blimey! That link is all in Russian or something that looks like it? I hope it is a kosher site and is not going to infect us all......I will be trying to watch on it whatever

Just home after an exhausting experience. First, Brentford is a great ground, excellent facilities and a great (in main) bunch of supporters. After sitting in the sun at completely the wrong end for watching the action all 4 of us were, in turns, despairing, frustrated and then completely exhilarated; my daughter even fell over as she jumped up too quickly to celebrate as she got so dizzy in the heat.
I echo the comments above that the first half was one of the worst halves I have seen from Wasps.....and that includes Pertemps Bees! I have to watch the game back but we just didn't seem to be able to defend the quick ball and it looked like the players had never met each other before, particularly in the midfield. In that first half we were saying that Jacob just has to tackle better and Oghre has to hit his jumpers. West played really well while he was on, Shields was his usual inspiring self but seemed to get on the wrong side of the ref too many times, Rowlands was playing well and Dan Robson just continues to be superb.....apart from the knock on when trying to take a quick penalty!
Over drinks at half time we were really down and were just hoping for something in the second half to save some pride...little did we think we would actually win it.
Whatever was said at half time certainly worked and we were so impressed and proud with the boys. All the subs seemed to make a positive impact and we might have won it easier if Jacob had kicked better.
All in all a great day out and fantastic to be watching live rugby again.
Now for the Tigers......we will have to bring the second half performance for the full 80 minutes. Come on boys, you can do it!!