Always a Wasp

I spoke to a person I know who has contacts inside at Worcester. He told me two separate people at Worcester said in past month URC is Wasps first choice, potentially taking a Welsh Franchise but RFU is fighting it to keep in new Prem structure. However some old friends in the Championship are fighting Wasps return there!

Very good news that a stadium and finances are in place.

So the RFU want us in a newly formed Prem 2 but a significant number of Championship clubs will fight that and Wasps want to join the URC but the RFU are fighting that.

Interesting times.

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I only went once, but it was the day of the Valentine Day's massacre!

You lucky bugger! The only time I visited the place was when they beat us easily in a Play Off Semi Final.

I read this morning that Wigglesworth said that Ford was good to go.

Happy Birthday Nelly, we should meet up on our bikes this year at the Touchdown Cafe for a coffee.

Happy Birthday to you to WonkyWasp 

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Possibly Bryony Cleall, she is forwards transition coach at Quins as well as still playing?

Not sure why she would be wearing a Wasps hat given she was only there for about half a season....

Perhaps she's an advocate of the "Once a Wasp, always a Wasp" philosophy

Hang on. Why the need to limit squad numbers? Surely it can?t be on the grounds of cost. After all, reducing the number of teams in the Prem was meant to increase revenue for the remaining clubs. That?s what the promise was. The muppets.

If that's their theory the remaining 9 clubs will be even better off financially with the demise of Falcons and Ealing not allowed to join due to not having a 10K capacity stadium.

I'm against central contracts but if they are introduced they should be limited to players who have a very good chance of playing in the next world cup. Farrell is 32 and whilst I know there have been players older than 36 but they are few and far between and he's no Johnny Sexton.

Farrell isn't even a George Ford let alone a Jonny Sexton.

westwaleswasp is correct about number 1, the players haven't got the sense to learn from their previous infringements so without the Ref "coaching" them the games become a boring penalty fest.

For me there's two things that are restricting Rugby from being a better spectacle and that's Penalty Scrums and High Tackles.

The fact that a team consistently gets penalised for not being as strong as their opponents in the scrum is an aberration and kills games.

The players need to understand once and for all that they need to tackle lower the fact that so many of them are still getting carded for high tackles reinforces my first sentence.