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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Kent!
« on: October 23, 2023, 06:12:11 PM »
Quite a shock this. Looks to be a good 4-5 years off at least though so it will be 6ways for a while. No mention of where the funding for this comes from. All appears quite a long way away.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Well done England
« on: October 22, 2023, 01:51:28 PM »
Congratulations?!?! Never witnessed such a bizarre game. Played exclusively in the middle third it was a desperately boring kick and jump competition. No line breaks, no attempt at craft. You can then throw in Farrell?s ridiculous football style petulance - if I was O?Keefe I?d have just yellowed him for being such a cretin. Terrible, terrible advert for the game epitomised by the fact we now have teams calling the mark and opting for scrums to milk penalties. Ah, the genius of Erasmus. All we can hope for now is that an extremely watchable All Blacks side dispatches SA and lends a shred of credibility to the trophy.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: British and Irish super league plan discussed and could include South Africa
« on: October 19, 2023, 06:04:18 PM »
Crikey, that?s lots of teams. Could end up with Toulouse in prem 2
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: The Future
« on: October 17, 2023, 08:45:08 PM »
Glad of the update. The competition entity bit reads a bit oddly. And 25-26 as the backstop feels a long way away. But the news on the stadium sounds very good
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ireland v New Zealand Living up it its billing
« on: October 15, 2023, 11:09:54 AM »
Great game. Pleased NZ won and that Barnes reffed the scrum properly although Porter should have been marched back 10 a couple of times. I thought NZ might win the whole thing for a while. In M?ouanga, Ioane, J Barrett, Savea, B Barrett and Lord I think they have the best players in those positions in the world. In terms of Ireland they stuck with Sexton too long and the trio of van der Flier, Doris and Beirne were 10% off it all World Cup for me.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: England
« on: October 11, 2023, 07:37:25 PM »
I think for me England struggling is a means to an end. Ironically that end is England not struggling! Say, for example we squeeze past Fiji, we?ll be contesting a SF which can easily be spun as a good news story despite the fact we?re not very good. And that?s not an opinion, that?s fact based on results. If the narrative that we did ok prevails no change will happen. When you throw into the mix that we?re incredibly dull to watch and somewhat unlikeable in our antics it?s even clearer that a change is required.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: England
« on: October 09, 2023, 06:13:52 PM »
I?m torn as to whether we actually have the players to deploy that could make a difference. Pack wise I don?t see many who I would select over what we have. Willis x 2 should be squad certainties. Ford or Smith at 10 is a must. Of course the big issue is that Farrell must be dropped. So who plays 12? Tuilagi hasn?t had a good game in years for me so it would be Daly/Lawrence at 13. It?s a criminal waste that Malins isn?t playing 15. A back three of him, Arundell and Watson when fit would get some thinking. So I think we do have options - I just can?t see us taking them.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: England
« on: October 08, 2023, 12:50:23 PM »
What struck me most was how the entertainment level rose each time Samoa had the ball and disappeared when England had it. There was a 10 minute period in the second half when we just reset scrum after scrum before Care went over. England are incredibly poor. They are dull into the bargain. Then throw in Farrell and Vunipola whining like children to the ref. We?ll get smashed by anyone a bit more clinical and possibly Fiji. The worst thing of all is I can?t get myself to be disappointed about it due to the way they play and behave.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Which Club is Next for The Chop?
« on: October 05, 2023, 03:07:26 PM »
Saints are a team that normally pack F Gardens out. And they know how to charge. I?d imagine they have a larger portion of their revenue as gate receipts compared to others. So the reduction to 10 teams may hit them harder than most.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Central Contracts incoming
« on: October 03, 2023, 09:14:22 PM »
Where do the near broke RFU find the cash?
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: The Future
« on: October 01, 2023, 12:08:57 PM »OK bite my head off! But just seen a post (as before viewed on a SM phone) which has indicated Wasps have funding approved by the RFU and will start in Prem 2. Nothing more than that.Good news. And surely has to be based at Worcester.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Jersey Reds gone
« on: September 29, 2023, 08:03:40 AM »
The games in serious trouble. How long does it take to come up with a plan? Early comms could have made all the difference to no end of teams. As a slight aside how bleak did the PR photo for the Prem look with two rows of 5 ?
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: England v Chile Match Report
« on: September 26, 2023, 07:30:56 PM »Commentator - England have arrived at the World Cup! Jeez no real concept of the opposition.Come on, be fair, it was Chile not Australia.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: The Future
« on: September 26, 2023, 06:25:10 PM »
Yes, a crumb of news would be better than the current updates via companies house director shuffling.
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Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Wales v Australia and the consequences
« on: September 25, 2023, 03:23:10 PM »
Apparently he?s already attended a zoom interview for the Japan job. So they?ll regress even further. I?ve never seen a team so disorganised and lacking in desire than the Aussies at the moment. Jones?s CV actually has very little on it that he has achieved on his own. He?s a myth.