Always a Wasp

I'd be very surprised to see Robson go too, but he hasn't been with us for long, and despite his obvious success if something isnt gelling for him at the club we wouldn't necessarily know about it until he left.

Not that I think that's likely though.

Tigers just said they were waiting for them to finish playing didn't they?  Wasn't it the Eggchasers guys who then took that to mean a player from Wasps or  Exeter?

So after being greeted with a traditional Haka at the airport the Lions responded by signing a Welsh hymn that only the members of the Welsh team could possibly know. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/40108374

I know I should be supporting our boys in the squad, but I am so incredibly meh about the international stuff right now.

http://www.punditarena.com/rugby/smcmahon/eddie-jones-blunt-christian-wade-england-omission/

It sounds very much like EJ doesn't like Wade and isn't willing to consider working with him.  I've lost a lot of respect for Jones over this.  Whatever his personal feelings the justifications he gives are clearly just as applicable to people he is perfectly willing to pick.

I suspect he won't be expensive.  He was serious quality for a while, but his MCL injury took a big toll on his form.  I'd like to think that being a friend of Smashley's he's not coming for a quick buck, but to be part of a settled squad.

So we're losing Beale, Lieua, and Halai from the backs.  We know we've signed Gaby Lovobalavu who is great, and rumour has it that Juan de Jongh is coming too so I don't think we're too far off the pace for next season assuming the later proves to be true.

But what about the forwards?  I struggle with our props.  I understand that there is always a compromise to be made between powerful scrummagers who can dominate the opposition, and fast mobile forwards who can play the style of rugby we do, but have we slid slightly too far to one side of the compromise?  We're losing Swainston, and JCW has been injured a lot.  Would a big lump of a Tight Head be a good signing?  Is it my imagination or has Moore not quite lived up to his reputation.  I expected an experienced tier 1 international prop to rapidly become our first choice and that honour clearly lies with JCW.  When Citts left the two of them were pretty much equal, and it seems that Moore is not quite up there.  Will that change with another year of settling in?

How about Loose Head?  Mullan is one of the best open play props in the world.  He is freakishly fast, and plays more like another back row.  But I'd say he suffers in the scrum.  Chesty is more solid and stronger, but not as quick.  Do we need another?

As to the back row it's hard to see we need more, Youngyoung, Hughes, Haskell, Thompson, Jones, Reider, with Johnson able to cover too seems like a lot of good players, but we coule conceivably lose 4 of them during the international window leaving us only 1 injury away from not coping.  Do we need more?

What do you think?

Peronally I'd love to see a top level old school prop coming in, probably on the tight side, and another back rower.  But who... 

Well I don't have to buy one after all. 

I'll see what we have for next season before I decide for sure though.