Teams Up - Lima Starts at 15

[Rossm]

15 Lima Sopoaga (38)

14 Marcus Watson (44)

13 Malakai Fekitoa (14)

12 Jimmy Gopperth (95)

11 Josh Bassett (118)

10 Jacob Umaga (20)

9 Dan Robson (c) (114)

1 Ben Harris (58)

2 Tom Cruse (76)

3 Kieran Brookes (34)

4 Charlie Matthews (27)

5 Thibaud Flament (15)

6 Brad Shields (25)

7 Jack Willis (53)

8 Nizaam Carr (55)

Replacements

16 Gabriel Oghre (19)

17 Tom West (23)

18 Biyi Alo (10)

19 Tim Cardall

20 Ben Morris (26)

21 Will Porter (18)

22 Sam Spink (6)

23 Paolo Odogwu (5)

[Neils]

Now that looks good.

[Rossm]

Lima Sopoaga will start at full-back for Wasps against Gloucester Rugby on Saturday in Round 13 of the Gallagher Premiership at Ricoh Arena (kick-off 2.30pm).

The All Black is one of four changes to the starting line-up, with lock Charlie Matthews, hooker Tom Cruse and tighthead-prop Kieran Brookes also given the nod to play the cherry-and-whites.

Lock Tim Cardall is called up to the replacements while Dan Robson captains the side once again, against his former club.

In the back-row, Jack Willis will be looking to build on his 26 Premiership turnovers so far this season – placing him way ahead at the top of the charts – 11 ahead of his nearest competitor.

Lock Tim Cardall is called up to the replacements while Dan Robson captains the side once again, against his former club.

In the back-row, Jack Willis will be looking to build on his 26 Premiership turnovers so far this season – placing him way ahead at the top of the charts – 11 ahead of his nearest competitor.

The Black and Golds have run in 25 tries in their last six league games, picking up five try-bonus points in the process, and Wasps Interim Head Coach Lee Blackett said: “The big thing for us this week is finishing this block off strongly.

“We had a great result against Worcester, it wasn’t the one we wanted at Leicester but we’ve followed that with two five-point performances so we’re happy and confident and it’s all about trying to finish the week off against Gloucester who will be desperate for a win.

“They’re a great team on paper and that’s the danger because you know at some point they’re going to click and you know they’re going to come back.

“Yes, we’re gaining confidence, there’s no doubt about that. It’s about keeping that but also keeping our feet on the ground. We have to keep going game by game.”

England v Wales in the Guinness Six Nations will be shown live on the big screen in the Fan Village following the match.

[HDAWG]

Hoping Sops carries on looking good at FB, if he does he'd be adding to his worth, pushing to be re-signed.

[AKWasp]

Looking at how good he’s been at 15 and the difference in Minozzis performances for Italy on the wing compared to at 15, would love to see if they could both be in our back 3 for the future.

[Rossm]

Gloucester Rugby
15. Tom Marshall; 14. Louis Rees-Zammit, 13. Billy Twelvetrees, 12. Mark Atkinson, 11. Ollie Thorley; 10. Lloyd Evans, 9. Callum Braley; 1. Josh Hohneck, 2. Franco Marais, 3. Fraser Balmain; 4. Alex Craig, 5, Franco Mostert (capt); 6. Jake Polledri, 7. Lewis Ludlow, 8. Ruan Ackermann

Replacements
16. Henry Walker, 17. Alex Seville, 18. Ciaran Knight, 19. Ed Slater, 20. Aaron Hinkley, 21. Charlie Chapman, 22. Danny Cipriani, 23. Tom Seabrook

Fiver on the bench. Simmo unavailable.

[RogerE]

That, to me, is a superb looking team - possibly the best we have managed to put out this season.

(Apologies to Launchbury, Young, Ashley, Kilbrige and Minozzi who would be the best alternatives we have.)

[DGP Wasp]

Will be interesting to see how the Lima to fullback experiment (if we can still call it that) goes from the start.  A slightly different proposition to coming on there when the game is beginning to open up anyway.

Jack Willis's turnover stats are insane.  26 turnovers and next best in the league is 15!!  Glad he's ours.

[Neils]

Interesting Jimmy's comments about how happy Lima has been in training.  Now you could say he has fixed next season somewhere or hopefully with exciting players around him he is clicking.

[welsh wasp]

That's probably the toughest back row we will face - and ours looks better.

[mike909]

Looks a class selection - if we play to ability and recent confidence - we ought to be in with a great chance of another win.

I like the idea of three distributors in the side and hope that we put the fast men into space and carry on playing.

Great back row - equal of anything playing for National teams this weekend and great to see Brad fit and getting game time.

[Neils]

Hope Brad's beard trim is not a Samson event.

[WaspsUpNorth]

I would take our 6 through 13 over EJ's selection.

[mike909]

I would take our 6 through 13 over EJ's selection.

Me too.

One reason Daly isn't on the bench covering all, is because Manu at 13 doesn't distribute.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

I wonder how much Cips being on the bench will upset their style?