I may be 100% wrong but I’m doubtful about Mitchell’s impact. His whole stay here has a transient feel to it.
VV - share those concerns - and would add the penalty count to it.
I'm in the same area as Shugs - I'd need to see some evidence of change once he's back in office. I do think it would be harsh to judge on last season when too often the coach driver was bringing his boots and fit players like Stooke starting 22 games in the Prem. It's hard to be objective. Well it is for me!
Whilst I do think there is a view that this season Wasps are "flaky" after half time, I do think it's potentially too easy to suggest it's a club wide issue. Tuesday's game was one which looked a lot like Tigers vs Saints in the Prem. One side with the wheels and able to use quick ball - when they could provide it - and one that absorbed that pressure, didn't panic and bullied their way through to a win. I think we were a tad unlucky on Tues and more in the game than Saints. And when talking about the game on Tues, Austin H - no fan of ours - was quite complementary about our play both on Tuesday and in the Prem and was essentially (to precis rather) suggesting we'd not had the "rub of the green"
So - what would be more of a worry is if we're not clever enough to adapt. in the 2021 6Ns, Wales beat England (in part) by not kicking to touch (avoiding the Eng lineout throw in) and kept the ball in wide channels looking to their "all team" ability over the ball. But this season, we've looked good individually too often not great as a team when under any pressure and seemingly failing to demonstrate on and off field leadership such that 20+ point leads seem marginal....
So we have a week "off" and Saints at home next week. We need to show we can adapt as Oct includes Tigers and Exeter away......which is no-one's idea of gimmies...