Bristol vs. Wasps

[Scrumhead]

Bristol: 1. Woolmore 2. Thacker 3. Afoa 4. Attwood 5. Vui 6. Luatua (c) 7. Heenan 8. Hughes 9. Uren 10. Sheedy 11. Fricker 12. Leiua 13. O’Connor 14. Morahan 15. Piutau

16. Capon 17. Lay 18. Lahiff 19. Holmes 20. Hamilton 21. Randall 22. Lloyd 23. Bedlow

Wasps: 1. Harris 2. Taylor 3. Brookes 4. Launchbury (c) 5. Matthews 6. Willis 7. Young 8. Carr 9. Robson 10. Umaga 11. Watson 12. Le Bourgeois 13. Fekitoa 14. Kibirige 15. Minozzi

16. Cruse 17. West 18. Owlett 19. Flament 20. Vailanu 21. Porter 22. Gopperth 23. De Jongh

Both teams will be looking to get back on track so should be a good game.

I’d have Bristol as heavy favourites for the win though.

[fivepointer]

20,000+ crowd expected.
Fancy Bris to bounce back and gain an important win. Interesting to see how Umaga goes for Wasps.

[Raggs]

He's been looking good. Quins however made good yards sending their prop sized 12 down his channel. But then the same would have happened to most 10s. Wasps defence should have adapted better to it as a group.

[twitchy]

I will always tune in for a friday night game at bristol.

[Digby]

He's been looking good. Quins however made good yards sending their prop sized 12 down his channel. But then the same would have happened to most 10s. Wasps defence should have adapted better to it as a group.

I commented on the Smith try that saw Robshaw doing fine work off the ball, but actually I think that all happened from a Quins scrum which Wasps actually dominated. But Wasps so dominated the scrum the Youngs was wheeled around and that left a huge amount of space for Umaga to cover on this inside shoulder. I was left feeling Youngs either needs to cheat and just tell the ref the wheeling scrum got away from him and he wasn't disengaging on purpose, or the Wasps front 3 cannot push up on the shoulders they want and have pay more attention to that gap between the scrum and Umaga's channel. I also wondered was Umaga just making sure he'd get the tackle on his right shoulder. All something to keep an eye on, though I was of course amused a dominant scrum actually got a side into trouble, but then I flashed back to the RWC final and all joy vanished from the world

[jimKRFC]

Don't think Bris deserve the 3 they have so far. Unbelievably sloppy play.

No comment on CPs tackle.

[Mellsblue]

I have never wanted a team to score a try as much as I wanted Briz to score that. Great hands........until the huge knock on.

[Mellsblue]

No way that wasps lineout was straight.

[jimKRFC]

Wasps deserved that, Bristol were too sloppy again. Lam, and the players, needs to sort it out before we get dragged into the relegation fight.

[Mellsblue]

Ol’ Lawrence didn’t even pretend to neutral for the last 10 mins.

[I R Geech]

That was typical of Wasps. Lose to teams that we should bury and beat teams that should pump us. Terrific display.

[fivepointer]

Wasps deserved that, Bristol were too sloppy again. Lam, and the players, needs to sort it out before we get dragged into the relegation fight.

Wasps did deserve to win. They were the better side and a BP win is just what they needed.

Bris were error prone and inaccurate. A few too many of their players went missing and, all round, it wasnt a very good performance. Dont think they are relegation candidates but they must be a lot tidier if they are to maintain a top half of the table presence.