Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
Piutau suits Wasps needs.
Wasps have excellent attacking players in Daly and Wade, but lacked hard runners in the backs last season step up Halai and Piutau, both of whom are quick and strong runners.
Trouble with Beale as a signing for Wasps IMO is he isn't a strong runner, he is another silky runner and a backline of Cips, Daly, Wade and Beale whilst on paper and prob on hard ground but might stuggle against a blitz defence on a wet day without a Piutau figure.
Wasps have excellent attacking players in Daly and Wade, but lacked hard runners in the backs last season step up Halai and Piutau, both of whom are quick and strong runners.
Trouble with Beale as a signing for Wasps IMO is he isn't a strong runner, he is another silky runner and a backline of Cips, Daly, Wade and Beale whilst on paper and prob on hard ground but might stuggle against a blitz defence on a wet day without a Piutau figure.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
I'm hoping that our close-season signings will see the Thacker to 7 experiment restarted. He looks like such an intelligent player and like someone that you really want on the pitch, but he just isn't big enough to play hooker at a high level.Tigersman wrote:Think if Youngs was starting and not Thacker Wasps would of struggled a fair bit TBH.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
Agree. But Leuiua will still be with us next year so could still offer that. Macken is also a powerful runner.Tigersman wrote:Piutau suits Wasps needs.
Wasps have excellent attacking players in Daly and Wade, but lacked hard runners in the backs last season step up Halai and Piutau, both of whom are quick and strong runners.
Trouble with Beale as a signing for Wasps IMO is he isn't a strong runner, he is another silky runner and a backline of Cips, Daly, Wade and Beale whilst on paper and prob on hard ground but might stuggle against a blitz defence on a wet day without a Piutau figure.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.Len wrote:I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
no, but they might have kept Piutau in NZ and playing now for the AB's...Puja wrote:Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.Len wrote:I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
He'd already signed for Ulster long before the selection was made. I suspected at the time that it was one reason why he wasn't selected.Banquo wrote:no, but they might have kept Piutau in NZ and playing now for the AB's...Puja wrote:Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.Len wrote:I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
ah ok, guess we'll never know, but he's a helluva player.Puja wrote:He'd already signed for Ulster long before the selection was made. I suspected at the time that it was one reason why he wasn't selected.Banquo wrote:no, but they might have kept Piutau in NZ and playing now for the AB's...Puja wrote:
Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
We may have won even easier. Would have done my heart a world of good. Pretty impressive to leave talent like that behind a still win though.Puja wrote:Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.Len wrote:I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
I know what you mean. I remember the clamour when Lancaster left out Luther Burrell.Len wrote:We may have won even easier. Would have done my heart a world of good. Pretty impressive to leave talent like that behind a still win though.Puja wrote:Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.Len wrote:I wish we'd taken Piutau to the RWC. We didn't really use Naholo.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
Surprised his missus didn't dump him after he failed to make the squad.Mellsblue wrote:I know what you mean. I remember the clamour when Lancaster left out Luther Burrell.Len wrote:We may have won even easier. Would have done my heart a world of good. Pretty impressive to leave talent like that behind a still win though.Puja wrote:
Such a shame - who knows how far you might have gone in the tournament if you hadn't made that mistake.
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Re: Wasps V Leicester Tigers 1:45PM (BT Sport)
Failed? Oh no no sir, he was robbed. Robbed by [redacted].Len wrote:Surprised his missus didn't dump him after he failed to make the squad.Mellsblue wrote:I know what you mean. I remember the clamour when Lancaster left out Luther Burrell.Len wrote:
We may have won even easier. Would have done my heart a world of good. Pretty impressive to leave talent like that behind a still win though.
I read it in a paper, so it must be true.
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