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Wasps team to face Leinster Rugby at RDS Arena on Friday 12 October (kick-off 7:45pm)

15 Willie Le Roux
14 Josh Bassett
13 Juan de Jongh
12 Michael Le Bourgeois
11 Elliot Daly (C)
10 Lima Sopoaga
9 Joe Simpson
1 Zurabi Zhvania
2 Tommy Taylor
3 Kieran Brookes
4 Will Rowlands
5 James Gaskell
6 Brad Shields
7 Thomas Young
8 Nizaam Carr
Replacements
16 Tom Cruse
17 Ben Harris
18 Will Stuart
19 Kearnan Myall
20 Ashley Johnson
21 Craig Hampson
22 Billy Searle
23 Rob Miller

Booj!!!

Having your captain on the wing is just not on.

The Leinster team looks bloody strong!!!!!!!! And then some!!!

Man for man I don’t know if even a full loaded Saracens or Racing/Clermont match up evenly with Leinster.

Leinster have 27 internationals in their squad and apparently not one of them is currently injured. When you have that amount of talent and you’re able to prepare like they do...

Yeah it's going to be a rough night for wasps.

Jamie Heaslip on tv the other day saying, with a straight face, that Leinster don’t have the budget of the English and French clubs! Delusional.

It does amuse me when the Irish say that with a straight face.

It's sort of true but in being so specific to Leinster it ignores local club and union payments

Digby wrote:It's sort of true but in being so specific to Leinster it ignores local club and union payments

And doesn't it ignore central contracts?

Epaminondas Pules wrote:

Digby wrote:It's sort of true but in being so specific to Leinster it ignores local club and union payments

And doesn't it ignore central contracts?

I don't know if all union payments are entailed within central contracts, though I assume all central contracts are detailed within union payments

It’s basically Ireland vs. an under strength Wasps side.

Strong enough Leinster side to leave O’Brien and Fardy on the bench.

Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Ireland vs wasps A....

Fiendishly difficult game for Wasps, even if they were at full strength i'd expect them to struggle.
Playing your toughest pool game first may be no bad thing. If they can get something its a huge bonus, but if not they have Bath at home next and then a break until December before the Toulouse double header.

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Conditions look... iffy

Digby wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Conditions look... iffy

Dai Youngs’ prayers might be answered.

Mellsblue wrote:

Digby wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Conditions look... iffy

Dai Youngs’ prayers might be answered.

Brookes and Gaskell both have it in them to deliver highly physical performances, both if perhaps for different reasons struggle to do so consistently. Without Launch this Wasps side really needs a massive game from those two against a side with Fardy only on the bench, it's possible but not likely

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Why does this phrase grate on me so much? It just doesn’t seem right.

Mikey Brown wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Why does this phrase grate on me so much? It just doesn’t seem right.

Because you have to watch Quins and Scotland?

Digby wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Just realised this is on this evening. What a way to start the comp, with two of the most attacking teams in the tournament.

Why does this phrase grate on me so much? It just doesn’t seem right.

Because you have to watch Quins and Scotland?

Because it’s all about catching high balls, dying with the ball and looking angry.

Aside from that obviously not being the point I was making, the Scotland attack is generally quite fun to watch. I’d call them quite attack-oriented, I don’t think I’d call them attacking.

Just like I wouldn’t describe a team as “very defending”.

Mikey Brown wrote:Aside from that obviously not being the point I was making, the Scotland attack is generally quite fun to watch. I’d call them quite attack-oriented, I don’t think I’d call them attacking.

Just like I wouldn’t describe a team as “very defending”.

I'm struggling to worry much about a team being labeled most attacking even before it's a world accepting a team being quite attack oriented

Rowlands can be very physical too.

A fair few of the other members of the pack aren't shrinking violets, but not necessarily truck it up in the mud sorts as much.

Rowlands is more consistent than Gaskell or Brookes, it's not quite Taylor's forte, thus it's to Gaskell and Brookes I look,especially Gaskell who could look the best player on the park