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Gloucester Rugby
15. Jason Woodward; 14. Tom Marshall, 13. Billy Twelvetrees, 12. Mark Atkinson, 11. Ollie Thorley; 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Joe Simpson; 1. Val Rapava Ruskin, 2. Franco Marais, 3. Jamal Ford-Robinson; 4. Ed Slater (capt), 5. Gerbrandt Grobler; 6. Lewis Ludlow, 7. Jaco Kriel, 8. Ruan Ackermann

Replacements
16. Corné Fourie, 17. Josh Hohneck, 18. Fraser Balmain, 19. Freddie Clarke, 20. Ben Morgan, 21. Jake Polledri, 22. Callum Braley, 23. Matt Banahan

Unavailable for selection: Ruan Dreyer, James Hanson, Willi Heinz, Ciaran Knight, Franco Mostert, Henry Trinder, Owen Williams

Wasps team.

15 Marcus Watson (33)

14 Zach Kibirige (4)

13 Malakai Fekitoa (2)

12 Juan de Jongh (52)

11 Josh Bassett (108)

10 Lima Sopoaga (27)

9 Dan Robson (C) (99)

1 Zurabi Zhvania (27)

2 Tommy Taylor (51)

3 Kieran Brookes (22)

4 James Gaskell (109)

5 Thibaud Flament (4)

6 Brad Shields (18)

7 Nizaam Carr (41)

8 Sione Vailanu (5)



Replacements

16 Gabriel Oghre (10)

17 Ben Harris (48)

18 Jeff Toomaga-Allen (4)

19 Tim Cardall (6)

20 Ashley Johnson (189)

21 Sam Wolstenholme (4)

22 Jacob Umaga (11)

23 Rob Miller (105)

Damn, no Willis. OK, so this is a Glos win, then...

Willis in a freak training injury rules him out for Wasps. Glos pick the same stating XV as last week, hoping they look a bit more coherent than 7 dats ago.

Weather likely to be pony, glos may just have the edge in the forwards, that could be the deciding factor.

England can’t buy a quality 12 and Glos and Wasps have three between them. Though, I’ve noted, Wasps are saving theirs for the bigger matches against the likes of LI.

In the rain and the mud it's difficult to see Wasps producing anything close to a winning performance. Matthews being out injured is an issue

Yep. Apparently Willis’ injury is a cut so nothing too serious.

Flament starting is a big call. He looks talented but very lightweight.

Scrumhead wrote:Yep. Apparently Willis’ injury is a cut so nothing too serious.

Flament starting is a big call. He looks talented but very lightweight.

Yup. Gonna be a tough afternoon for Wasps without Willis.

Not so sure about that, Glos looked VERY rusty last week, not a lot of game time for first teamers prior to that. Hoping a weeks additional training makes all the difference, and first home game.

Gotta love a slide in.
No dive, just fell over 6m short of the line, stops sliding about 3m the far side of it!

Which Tyler wrote:Gotta love a slide in.
No dive, just fell over 6m short of the line, stops sliding about 3m the far side of it!

He’ll be picking turf out of his teeth all afternoon it’s proper skiddy out there

Watching this, I need to give Jones some credit for omitting Brad Shields. It took him some time to catch up with us on assessing the guy but he got there in the end.

Bonus point win in poor conditions for Glos. Quite happy.

Pretty good game in the conditions. Glos good value for the win. I do worry for Wasps this season.