New Faces For Falcons

There's a host of new faces in the Wasps side which starts the Premiership Cup campaign at Falcons on Saturday kick off 3.00. In fact, only Tim Cardall and skipper for the day Sam Wolstenholme have any real first team experience.

Sam will be partnered by Tommy Mathews and there's a host of Academy lads in the team including Ollie Dawkins, centres Rekeiti Ma’asi White and Olly Hartley, who are also debutants, form the centre partnership.

Senior Academy players Mario Pichardie and James Tunney are in the back-row alongside the on-loan James Tyas. 

This week the appearances made by the selected players makes particularly interesting reading:

Wasps:15 Cameron Anderson (3 apperances) 14 Luke Mehson (1) 13 Rekeiti Ma’asi White (0) 12 Olly Hartley (0) 11 Ollie Dawkins (0) 10 Tommy Mathews (1)

9 Sam Wolstenholme (18) (captain) 1 Gordon Reid (0) 2 Michael van Vuuren (2) 3 Biyi Alo (20) 4 Tim Cardall (35) 5 Sebastian de Chaves (1) 6 James Tyas (0) 7 Mario Pichardie (0) 8 James Tunney (1)

Reps: 16 Dan Eckersley (0) 17 Zac Nearchou (2) 18 Pieter Scholtz (3) 19 Alfie Bell (0) 20 Kofi Cripps (0) 21 Ollie Monye (0) 22 Russell Bennett (0) 23 George Simpson (0)

For the record the competition is split into three regional groups with the  winner going through to the semi-final. Thee best runner-up out of all three groups will make up the fourth semi-final place.