Rugby will be given the opportunity to come together to mourn the passing of Her Majesty after the RFU decided that games can go-ahead this weekend. There will be a one-minute silence before Gloucester and Wasps kick off at Kingsholm on Sunday and both teams will be wearing black armbands. It will be a sombre start to the season but a respectful and comforting one.
Both new signings - John Ryan and Kiran McDonald - will make their debuts in a side which will be led by a fit again Joe Launchbury with Jack Willis back from the England training camp down under.
Some excitement too about the pre-seaon form of full back Matteo Minozzi.
Gloucester haven't added many to their line-up during thessummer but look to be strengthening their pack with the arrival of No 8 Zach Mercer from Montepllier.
Wasps: 1 Robin Hislop 2 Tom Cruse 3 John Ryan 4 Joe Launchbury (Capt.) 5 Kiran McDonald 6 Tom Willis 7 Brad Shields 8 Alfie Barbeary 9 Dan Robson 10 Charlie Atkinson 11 Josh Bassett 12 Burger Odendaal 13 Sam Spink 14 Zach Kibirige 15 Matteo Minozzi
Reps: Dan Frost, Elliot Millar-Mills, Biyi Alo, Ben Morris, Jack Willis, Will Porter, Ryan Mills, Ali Crossdale
Game Goes Ahead
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Date: 09/09/2022 13:22
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15. Lloyd Evans*
14. Louis Rees-Zammit*
13. Chris Harris
12. Mark Atkinson
11. Ollie Thorley*
10. Adam Hastings
9. Charlie Chapman*
1. Harry Elrington
2. Jack Singleton
3. Fraser Balmain
4. Freddie Clarke*
5. Alex Craig*
6. Ruan Ackermann (c)
7. Harry Taylor*
8. Ben Morgan
16. Santiago Socino
17. Val Rapava-Ruskin
18. Jamal Ford-Robinson
19. Cameron Jordan*
20. Albert Tuisue
21. Ben Meehan
22. Billy Twelvetrees
23. Kyle Moyle
Happy enough with that side, although we desperately need one of our injured Looseheads back. Plus I always prefer Tom at 8. Maybe him and Alfie will swap according to whether it’s attacking or defensive scrums. Hopeful MM can nail down the 15 shirt.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2022:09:11:08:35:31 by DuncanS.
Got what we deserved. Cannot grumble about the result because it was well earnt by us. There are positives from the game, MacDonald, Atkinson, Odendaal and a few others stood up. But we cannot hide from the drop off in performance when LRZ ran that try in. Premiership players and teams cannot do that and expect to be competitive.
On a positive note, Charlie looked lively and the 3 new signings also played well. Before KO I’d guess a LBP at Kingsholm would have been not the end of the world BUT 21 points up…!
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