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Posted 911 days ago
As another milestone approaches for the Wasps lock, Rugby World finds out what keeps him smiling.
Tell Simon Shaw that he will become the oldest person to play for England in a World Cup if he makes Martin Johnson’s squad for New Zealand 2011 – he will be 38 when the event kicks off, beating Paul Rendall’s appearance as a 37-year-old…
Posted 1256 days ago
By Paul Morgan, Editor of Rugby World Magazine
Leicester 34 Wasps 8
Wasps have problems, big problems up front as for the second time in a week they have been undone by a far more powerful front row.
This time – against Leicester – it was the turn of Dan Cole (who’ll find himself in the Saxons squad this week), the 22-year-old local…
Posted 1263 days ago
By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
Wasps 6 Newcastle 12
It’s not often a loosehead prop is made man of the match but in Jon Golding Newcastle have discovered a destructive prop and the main reason they beat Wasps to go sixth in the Premiership was their set piece as they pretty-much destroyed Wasps at scrum and lineout in the…
Posted 1296 days ago
By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
The ludicrous postponement of the Sale v Wasps game on Friday shows the Guinness Premiership in a bad light, and some would say as an amateurish league.
The current regulations allow for the referee to call a game off on the day before a match, but on the day for one club to refuse…
