Our reporters at the Sale game have given us this detailed report:
Sharks to receive, Wasps shank kick off straight to Julien Laharrague (the number 15) he moves out to the left wing nails a pass to Rory Lamont (14) who explodes down the leftwing (2 break aways!), and promptly runs it in for a try, Charlie Hodgson pushes the conversion wide.
At the second kick off Rory Lamont gets the ball out wide on the left flank again and bursts through the front line of defence(1 more break away) but second line took him into touch. At wasps line out they get ball into middle of park but the maul collapses, Richard Wigglesworth (sale 9) manages to ferret ball out of ruck and flips it out to luke Mcallister (13) who charges for the line but is promptly stopped by a foul from Wasps number 11 .
Sharks take the penalty touch and drive into a try with Chabal steamrollering wasps defence (hand off) . Hodgson's kick sliced again!!!! 10-0.
Wasps kick finds a gap in sharks defence and they drive into space , Lee thomas picked up an injury at this point that took him out for the rest of the half.
Hodgson tries took pick up ball to relieve but the attentions of the Wasps number 15 caused him to fail to gather, allowing Wasps number 15 to gather and drive home for a try, which they duly converted.
Wasps recieved the miskick from Hodgson again (having a shocker) and drive forward again as the klaxon goes , late in the Sharks 22 Hodgson gets the ball and trys for touch but slices in field, the forwards seizing their chance drive into the Wasps half sensing the chance of an overtime try ,the Wasps come back at pace but again choke at the 22 Hodgson seeing his chance grabs the ball and runs it out of play to end the half he wasn't chancing a kick this time!
SECOND HALF
Hodgson has a change of boots for the second half! kicks off the game much better , what follows is 20 minutes of middle of the park grinding by both teams forwards till Wiggle worth flips a pass to Oriol Ripol who runs it home for another try, Hodgson is right on the money this time and gets the conversion.
Late into the second half a massive ruck on the Wasps 22 grinds to a halt and collapses as Wigglesworth passes the ball to Chabal the klaxon goes, Chabal drives forward passes to Lamont who explodes through the wasps line (hand off 2 breakaways) only to be stopped 5meters short of the try line, Luke Mcallister picked up the ball moves across the line took the tackle and made the gap for Sebastien Lund to run in between the posts, Hodgson converted the try and it was game over 24-7!
The crowd went wild, the Wasps coach in a brief after match talk to the press was blaming an illness running through the changing room … from here in the stands it looked like he should be blaming a defence that wouldn’t even get a job as a sieve, the holes are too large, and an attack which relies on the other team’s errors to give them any score … things are looking bleak for Wasps unless they can pull something back against Stad in the next match!
Next fixtures:
Wasps entertain Staid in North London
Sale host Saracens up North
Sharks to receive, Wasps shank kick off straight to Julien Laharrague (the number 15) he moves out to the left wing nails a pass to Rory Lamont (14) who explodes down the leftwing (2 break aways!), and promptly runs it in for a try, Charlie Hodgson pushes the conversion wide.
At the second kick off Rory Lamont gets the ball out wide on the left flank again and bursts through the front line of defence(1 more break away) but second line took him into touch. At wasps line out they get ball into middle of park but the maul collapses, Richard Wigglesworth (sale 9) manages to ferret ball out of ruck and flips it out to luke Mcallister (13) who charges for the line but is promptly stopped by a foul from Wasps number 11 .
Sharks take the penalty touch and drive into a try with Chabal steamrollering wasps defence (hand off) . Hodgson's kick sliced again!!!! 10-0.
Wasps kick finds a gap in sharks defence and they drive into space , Lee thomas picked up an injury at this point that took him out for the rest of the half.
Hodgson tries took pick up ball to relieve but the attentions of the Wasps number 15 caused him to fail to gather, allowing Wasps number 15 to gather and drive home for a try, which they duly converted.
Wasps recieved the miskick from Hodgson again (having a shocker) and drive forward again as the klaxon goes , late in the Sharks 22 Hodgson gets the ball and trys for touch but slices in field, the forwards seizing their chance drive into the Wasps half sensing the chance of an overtime try ,the Wasps come back at pace but again choke at the 22 Hodgson seeing his chance grabs the ball and runs it out of play to end the half he wasn't chancing a kick this time!
SECOND HALF
Hodgson has a change of boots for the second half! kicks off the game much better , what follows is 20 minutes of middle of the park grinding by both teams forwards till Wiggle worth flips a pass to Oriol Ripol who runs it home for another try, Hodgson is right on the money this time and gets the conversion.
Late into the second half a massive ruck on the Wasps 22 grinds to a halt and collapses as Wigglesworth passes the ball to Chabal the klaxon goes, Chabal drives forward passes to Lamont who explodes through the wasps line (hand off 2 breakaways) only to be stopped 5meters short of the try line, Luke Mcallister picked up the ball moves across the line took the tackle and made the gap for Sebastien Lund to run in between the posts, Hodgson converted the try and it was game over 24-7!
The crowd went wild, the Wasps coach in a brief after match talk to the press was blaming an illness running through the changing room … from here in the stands it looked like he should be blaming a defence that wouldn’t even get a job as a sieve, the holes are too large, and an attack which relies on the other team’s errors to give them any score … things are looking bleak for Wasps unless they can pull something back against Stad in the next match!
Next fixtures:
Wasps entertain Staid in North London
Sale host Saracens up North
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