Wasps vs Bristol, Sunday 13th (12.30)

[jimKRFC]

Bristol Bears team:

15. Ioan Lloyd; 14. Niyi Adeolokun, 13. Piers O’Conor, 12. Alapati Leiua, 11. Jack Bates, 10. Max Malins, 9. Chris Cook; 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Will Capon, 3. Keiron Assiratti, 4. Ed Holmes, 5. Joe Joyce, 6. James Dun, 7. Dan Thomas, 8. Jake Heenan (c).

Subs: 16. Bryan Byrne, 17. Peter McCabe, 18. John Afoa, 19. John Hawkins, 20. Mitch Eadie, 21. Tom Kessell, 22. Harry Ascherl, 23. Charlie Powell.

12 changes, 9 academy graduates, first starts for Ioan Lloyd, Assiratti and Niyi - lots going on with the team but missing all the big guns.

[jimKRFC]

Wasps side:
15 Matteo Minozzi (14)
14 Zach Kibirige (21)
13 Malakai Fekitoa (19)
12 Jimmy Gopperth (101)
11 Josh Bassett (122)
10 Jacob Umaga (26)
9 Dan Robson (119)

1 Ben Harris (62)
2 Tom Cruse (81)
3 Kieran Brookes (37)
4 Joe Launchbury (c) (149)
5 Will Rowlands (89)
6 Brad Shields (30)
7 Jack Willis (58)
8 Tom Willis (17)

Replacements

16 Gabriel Oghre (24)
17 Tom West (29)
18 Jeff Toomaga-Allen (17)
19 James Gaskell (116)
20 Thomas Young (115)
21 Ben Vellacott (5)
22 Ryan Mills (5)
23 Marcus Watson (48)

Wasps start as favourites for me.

[fivepointer]

Looks a mismatch on paper. Maybe it wont pan out that way on the day but Wasps look far too strong.

[Raggs]

Can't argue with Wasps starting as favourites, but I don't think it's going to be all one sided.

[Digby]

Unless Chris Cook wrangles a very unexpected performance out of that side it's hard to even see what the entry points are for Brizzle

[Raggs]

Wasps currently beating the clock at 26-0 and 20 minutes in. Just turned over a promising Bristol attack.

[Beasties]

It's odd watching without the canned "crowd noise". Very much like a training game, especially looking at the current scoreline.

[fivepointer]

Panned out pretty much as expected. Wasps got a try BP within the first quarter. They were all round far to strong.
To their credit, Bris did come back a bit and at least got their own try BP. One of them a nice solo effort from Malins.

[padprop]

Malins annoyingly good as a wasps fan, almost single-handedly made the game competitive at one point. Should get in a look in at england training camp imo. Be a great 15 or number 22

[Mikey Brown]

Interesting. I thought he was a full-time 15 now.

[TheNomad]

Malins is such a talent, but I think it would be helpful for him to settle on a position. Looks great at both 10 and 15, though I have no idea what his place kicking is like (I suspect therefore it's not very good).

Reminds me of Slade in a sense

[jimKRFC]

Glad I decided to ignore this game! My positives are:
Could have been worse
Got 1 pt
Won the last 60 minutes