London Wasps have been dealt another injury blow with news that winger Tom Varndell will need surgery on a foot complaint keeping him out of the game for up to 12 weeks. Varndell joins a large number of players side-lined at the moment at the Club with Christian Wade, Chris Bell, Tom Rees, John...
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England Under 20s will play their 2012 Six Nations home matches against Wales and Ireland at Aviva Premiership grounds The Twickenham Stoop and Adams Park respectively. Harlequins will play host to England’s first home game of the tournament on Friday, February 24 before London Wasps take the reins for England’s final Six Nations game...
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Rob Hoadley has been appointed to the position of Defence Coach at London Wasps following three seasons as a Coaching Assistant. Hoadley has been acting as the team’s Defence Coach for the past six months and will now make the step-up permanently. A former Wasps player, Hoadley has been with the Club since 2004,...
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London Wasps have handed a two year contract extension to promising young back-row Matt Everard who joined in the summer for the season. The 20-year-old, who was part of the England Junior World Cup bid earlier this year, has impressed in his first few months with the club, having made his debut with a...
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London Wasps have strengthened their second-row options with the signing of lock, Ed O’Donoghue who joins from Leinster. The Irish qualified second-row has already joined up with the squad and begins training immediately. O’Donoghue previously spent two years with Ulster, and has also represented the Queensland Reds and Northampton. Born in London to Irish...
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Long time England stalwart, Joe Worsley has been forced to retire due to a neck injury. The Wasps and England back row forward who won 78 caps for England and played over 300 times for Wasps was also a former British Lion and a Barbarian. Winning just about everything the game has to offer...
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England hooker Steve Thompson will make his debut for London Wasps this weekend having been handed the number two shirt for Friday night’s trip to Worcester in the Aviva Premiership. Thompson, who featured strongly for England at the World Cup, is one of eight changes Director of Rugby Dai Young has made to this...
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Scrum half Shaun Perry is recalled to the starting line-up as Worcester Warriors face London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership at Sixways Stadium on Friday night (kick-off 7.45pm). Former England man Perry has made a stunning recovery from a feared knee injury and will now line-up against Wasps as Warriors make just one change...
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Mike Powell can now add two-time Heineken Cup winners London Wasps to his list of previous clubs following his two game cameo for Dai Young’s side in the LV=Cup. With Wasps in the midst of a second row crisis, with Richard Birkett and Marco Wentzel carrying injuries and Simon Shaw yet to return from...
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Esher are boosted by the return of second row Ian Kench for the away trip to Cornish Pirates on Sunday. After a close encounter with Championship leaders Bristol last weekend at Molesey Road Mike Schmid’s Esher are making progress and despite seven straight league defeats the mood in the camp is buoyant. The Esher...
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