• Wasps miss 17 tackles in opening 50 minutes
Having forgotten how to win, Wasps are targeting a coach who has a scant memory of what defeat tastes like, Shaun Edwards. Their ninth defeat in 12 league matches against opponents who started as if they had slept through their alarm call showed how brittle the 2017 beaten finalists have become.
After taking an 11-0 lead in the opening 18 minutes, Wasps collapsed as readily as a wonky deck-chair on a blustery pier. Edwards was part of their management team in the 2000s when they were, for a while, the leading club in Europe and under him this season Wales have developed the hardest defence to break down in international rugby.
Written by Paul Rees at Kingsholm
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/23/gloucester-wasps-premiership-match-report under the title “Gloucester breeze to victory as Wasps need for Shaun Edwards is shown”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
