Guinness Premiership : Wasps Team Announced Against Falcons

Wasps team announced for Wednesday's match

Wasps Team Announced Against Falcons

6 May 2008, 12:16 pm

By Nick Betts

London Wasps Director of Rugby Ian McGeechan has made a number of changes to his team as they prepare to take on Newcastle Falcons in Wednesday evening's re-arranged fixture.

There is a reshuffle in the back line, where Riki Flutey moves to full back, Josh Lewsey moves to the wing and Dominic Waldouck comes into the centre. Tom Voyce is rested.

In the forwards, Pat Barnard has won the race to recover from a knee ligament injury and starts alongside Tim Payne and Joe Ward in the front row – Sunday’s front row starters Raphael Ibanez and Tom French are rested and on the bench respectively.

Elsewhere, it’s all change as McGeechan calls on fresh legs after Sunday’s physical encounter with Gloucester. Only Tom Rees survives from Sunday’s starting line up, with George Skivington and Richard Birkett teaming up in the second row and James Haskell and John Hart joining Rees on the back row. Hart takes the captain’s armband in place of rested club captain Lawrence Dallaglio.

A strong bench features four full internationals in the shape of Simon Shaw, Joe Worsley, Jeremy Staunton and Mark Van Gisbergen alongside French, hooker James Buckland and scrum half Mark McMillan.

15 Riki Flutey
14 Paul Sackey
13 Fraser Waters
12 Dominic Waldouck
11 Josh Lewsey
10 Danny Cipriani
9 Eoin Reddan

1 Tim Payne
2 Joe Ward
3 Pat Barnard
4 George Skivington
5 Richard Birkett
6 James Haskell
7 Tom Rees
8 John Hart (c)

16 James Buckland
17 Tom French
18 Simon Shaw
19 Joe Worsley
20 Mark McMillan
21 Jeremy Staunton
22 Mark Van Gisbergen