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Young: We have to take the game to Toulon

Wednesday, April 01 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Wasps trained and talked on Tuesday (31st March) ahead of their European Champions Cup quarter-final against Toulon on Sunday (5th April) - director of rugby Dai Young, captain James Haskell, scrum-half Piri Weepu and utility back Andrea Masi look ahead to Wasps' European Cup quarter-final against Toulon.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Dai Young, Wasps director of rugby:

    "Realistically, when you play against a team like Toulon, you've got to worry about yourselves because there's too many strengths and too many threats in their team to single one out. So it's got to be about us taking the game to them. Make no bones about it, if this is a slow, set-piece orientated game, if they're allowed to play at a tempo they're comfortable with, there's only going to be one winner. We have to go, we have to unsettle and we have to play with an intensity and tempo which they're not comfortable with. We have to really take the game to them and that's what we intend to do. There's not much money riding on us but we're going to go out there and give it our best shot."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) James Haskell, Wasps captain:

    "There's no such thing as the perfect game of rugby but I think against Toulon, you have to be spot-on with everything you do. You have to get the attention and I think it's important that you worry more about yourself than try to contain them. You have to go there to want to win. You have to go there to take them on. If you try to contain them and deal with their threat, more often than not you become unstuck. We know they have X-factors across the field."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Piri Weepu, Wasps scrum-half:

    "This is pretty up there in terms of test match quality. You've got a lot of international players in the Toulon team. Lots of internationals and I guess for us you know, we're just trying to make sure we go about what we need to focus on and what we can control. We can't control what they do. We can only control what we do."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Dai Young, Wasps director of rugby (on Nathan Hughes' red card versus Northampton Saints and possible suspension for the Toulon game):

    "We don't believe it was a sending-off. We thought it was very harsh really, totally accidental and we don't believe it was a red card. So, certainly from our point of view, we're hoping that a sending off is sufficient and more than enough because it certainly caused us problems on Friday - we were sitting quite pretty at the time. For us, we don't feel like the player should be penalised anymore, or the club."

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