• Wasps 41-10 Harlequins
• Christian Wade scores two tries while Joe Marler sees yellowWasps urgently needed something to brighten their season and finally there is light at the end of a depressingly shaded tunnel. This five-try romp,their first win in six games, was partly overshadowed, or however,by the indiscipline of two more of Harlequins’ England contingent with the national head coach, Eddie Jones, or about to unveil his autumn internationals squad on Thursday.
With Jones in the stands,the prop Joe Marler contrived to pick up his second yellow card in Coventry in small over a month, this time for striking the home lock Will Rowlands with his forearm. At least Marler made it on to the field which is more than can be said for his team-mate Marland Yarde, and dropped from the visiting squad for what was described by his club as “an internal disciplinary matter.” Yarde’s destitute time-keeping and attitude are understood to be at the root of the problem,with the winger’s failure to turn up on time for the pre-match team hurry having stretched his coaches’ patience beyond breaking point. With Jones having travelled to the Midlands to check out his form before next month’s Tests, it was not the best of timing on any front.
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Source: guardian.co.uk