5:30pm Monday 8th March 2010
By Alan Feldberg
WASPS director of rugby Tony Hanks says the final 20 minutes of yesterday’s victory over Gloucester proved his team are maturing this season.
Having led 13-0, Wasps were pegged back to 16-16 and looked there for the taking until their second wind blew Gloucester away.
Hanks said: “Maybe earlier on in the season or through January we’d have let that slip, but that’s the growth of this team.
“We kept attacking. We didn’t sit back and wait. A couple of things didn’t go our way and we made a defensive error which let [Mike] Tindall score a good try.
“But we responded well, kept our composure and came back and I thought the pack in particular, which had given themselves a poor mark last week, came out and really responded.”
It was a valuable win for Wasps, built on a superb first half.
Hanks said: “In the first half we were very good. Tactically we attacked the right channels and put them under pressure.
“We let ourselves down a bit in the second half, but a little bit of David Lemi magic and again the defence that we’re renowned for, holding out at the end, gave us a really important win against a team that’s been playing really good football.”
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