December 27, 2024

Wasps 47-24 Bristol: Premiership semi-final – as it happened!

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TEAMS

Wasps welcome back Joe Launchbury and the young backrow revelation of the season, Jack Willis, as the only changes to the team that swatted Exeter aside last weekend. Schoolboy sensation Alfie Barbeary is on the bench.

Bristol welcome back Callum Sheedy at 10 after his first Wales call-up this week, and Andy Uren partners at scrum-half. Captain Steven Luatua returns along with Nathan Hughes in the back row. There is no place, however, for this week’s other Wales squad debutant, Ioan Lloyd, as the excellent Max Malins is moved to fullback.

Wasps: Minozzi; Kibirige, Fekitoa, Gopperth, Bassett; Umaga, Robson; McIntyre, Taylor, Brookes, Launchbury (capt), Rowlands, J Willis, Young, Shields.

Replacements: Oghre, West, Alo, Gaskell, Barbeary, T Willis, Vellacott, Le Bourgeois.

Bristol: Malins; Morahan, Radradra, S Piutau, O’Conor; Sheedy, Uren; Woolmore, Thacker, Afoa, Joyce, Vui, Luatua (capt), Earl, Hughes.

Replacements: Kloska, Y Thomas, Sinckler, Holmes, D Thomas, Randall, Bedlow, Leiua.

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