Making new friends and hanging on to old ones is the challenge Wasps face | Dean Ryan

Over 27,000 tickets have been sold for Wasps’ first game at the Ricoh, but the niggling worry is that moving 83 miles north feels like they are being franchised• Toulon threaten legal action against Leicester fansAs this is the season not to be a curmudgeon, I’d like to welcome Wasps to the Midlands. A look at the map suggests that if there are geographical issues to be had they are more to the east of Coventry, but it is an area which is big enough to accommodate another rugby club.Discussions about academies – we at Worcester have spent about a million pounds setting up four, one of them at …