Wasps heap more misery on Newcastle

Wasps 35 Newcastle 18

Even a month in, the Aviva Premiership is taking the sort of shape that would
not surprise six months from now, and Wasps’s bonus point victory over
Newcastle confirmed the winners as a credible top six contender and the
losers as relegation candidates.



The hosts, inspired by Ashley Johnson in the back row and with Tom Varndell
picking up two of their four tries, were far from their best – as they were
themselves the first to admit – but Newcastle must already start to focus
much of their attention on their meeting with London Welsh in a fortnight’s
time.


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