Premiership finalists Wasps praise National Leagues for development of players
Talking Rugby Union and ncarugby.com’s Joe Harvey heard from the Wasps Academy after a number of recent graduates with National League experience have propelled the club to the showpiece event at Twickenham.
Ashley Johnson ‘ready for next adventure’ in National Leagues
Former Wasps forward Ashley Johnson is looking forward to his National League challenge after becoming a player-coach at Birmingham Moseley.
“The plan was to put him in a black jersey…I think that’s gone now!”
At the beginning of this season, Jacob Umaga may not have expected international recognition to fall his way. Neither, it seems, did his family as Mum, Michelle, cut short a phone call with the Wasps fly-half when he told her he had been named in England’s squad for the upcoming Six Nations. (Phot
Wasps’ Rob Miller full of praise of time with Tynedale
“I seems a while ago now since I played there. It was my first taste of National League Rugby as I left school,” reflects Rob Miller as he discusses his time with Tynedale.
Stuart: ‘I was eaten alive by some older vets in National One!’
Ali Stokes went along to Wasps to chat to young prop Will Stuart about why his time in the National Leagues has helped shape him into the player he is today.
Wasps’ Tommy Taylor heaps praise on National League Rugby
Wasps and England forward Tommy Taylor spoke exclusively to ncarugby.com about the role the National Leagues played in his journey to the Gallagher Premiership.
Tom Cruse: From National Three North to targeting Premiership glory
Tom Cruse says that his time in the National Leagues “doesn’t seem like two minutes ago” as he continues to perform for Wasps as they aim for a top four finish in the Aviva Premiership.
Oskar Hirskyj-Douglas has achieved a great deal in a short space of time, but he is now taking on a new challenge
The versatile player has begun studying at Loughborough College and he is also involved with the National One and BUCS teams.